Alumni

Within the framework of the IMPRS, PhD students from both Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics (MPI) have successfully completed their doctoral studies.

Congratulations to

2026

Image of Dr. rer. nat. Lukas Fischer

Dr. rer. nat. Lukas Fischer

MPI (NISE department)
Lukas defended his thesis successfully in January 2026.
Title: "Magnetic Domain Wall Motion and Switching under Microwave Excitation"

2025

Image of Dr. rer. nat. Souvik Das

Dr. rer. nat. Souvik Das

MPI (NISE department)
Souvik defended his thesis successfully in December 2025.
Title: "Probing Topological States of Matter using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy"
Image of Dr. rer. nat. Ajesh Kollakuzhiyil Gopi

Dr. rer. nat. Ajesh Kollakuzhiyil Gopi

MPI (NISE department)
Ajesh defended his thesis successfully in December 2025.
Title: "Complex Magnetism in 2D Van der Waals Magnets"
Image of Dr.-Ing. Guanmin Li

Dr.-Ing. Guanmin Li

MPI (NISE department)
Guanmin defended his thesis successfully in September 2025.
Title: "Oscillatory Computational Networks based on Coupled VO2 Oscillators via Tunable Thermal Triggering"
Image of Dr. rer. nat. Atul Pandey

Dr. rer. nat. Atul Pandey

MPI (NISE department)
Atul defended his thesis successfully in July 2025.
Title: "Opto-electrical approach to visualize magnetic nanostructures of chiral antiferromagnets"

2024

Image of Dr. rer. nat. Robin Neumann

Dr. rer. nat. Robin Neumann

MLU (Prof. Ingrid Mertig)
Robin defended his thesis successfully in October 2024.
Title: "Theoretical Prediction for Probing Magnon Topology"
Image of Dr. re. nat. Jingrong Ji

Dr. re. nat. Jingrong Ji

MPI (NISE department)
Jingrong defended her thesis successfully in July 2024.
Title: "Molecular beam epitaxial growth and scanning tunneling microscopy characterization and manipulation of monolayers and heterostructures of two-dimensional ferroelectrics"
Image of Dr. rer. nat. Ke Gu

Dr. rer. nat. Ke Gu

MPI (NISE department)
Ke defended his thesis successfully in July 2024.
Title: "Investigation of novel freestanding heterostructures"
Image of Dr. rer. nat. Pranava Keerthi Sivakumar

Dr. rer. nat. Pranava Keerthi Sivakumar

MPI (NISE department)
Pranava defended his thesis successfully in May 2024.
Title: "Physics of Josephson diodes formed from 1T-transition metal dichalcogenides"
Image of Dr. rer. nat. Berthold Rimmler

Dr. rer. nat. Berthold Rimmler

MPI (NISE department)
Berthold defended his thesis successfully in January 2024.
Title: “Non-collinear magnetism, hidden symmetry lowering and magneto-transport effects in antiperovskite nitrides”

2023

Image of Dr. rer. nat. Björn Niedzielski

Dr. rer. nat. Björn Niedzielski

MLU (Prof. Jamal Berakdar)
Björn defended his thesis successfully in November 2023.
Title: "Vortex states in superconducing/ferromagnetic hybrid systems"
Image of Dr.-Ing. André Farinha

Dr.-Ing. André Farinha

MPI (NISE department)
André defended his thesis successfully in June 2023.
Title: “Emergent Magnetic Effects in Spintronic Devices with 3D Chiral Geometries”
Image of Dr. rer. nat. Mohamed Amine Wahada

Dr. rer. nat. Mohamed Amine Wahada

MPI (NISE department)
Amine defended his thesis successfully in June 2023.
Title: "Ultrafast spin transport through oxide and nitride barriers measured by inverse Spin Hall effect"

2022

Image of Dr. rer. nat. Peng Wang

Dr. rer. nat. Peng Wang

MPI (NISE department)
Peng defended his thesis successfully in November 2022.
Title: "Novel spin Hall effect materials and artificially engineered magnetic thin film heterostructures for energy-efficient spintronic memories"

2021

Image of Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Schäffer

Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Schäffer

MLU (Prof. Jamal Berakdar)
Alexander defended his thesis successfully in December 2021.
Title: “Control of topologically non-trivial spin excitations”
Image of Dr.-Ing. Kai-Uwe Demasius

Dr.-Ing. Kai-Uwe Demasius

MPI (NISE department)
Kai-Uwe defended his thesis successfully in October 2021.
Title: “Highly Energy Efficient Neuromorphic Computing Based on Memcapacitive Devices”
Image of Dr. rer. nat. Jue Huang

Dr. rer. nat. Jue Huang

MPI (NISE department)
Jue defended her thesis successfully in June 2021.
Title: “Epitaxial growth and charge-to-spin conversion studies of Bi2Te3 topological insulator”
Image of Dr. rer. nat. Tianping Ma

Dr. rer. nat. Tianping Ma

MPI (NISE department)
Tianping defended his thesis successfully in March 2021.
Title: “Magnetic antiskyrmions in tetragonal Heusler materials with D-2d structure”
Image of Dr. rer. nat. Abhay Kant Srivastava

Dr. rer. nat. Abhay Kant Srivastava

MPI (NISE department)
Abhay Kant defended his thesis successfully in January 2021.
Title: “Investigations of Anti-Skyrmions and Néel Skyrmions using Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscopy”

2020

Image of Dr. rer. nat. Shuo-Ying Yang

Dr. rer. nat. Shuo-Ying Yang

MPI (NISE department)
Shuoying defended her thesis successfully in October 2020.
Title: “In search of extraordinary Hall effects in topological semimetals”
Image of Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Hauser

Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Hauser

MLU (Prof. Georg Schmidt)
Christoph defended his thesis successfully in June 2020.
Title: “Ferromagnetische Resonanz und Spinpumpen in Oxiden”
Image of Dr. rer. nat. Börge Göbel

Dr. rer. nat. Börge Göbel

MLU (Prof. Ingrid Mertig)
Börge defended his thesis successfully in January 2020.
Title: “Emergent electrodynamics in non-collinear spin textures”

2019

Image of Dr. rer. nat. Robin Bläsing

Dr. rer. nat. Robin Bläsing

MPI (NISE department)
Robin defended his thesis successfully in December 2019.
Title: “Highly Efficient Domain Wall Motion in Ferrimagnetic Bi-layer Systems at the Angular Momentum Compensation Temperature”
Image of Dr. rer. nat. Annika Johansson

Dr. rer. nat. Annika Johansson

MLU (Prof. Ingrid Mertig)
Annika defended her thesis successfully in April 2019.
Title: “Spin-orbit driven transport: Edelstein effect and chiral anomaly”

Former members

Image of Anirban Chakraborty

Anirban Chakraborty

MPI of Microstructure Physics
Research Topic: Van der waals heterostructures
Methods/Instruments: device fabrication, electrical measurements (PPMS, Bluefors), MFM
Image of Pedram Bassirian

Pedram Bassirian

Joint PhD - University of Oxford/MPGC-QM
Research Topic: Investigation of novel skyrmion systems: Study of new sample designs and material compositions with a key focus on the applicability for spintronics.
Methods/Instruments: MBE (Phosphorous/Arsenic), XRD, XPS, SQUID, Micromagnetic Simulations (OOMMF, mumax3), XMCD, STXM
Image of Matthias Rohmer

Matthias Rohmer

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Research Topic: Photo-switchabel helical chirality to modulate the CISS effect
Methods/Instruments: organic synthesis, CD spectroscopy, IR spectroscopy, MALDI TOF Mass Spectrometry
Image of Zhong Wang

Zhong Wang

MPI of Microstructure Physics
Research Topic: VO2 devices for reservoir computing
Methods/Instruments: Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), lithography, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
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