Former OPTIMAS Ph.D. student receives national award for solid state physics

Dr. Helmut Schultheiß, who earned his Ph.D. in the OPTIMAS research group of Burkard Hillebrands, will be awarded the Walter Schottky Prize 2017 of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, DPG). He receives this prestigious award for his fundamental research about spin wave propagation in nano structures and their application in new functional devices for transport and logic processing of information. The awardee started this research in the field of magnonics when doing his Ph.D. in Kaiserslautern. After doing a postdoc at Argonne National Laboratory Helmut Schultheiß is now heading an Emmy Noether research group at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.

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