Graduate School of Excellence awards Visiting Professorship to longstanding Cooperation Partner of TU Kaiserslautern
The Graduate School of Excellence Materials Science in Mainz (MAINZ) has awarded two scientists from the United States with the MAINZ Visiting Professorship 2014. Prof. Dr. Stephan Link from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and Prof. Dr. Andrei Slavin from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, received the prestigious award. With the visiting professorship foreign scientists are invited to the sites of the Graduate School in Mainz and Kaiserslautern in order to perform part of their research here and to work together with the PhD students of MAINZ. The visiting professorship is awarded annually to up to two recipients. The awardees will spend within three years a total of up to twelve months at MAINZ. They participate through lectures, workshops and other events at the doctoral program of the Graduate School and thus provide important new stimuli to the MAINZ doctoral training and vice versa establish networking between MAINZ and their home universities.
Prof. Dr. Andrei Slavin is one of the leading theorists in the field of dynamic properties of magnetic systems. His interest is in the understanding of linear and nonlinear dynamic processes in magnetic systems, such as the dynamics of spin waves. More recently, he has also engaged in dynamic processes that occur during the transfer of electrons between magnetic layers in nano-objects. Slavin's research bears high potential for applications, such as ultra-fast data storage. Therefore, his research also meets great interest in industry. Slavin has studied and started his academic career in St. Petersburg, Russia; since 1991 he is a professor in the United States. Earlier collaborations with Professor Hillebrands of the University of Kaiserslautern (Department of Physics and State Research Center OPTIMAS) have already resulted in 45 publications, in which PhD students were always actively involved. Due to his achievements Slavin was recently elected as Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He is also Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and Distinguished Professor at Oakland University.
The MAINZ Graduate School was approved within the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments in 2007. In 2012 it received an extension for another five years - a great success for the material scientists and the promotion of young scientists. The Graduate School consists of research groups of the University of Mainz, the University of Kaiserslautern and the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. One of the main research fields focuses on spintronics, whereby the cooperation with leading international partners plays an important role. Excellent PhD students of the natural sciences from home and abroad obtain an outstanding education in the field of materials science through the Graduate School.
For further information:
Professor Dr. Burkard Hillebrands (phone: +49 631 205 5225; e-mail: hilleb(at)physik.uni-kl.de)