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Jairo Sinova to coordinate a new Priority Program for fundamental and applied research into information technology based on altermagnetism.

Professor Jairo Sinova of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) will be coordinating a new Priority Program in the field of condensed matter physics that will be dealing with unconventional magnetism. The Priority Program will involve fundamental and applied research in the field of unconventional magnetic systems to develop IT components or devices that will reach the technical limits of physical viability in terms of speed, storage density, and efficiency. The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the establishment of the Priority Program on “Unconventional Magnetism: Beyond the s-wave magnetism paradigm” and will be providing around EUR 8 million in funding over an initial period of three years. The project is to be launched in 2026.

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You can find the press release under EurekAlert!

We congratulate our colleague Tobias Wagner, who successfully defended his PhD on "Interface Effects in Antiferromagnetic-Ferromagnetic Hybrid Systems".  He there studied how domains, topological structures and dynamics are connected in systems of antiferromagnets and ferromagnets grown on each other. His work lead to multiple publications, namely

Imprinting of Antiferromagnetic Vortex States in NiO-Fe Nanostructures

Revealing the ultra-fast domain wall motion in Mn2Au through permalloy capping

Coupling of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic spin dynamics in Mn2Au/NiFe thin-film bilayers.

We congratulate our colleague V.K. Bharadwaj, who successfully defended his PhD on "Magnetic skyrmions in in-plane magnets". In his studies, he investigated the stability, curent dynamics and excitations of magnetic skyrmions, which amongst others led to a publication in Physical Review B.

We are very pleased to welcome Lennart Piotraschke, Martin Münzenberg and Matthias Greber to the INSPIRE group. They join the group as scientific student assistants. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.

Contact information:
Lennart Piotraschke
Email: lpiotras@students.uni-mainz.de

Martin Münzenberg
Email: mmuenzen@students.uni-mainz.de

Matthias Greber
Email: mgreber@students.uni-mainz.de

We are very pleased to welcome Steven Schoenmaker to the INSPIRE group. He joins the group as a PhD student. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.

Contact information:
Steven Schoenmaker
Email: sschoen@students.uni-mainz.de

We are very pleased to welcome Rodrigo Jaescke to the INSPIRE group. He joins the group as a PhD student. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.

Contact information:
Rodrigo Jaeschke
Email: rjaeschk@students.uni-mainz.de