We are very pleased to welcome Nayra Alvarez to the INSPIRE group. She joins the group as a PhD student. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.
Contact information:
Nayra Alvarz
Email: alvarezp@students.uni-mainz.de
Team
11.11.2020 Nayra Alvarez joins the INSPIRE group
13.10.2020 Gizem Özcan joins the INSPIRE group
We are very pleased to welcome Gizem Özcan to the INSPIRE group. She joins the group as a PhD student. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.
Contact information:
Gizem Özcan
Email: gioezcan@students.uni-mainz.de
01.04.2020 Tobias Wagner joins the INSPIRE and TWIST group.
We are very pleased to welcome Bennet Karetta to the INSPIRE group. He joins the group as a M.Sc. Candidate joint with the TWIST group. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.
Contact information:
Tobias Wagner
Email: tobias.wagner@uni-mainz.de
01.04.2020 Bennet Karetta joins the INSPIRE and TWIST group
We are very pleased to welcome Bennet Karetta to the INSPIRE group. He joins the group as a M.Sc. Candidate joint with the TWIST group. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.
Contact information:
Bennet Karetta
Email: karetta@uni-mainz.de
19.12.2017 – Olena Gomonay receives DFG grant
We congratulate Olena (Helen) Gomonay on obtaining her first DFG research grant “SHARP: Spintronics witHAntiferRomagntes and Phonos”. Well done Helen!
The proposed research project will open and explore new ways to detect and manipulate antiferromagnets using phonons and magneto-elastic coupling effects.
01.12.2017 – Karin Everschor-Sitte Receives the Hertha-Sponer-Preis 2018
We congratulate Dr. Karin Everschor-Sitte, group leader of TWIST, for receiving the Hertha-Sponer-Preis 2018
02.05.2017 – INSPIRE group welcomes new member Reza Mahani
Reza Mahani has just joined the group and will support the Organic Spintronics team as a postdoctoral researcher. Before he was a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Information and Communication Technology at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
We wish him a good start in Mainz!
17.03. 2017 – Meet us at the DPG Spring Meeting 2017!
You can find us in Dresden from March 19-24, where we present our work at the DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section.
Consult the conference program for more details.
Team Members
University Professor
Jairo SINOVA
Alexander von Humboldt Professor,Head of INSPIRE, Director of SPICE
Phone: +49 6131 39 - 23340
Fax: +49 6131 39 - 26375
Office: Staudingerweg 7 / 01-327sinova@uni-mainz.de
Sinova's Complete CV and Short CV
Leerzeile
Research Team Leaders and Postdoctoral Fellows
V. K. BHARADWAJ
Postdoctoral Fellow and Computational Expert
Phone: +49 6131 39 - 25151
Office: Staudingerweg 7 / 01-533
Atasi CHAKRABORTY
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow
Antiferromagnetic and Altermagnetic Spintronics
Phone: +49 6131 39 - 27992
Office: Staudingerweg 7 / 01-325
Olena GOMONAY
Independent Research Senior Team Leader
Spin+X and ElastoQMat PI
Antiferromagnetic Spintronics
Phone: +49 6131 39 - 23643
Office: Staudingerweg 7 / 01-319
Pieter GUNNINK
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow
joint with the team of TopMagIc
Topological Magnetic Insolitronics
Phone: +49 6131 39 - 27991
Office: Staudingerweg 7 / 01-533
Libor ŠMEJKAL
Independent Research Team Leader at MPI Dresden (from Sept 2024)
Spin+X and ElastoQMat PI
Altermagnetic and Antiferromagnetic Topological Spintronics
Phone: +49 6131 39 - 25781
Office: Staudingerweg 7 / 01-315
lsmejkal@uni-mainz.de
Xanthe Verbeek
Postdoctoral Fellow ElastoQMat and SPIN+X: Altermagnetic and Antiferromagnetic Spintronics
Phone: +49 6131 39 - 27992
Office: Staudingerweg 7 / 01-325
xverbeek@uni-mainz.de
Ricardo ZARZUELA
Independent Research Team Leader
Antiferromagnetic Spintronics
Phone: +49 6131 39 - 25781
Office: Staudingerweg 7 / 01-315
Leerzeile
Administration
Elena HILP
Administration
PA of Sinova, SPICE & Guests Coordinator
Phone: +49 6131 39 - 27992
Fax: +49 6131 39 - 23474
Office: Staudingerweg 7 / 01-325
Denise KORNBRUST
Administration
HR & Project Management
Phone: +49 6131 39 - 27991
Phone (direct): +49 6131 39 - 23642
Fax: +49 6131 39 - 26375
Office: Staudingerweg 7 / 01-323
Hjördis PUSCH
Administration
HR, Project Management
Phone: +49 6131 39 - 27991
Fax: +49 6131 39 - 26375
Office: Staudingerweg 7 / 01-323
Angélica Maria RUIZ PERDOMO
Media & Outreach
Phone: +49 6131 39 - 27991
Fax: +49 6131 39 - 26375
Office: Staudingerweg 9 / 02-233
Leerzeile
Visiting Scientists
Rafael GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ
Associate Professor
Alexander v. Humboldt Fellow
Universidad del Norte
Departamento de Fisica
Barranquilla, Colombia
Jacob GAYLES
Leerzeile
PhD Candidates
Nayra ALVAREZ
PhD Candidate
First-principles study of compensated magnets
Phone: +49 6131 39 - 27424
Fax: +49 6131 39 - 26375
Office: Staudingerweg 7 / 01-523
Rodrigo JAESCHKE
PhD Candidate
Topological Antiferromagnetic Spintronics
Phone: +49 6131 39 - 27424
Fax: +49 6131 39 - 26375
Office: Staudingerweg 7 / 01-523
Bennet KARETTA
PhD Candidate
Antiferromagnetic and Altermagnetic Spintronics
Phone: +49 6131 39 - 27424
Fax: +49 6131 39 - 26375
Office: Staudingerweg 7 / 01-523
Ross KNAPMAN
PhD Candidate joint with TWIST Group
Phone: +49 203 379 4717
Office: Lotharstraße 1 / MG 384 / 47057 Duisburg
Gina Pantano
Visiting PhD Candidate
Phone: +49 6131 39 - 27424
Fax: +49 6131 39 - 26375
Office: Staudingerweg 7 / 01-523
Scientific Student Assistants
Colin LANGE
Nils KELLER
Photos: Sabrina Hopp, Robert Vettel, Lukas Klein and Angélica Ruiz
04.11.2016 – INSPIRE Group Welcomes New Team Members
We are very pleased to welcome Bertrand Dupé and Melanie Dupé, Kyoung-Whan Kim, Marie Böttcher and Uday Chopra to the INSPIRE group. Bertrand Dupé joined us as an interim professor and team leader. Melanie Dupé and Kyoung-Whan Kim, both postdoctoral researcher, add perfectly our team as well as Marie Böttcher and Uday Chopra, who joined us as PhD students.