Nationality German Name Burkard Hillebrands | Education University of Cologne Fields Physics, Magnetism | |
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Institutions University of Cologne
University of Arizona
RWTH Aachen University
University of Karlsruhe
University of Kaiserslautern Known for Spintronics
Magnetization dynamics
Solid-state physics
Materials science Notable awards Fellow Institute of Physics (2004)
APS Fellow (2010)
IEEE Fellow (2010)
Member Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz (2010) | ||
Novel transport phenomena using magnonic Bose-Einstein condensates
Burkard Hillebrands, Prof. Dr. (born 1957) is a German physicist and professor of physics. He is the leader of the magnetism research group at the Department of Physics. of the University of Kaiserslautern and he is Scientific Director and Executive Board of the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW).
Contents
- Novel transport phenomena using magnonic Bose Einstein condensates
- Academic career
- Awards and Honours
- Research
- Publications
- References
Academic career
Burkard Hillebrands was born in 1957. He studied physics at the University of Cologne (1977–1982) and was awarded his PhD in 1986 at the University of Cologne working with Prof. Gernot Güntherodt.
After a postdoctoral stay at the Optical Sciences Center in Tucson, Arizona he received his habilitation from the RWTH Aachen in 1993. He was employed as an associate professor at the University of Karlsruhe in 1994. In 1995 he accepted a full professor position at the University of Kaiserslautern. Between 2006 and 2014, he served as the Vice President for Research, Technology and Innovation of the University of Kaiserslautern.
He serves as chairperson or vice-chairperson in various coordinated initiatives of the German Science Foundation and the European Community, such as the German priority programme “Ultrafast Magnetization Processes” (2002–2008, coordinator), the EU research training networks "Ultrafast Magnetization Processes in Advanced Devices (ULTRASWITCH)” (2002–2006), „Spin Current Induced Ultrafast Switching (SPINSWITCH)” (2004–2010, coordinator)“, the Japanese-German research unit “ASPIMATT: Advanced Spintronic Materials and Transport Phenomena” (2010-2015, vice-coordinator), and the transregional collaborative research center “Condensed Matters Systems with Variable Many-Body Interactions (SFB/TRR 49)” (since 2007, vice-coordinator). From 2016, he also serves as vice-coordinator of the transregional collaborative research center SFB/TRR 173 named “Spin in its collective environment (Spin+X) of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). In 2016 Hillebrands was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He is a member of the State Research Center for Optics and Material Sciences (OPTIMAS) and fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP). Since 2015 he is secretary of the C9 Commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and chair of the working group on magnetism of the Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG), the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e.V. (DGM), the Energietechnische Gesellschaft of VDE (ETG) and the Steel Institute (Stahlinstitut VDEh). Since 2016 he is also a member of the General Council of the European Magnetism Association. He is also member of the permanent commission for European research politics of the German Association of University Chancellors. Since 2017 Burkard Hillebrands is Vice President of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz.
Awards and Honours
Research
Burkard Hillebrands' research field is mostly in spintronics. His special interests are in spin dynamics and magnonics, material properties of thin magnetic films, heterostructures and multilayersnanostructures. In the field of spin dynamics and magnonics he is particularly interested in the properties of spin waves and their quanta, magnons, and their application to future information technologies. He is also interested in research on dynamic magnetic excitations in confined magnetic structures, linear and nonlinear spin wave propagation phenomena, magnon gases and,condensates, magnonic crystals and magnetic switching. A further focus of interest lies on spin transport phenomena, in particular on conversion processes between magnon, spin and charge currents (spin Hall effects, spin Seebeck effects). His particular technical interest is in the development of space-, time- and phase resolved Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy and time resolved Kerr Effect techniques.
Publications
Hillebrands has published more than 370 articles in peer-reviewed international scientific journals, five patents and patent applications, seven book contributions, and he is co-editor of the Springer TAP book series on “Spin Dynamics in Confined Magnetic Structures”.