Prof. Dr Burkard Hillebrands

Burkard Hillebrands studied physics at the University of Cologne from 1977 to  1982, where he received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1986 and defended his Habilitation in 1993.  Currently, he is a full professor at the University of Kaiserslautern (since 2023 – Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau), where he also served as Vice President for Research, Technology, and Innovation from 2006 to 2014.  He serves as Vice President of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. Prof. Hillebrands is a member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering, Germany (acatech), the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC), a Fellow of the IEEE Society, the American Physical Society, and the Institute of Physics, UK. This year Prof. Hillebrands received the Achievement Award of the IEEE Magnetics Society.

Throughout his career, Prof. Hillebrands has published more than 450 peer-reviewed papers, five patents and patent applications, and many book contributions. His research interests are in the field of spin dynamics and material properties of magnetic thin films, multilayers, and nanostructures, with a particular focus on magnon spintronics.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8910-0355

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Dr Igor Vladymyrskyi

Igor Vladymyrskyi received his Master Degree (2011) in Materials Science from National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” followed by PhD (2014) and Dr. Sci. (2021) degrees from Institute of Metal Physics of National Academy of Science of Ukraine. From 2022 he holds a position of director of E.O. Paton Institute of Materials Science and Welding of National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”. Research activities are devoted to diffusion and diffusion-controlled phenomena in nanoscale magnetic thin films.

Prof. Dr Sergii Sidorenko

Serhii I. Sidorenko, Full Professor, Doctor of Physical-Mathematical Science, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine (Specialty "Material Science, Technology of Metals"), Honorable Scientist of Ukraine, the leader of the Scientific School in Physics and Technology of Metallic Nanomaterials at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Supervisor of Department of Physical Material Science and Heat Treatment. Research Interests: fundamental nanodimentional material science; diffusion, structure and phase transformations; metallic nanomaterials; SIMS, Auger, electron microscopy, X-ray analysis;

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0975-8363 

Dr Andreas Kaidatzis

Dr Andreas Kaidatzis holds a first degree in Physics (2003) and a postgraduate degree in Materials Physics (2005) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He obtained his doctoral degree in Physics from the University of Paris 11, France (2008), as a Marie-Curie Fellow, studying spin-dependent transport phenomena in magnetic multilayers, extensively using magnetic microscopies.

He has worked as postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Microelectronics of NCSR Demokritos, Greece (2010-2011) and at the Institute of Microelectronics of Madrid (2011-2013) in the framework of an Individual Marie-Curie Fellowship. His work has been focused on the study of magnetic thin films and nanostructures using magnetic force microscopy. Since May 2013 he is working as a Research Associate at the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of NCSR Demokritos, Greece, studying materials for magnetic memories, magnetic recording and permanent magnets applications.

He is an expert in thin film physical vapour deposition, scanning probe microscopies, and magnetometry.

Prof. Dr Oleksandr Prokopenko

Oleksandr Prokopenko received his Master Degree (2002), Ph.D. in radio physics (2006), and D.Sc. in radio physics (2016) from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in Ukraine. Currently, he is a professor and chair of the “Nanophysics and Nanoelectronics” department at the Institute of High Technologies of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. With his activities, Oleksandr Prokopenko made a decisive contribution to the development of the field of spintronic detectors and oscillators operating in the microwave and subterahertz bands and nanodevices based on mentioned spintronic nanostructures. These activities are supported by many national and international projects. Oleksandr Prokopenko is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Web-page: https://iht.knu.ua/en/staff/3021/ 

Dr Denys Makarov

Denys Makarov received his Master Degree (2005) at the National University of Kyiv in Ukraine, followed by a Ph.D. in physics (2008) from the University of Konstanz in Germany. Currently, he is head of department “Intelligent materials and systems” at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and leads the Helmholtz Innovation Lab FlexiSens. With his activities, Denys Makarov made a decisive contribution to the development of the field of curvilinear magnetism and stimulated research on spintronics on flexible, bendable and stretchable surfaces. Mechanically flexible and skin-conformal magnetic field sensors enable new application scenarios for human-machine interfaces, eMobility and medicine. These activities are supported via major national and European projects. Denys Makarov is Senior Member of the IEEE and Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe.

Web-page: http://www.smartsensorics.eu/department/dr-denys-makarov/ 

Dr Oleksandr Serha

Dr. Oleksandr Serha (a.k.a. Alexander A. Serga) received his Master's, Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees in Radiophysics and Electronics from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 1989, 1995, and 2006, respectively. In 1991, he received a second Master's in Automation of Experimental Research from the same university. From 1989 to 2004, he worked at the Faculty of Radiophysics of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv as an engineer, Assistant, D.Sc. Research Fellow, and Docent (Associate Professor). In 2001, Dr. Oleksandr Serha joined the Department of Physics at the Kaiserslautern University of Technology (Kaiserslautern, Germany) as a Research Associate, and in 2006 he took a permanent position as a Senior Research Associate. In 2009, he received his Habilitation degree in experimental physics and the academic title of Privatdocent at the Kaiserslautern University of Technology (since 2023 – Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau). His current research topics include spin-wave electrodynamics, magnonics, spintronics, spin caloritronics, functional microelectronics, dynamics of magnon gases and magnon Bose–Einstein condensates, nonstationary nonlinear phenomena in magnetically ordered media at microwave frequencies, and other related areas.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2634-8569

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