Alumni
We congratulate all former students of IMPRS-CPQM on completing their PhD, and wish them all the best for their future career.
Here you can find a list of all our former students, sorted by date of graduation.
Edgar Abarca Morales
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in March 2023
Research project under the supervision of Prof. A. Mackenzie, Dr. C. Hicks and Prof. P. King
Thesis: "Angle-resolved photoemission studies of uniaxial stress-driven Lifshitz transitions in the bulk and surface electronic structure of Sr2RuO4"
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden
Janas Kunnelakat John
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in November 2022
Research project under the supervision of Dr. M. Nicklas
Thesis: “Investigations of the heavy fermion superconductors CeRhIn5 and PrOs4Sb12 by hydrostatic and uniaxial pressure tuning”
Jacintha Banda
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in April 2022
Research project under the supervision of Dr. M. Brando
Thesis: “Thermodynamic studies of non-Kondo Ce- and Yb-based intermetallics”Po-Ya Yang
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in February 2022
Research project under the supervision of Prof. A. Mackenzie, Dr. C. Hicks and Prof. M. Vojta
Thesis: "Probing Hund's-Metal Physics through the Hall Effect in Microstructured Sr2RuO4 under Uniaxial Stress”
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, DresdenBelén Zúñiga
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in February 2022
Research project under the supervision of Prof. A. Mackenzie, Prof. Lukas Eng and Prof. C. Felser
Thesis: “Magnetic Properties and Domains in the Uniaxial Ferromagnet Mn1.4PtSn and the Non-collinear Antiferromagnet Mn3Pt under Strain”
Dijana Milosavljevic
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in January 2022
Research project under the supervision of Dr. H. Rosner
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle
Iryna Zelenina
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in January 2022
Research project under the supervision of Dr. P. Simon and Prof. J. Grin
Thesis: "Studies on structural complexity by transmission electron microscopy"
Current position: Process engineer at imec in Leuven, BelgiumVanda Pereira
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in January 2022
Research project under the supervision of Prof. Hao Tjeng and Dr. Simone Altendorf
Thesis: "In situ studies of Bi2Te3 thin films and interfaces grown by molecular beam epitaxy"
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden
Ana Barrios
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in January 2022
Research project under the supervision of Dr. Iryna Antonyshyn and Prof. J. Grin
Thesis: "Pt-based Intermetallic Compounds as Precursors for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER) Electrocatalysis"Elina Zhakina
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in December 2021
Research project under the supervision of Prof. A. Mackenzie
Thesis: "Investigation of transport regimes in restricted geometries of ultra-pure natural heterostructures"
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden
Clemens Schindler
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in October 2021
Research project under the supervision of Dr. Johannes Gooth and Prof. C. Felser
Thesis: "Uniaxial-stress response, electron-phonon interaction, and magnetic interactions in topological semimetals and narrow-gap semiconductors" (pdf)
Current position: Technology Development at JENOPTIK Optical Systems, DresdenDibyashree Chakraborti
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in September 2021
Research project under the supervision of Prof. A. Mackenzie and Dr. P. Wahl
Thesis: "STM imaging of strongly correlated materials with spin orbit coupling"Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate at S.N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences at Kolkata, India
Alexandr Sukhanov
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in March 2021
Research project under supervision of Prof. D. Inosov and Prof. C. Felser
Thesis: "Neutron Scattering Study of Noncollinear Magnets"
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at Technische Universität DresdenPeter Swekis
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in April 2021.
Research project under the supervision of Prof. C. Felser
Thesis: "Magnetic and Magnetotransport Properties of Topological MnxPtSn and Co2MnGa Heusler Thin Films"Current position: Researcher for epitaxial growth of group III/V materials at imec in Leuven, Belgium
Julia Hübner
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in March 2021
Research project under the supervision of Prof. J. Grin and Dr. U. Schwarz
Thesis: "Beiträge zu Verbindungen von Silicium und Germanium mit Erdalkali- und Seltenerdmetallen unter Druck" (pdf) ("Contributions to compounds of silicon and germanium with alkaline earth and rare earth metals under high-pressure conditions")
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at Lund University, SwedenFabian Jerzembeck
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in November 2020
Research project under the supervision of Prof. A. Mackenzie, Dr. C. Hicks and Prof. H.-H. Klauß
Thesis: "Uniaxial Pressure Studies of the Unconventional Superconductor Sr2RuO4"
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden
Igor Marković
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in April 2020
Research project under the supervision of Prof. A. Mackenzie and Prof. P. King
Thesis: "Interplay of spin-orbit coupling and crystal symmetries in the electronic structures of NbGeSb and Ca3Ru2O7"
Current position: Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham, joint appointment with Diamond Light Course
Stanislav Nikitin
Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in February 2020
Research project under the supervision of Dr. O. Stockert
Thesis: "Competing magnetic interactions in 4f-based magnets studied by neutron scattering" (pdf)
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland)