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.

Michal Moravec

Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in March 2024

Research project under the supervision of Prof. A. Mackenzie

Thesis: "From Ohmic to Non-Local Transport in Delafossite Metals"

Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden
 

Anđela Živanović

Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in February 2024

Research project under the supervision of Prof. A. Mackenzie and Prof. Phil King

Thesis: "Imaging and manipulating the band structure of NbSe2 and Ca3Ru2O7"


Izidor Benedicic

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Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in November 2023

Research project under the supervision of Prof. A. Mackenzie and Dr. P. Wahl

Thesis: "Imaging surface magnetism in ruthenates"

Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Laura Agnarelli

Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in October 2023

Research project under the supervision of Prof. J. Grin and Dr. A. Leithe-Jasper

Thesis: "Structural Chemistry of Intermetallic Compounds of Beryllium and Magnesium with Late Transition Metals"

Current position: postdoctoral researcher at CRISMAT laboratorie, CNRS in Caen, France

Ekta Singh

Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in October 2023

Research project under the supervision of Prof. A. MackenzieDr. C. Hicks and Prof. L. Eng

Thesis: "Tuning domain wall conductivity in bulk LiNbO3 by uniaxial stress"

Current position: Team lead key account service at Nanosurf GmbH

Rebeca Ibarra

Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in September 2023

Research project under the supervision of Dr. A. Markou and Prof. C. Felser 

Thesis: “Study of Magnetic and Magnetotransport properties of epitaxial MnPtGa and Mn2Rh1−xIrxSn Heusler Thin Films”

Edgar Abarca Morales

Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in March 2023

Research project under the supervision of Prof. A. MackenzieDr. 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. MackenzieDr. C. Hicks and Prof. M. Vojta

Thesis: "Probing Hund's-Metal Physics through the Hall Effect in Microstructured Sr2RuO4 under Uniaxial Stress”

Belén 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

Thesis: "Electronic structure calculations and microscopic modeling of complex structure-property relations"

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, Belgium

Vanda 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"

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, Dresden

Dibyashree 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 Dresden


Peter 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, Sweden

Fabian Jerzembeck

Graduated from IMPRS-CPQM in November 2020

Research project under the supervision of Prof. A. MackenzieDr. 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 Source

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)

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