Successful Dissertation Defense

On February 27th our colleague Simone Fiorentini successfully defended his dissertation with the title “Computation of Torques in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions”.

Special thanks go to the dissertation committee:

Committee Chair:

Univ.-Prof. Michael Feiginov (TU Wien, Austria)

Supervisor and Examiner:

Privatdoz. Viktor Sverdlov MSc PhD (TU Wien, Austria)

Examiner:

Univ.-Prof.Dr. Dieter Süss (Uni Wien, Austria)
Prof.Dr. Jaroslav Fabian (Uni Regensburg, Germany)

New Team Member Bernhard

Bernhard Pruckner started on December 1st as a doctoral student in the NovoMemLog team and his research will be focused on micromagnetic simulations for non-volatile magnetic memory devices. He received his BSc degree in Technical Physics at the TU Wien in 2017. He continued his study at the TU Wien simultaneously working on his Master thesis at the Austrian Institute of Technology on coupled finite volume – finite element approach for simulating solidification processes in aluminum alloys. He successfully defended the thesis at the TU Wien in 2020 and received his Masters degree in Technical Physics.


Welcome to our team, Bernhard!

New Team Member Wilton

Wilton Jaciel Loch started on September 1st as a doctoral student in the NovoMemLog team and his research will focused on micromagnetic simulations for non-volatile magnetic memory devices. He received his Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Santa Catarina State University in 2019. In 2020 he enrolled in the Master’s program in Applied Computing from the same university, with research focused on communication algorithms for high performance computing (HPC). He received his Master’s degree in 2021 and in October he joined the Institute for Microelectronics to perform research on HPC methods for micromagnetic simulations of non-volatile magnetic memory devices.

Welcome to our team, Wilton!

New Team Member Nils

Nils Petter Jørstad started on September 1st as a doctoral student in the NovoMemLog team and his research will focused on micromagnetic simulations for non-volatile magnetic memory devices. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, in 2019. After a summer internship at Manipal University in Jaipur, India, he enrolled in the Master’s program in Physics at NTNU. He obtained his Master’s degree in 2021, specializing in computational physics. Nils joined the Institute for Microelectronics in September 2021, where he is pursuing a PhD degree focusing on the implementation of spin and magnetization dynamics in simulations of non-volatile magnetic memory devices.

Welcome to our team, Nils!

New Team Member Mario

Mario Bendra started on October 12th as a doctoral student in the NovoMemLog team and his research will focused on micromagnetic simulations for non-volatile magnetic memory devices .He received his BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in 2017. After an exchange semester at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia in 2018, he received the degree of Diplomingenieur in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in 2019.

Welcome to our team, Mario !

New Team Member Tomáš

Tomáš Hadamek started on July 1st as a doctoral student in the NovoMemLog team and his research will focused on micromagnetic simulations for non-volatile magnetic memory devices . Tomáš received his Bachelor degree in Mechatronics from Brno University of Technology in 2015. After an exchange year at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, he enrolled in a Master program therein, receiving his Master’s degree (MSc) in Physics in November 2018. In addition to his expertise in condensed-matter physics, Tomáš has previous experience working in the fields of numerical acoustics and robotics.

Welcome to our team, Tomáš !

New Team Member Silvia

Silvia Antoneanu started on January 27th as an administrative assistant in the NovoMemLog team. Silvia held an administrative position at Lidl Romania and, since moving to Vienna, she has worked at the Library of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) and at Bank Austria, where she provided administrative support in data collection.

Welcome to our team, Silvia!

New Team Member Ciprian

Ciprian Mihai Ceausescu started on October 14th as a doctoral student in the NovoMemLog team and his research will focus on on integrating heat transport equations with spin/charge transport and magnetization dynamics. Ciprian graduated from University of Bucharest in June 2019, where he obtained a Master’s degree in Software Engineering with a final project regarding Deep Learning Optimization. Welcome to our team, Ciprian!

New Team Member Mohamed

Mohamed Mohamedou started on September 4th as a doctoral student in the NovoMemLog team and his research will focus on developing high performance numerical simulations-based micromagnetics approaches to investigating non-volatile magnetic memory devices . Mohamed graduated from Paris-Saclay University in 2016 where he obtained a Master’s Degree in Numerical Analysis/Applied Mathematics. Afterwards, he worked on numerical modeling for different industrial and academic projects spanning electromagnetism and mechanics engineering. . Welcome to our team, Mohamed!