DPG portrays physicist of the week

Starting from January 2018, the German Physical Society's working group on equal opportunities (AKC) has been regularly featuring women in physics who are based in Germany or German women who are working in the field of physics abroad. In calendar week 30/2024, Dr. Anulekha De, member of the Spin+X working groups of Prof. Dr. Aeschlimann, Prof. Dr. von Freymann and Junior Prof. Dr. Pirro, was presented.

Anulekha is a physicist from India. She is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics at the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (RPTU) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Anulekha has a background in physics and received her Master’s degree from the University of Burdwan, India (First Rank in University, Gold Medalist) and her Ph.D. from the S. N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, India. She then came to Germany for postdoctoral research in 2021. Her research focuses on experimental condensed matter physics to study ultrafast magnetization dynamics in magnetic thin films and nanostructures, as one of the major challenges of modern information technology is to develop new concepts to increase the data storage and processing speed beyond today’s GHz limit. In her research, she investigates the magnetization dynamics of magnetic materials after strong excitation by ultrafast optical pulses and aims to understand the microscopic mechanism of laser-induced magnetization dynamics on femto-, pico-, and nanosecond timescales, which is still a topic of intense debate. For the investigations, she uses all-optical pump-probe spectroscopy based on the time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect (TR-MOKE). In addition, she uses other experimental techniques such as Brillouin light scattering (BLS) and THz pump-probe spectroscopy. She also performs numerical simulations and frequently collaborates with other theorists to gain a deeper understanding of the experimental ultrafast magnetization dynamics.

Source: German Physical Society (DPG)