Neil Smith Award won by Grischa Beneke at Intermag 2024

Grischa Beneke, Master student in the group of Prof. Mathias Kläui at JGU Mainz, won the Neil Smith Award at the Intermag 2024 Conference, hosted by the IEEE International Magnetics Conference. The Intermag Conference took place from May 5-10, 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the premier annual conference on fundamental and applied magnetism.

Grischa Beneke was one of five finalists and was chosen as the winner by the jury. The award, which includes a cash prize of $1,000, is in the category of "emerging memory/compute."

He presented his first-author paper “Gesture recognition with Brownian reservoir computing using geometrically confined skyrmion dynamics” [Beneke, G. et al. Preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01877 (2024)]. His research involves using radar data to differentiate between various hand gestures with the help of a physical reservoir, utilizing the movement of a single skyrmion within a confined space.