Spin+X supports Ukrainian scientists
Spin+X offers support to scientists from Ukraine who have been directly affected by the war. An eligible candidate should propose a contribution relevant to the research conducted within Spin+X. If you are a Spin+X scholar interested in this call, please contact the Spin+X office and outline the science relevant to Spin+X you are proposing and the support you would like to receive. In addition, we especially encourage students from Ukraine who are pursuing a Master's or PhD program to contact us.
Spin+X - Spin in its collective environment
The Transregional Collaborative Research Center 173 Spin+X investigates spin properties from various perspectives and by connecting several scientific disciplines. Its research encompasses the whole range of spin research spanning from microscopic properties, to emergent spin phenomena and to the coupling to the macroscopic world. This constitutes a new discipline that we refer to as Advanced Spin Engineering, which seeks to create new functionalities based on spin physics. Spin+X builds on an outstanding research infrastructure in physics and chemistry at RPTU and JGU, as well as in engineering at RPTU, which are at the forefront of spin-related science and technology.
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German Physical Society honours Kaiserslautern researcher for work in surface physics
The German Physical Society (DPG) has awarded Dr Benjamin Stadtmüller the Gaede Prize. The award is in recognition of his research achievements in the field of controlling dynamic processes at metal-organic interfaces. Benjamin Stadtmüller conducts research at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK) on so-called ultrafast phenomena at functional surfaces and interfaces. The prize of 10,000 euros is awarded for contributions in the field of vacuum science and technology.
Benjamin Stadtmüller has been a member of the OPTIMAS state research centre at TU Kaiserslautern since 2015. He is working on the dynamics and control of molecular materials and interfaces induced by ultrashort laser pulses. Until 2021, he conducted research as a junior professor at TUK. Since 2021, he has led a research group at TUK within the framework of the Collaborative Research Centres "Spin+X - Spin in its collective environment" (Spin+X) and "Cooperative effects in homo- and heterometallic complexes (3MET)", respectively, and is also a scientific coordinator in the TopDyn excellence project at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
The jury's statement said: "In recognition of his outstanding and pioneering work on the control of optical and electronic properties of hybrid interfaces with newly developed, time-resolved and surface-sensitive measurement methods."
The Gaede Prize is funded by the Gaede Foundation and awarded by the DPG. It was endowed by Dr Manfred Dunkel in 1985 and has been awarded annually since 1986.
Dr Stadtmüller will receive the award in March 2023 during the DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section in Dresden.
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On 1 January 2023, the TU Kaiserslautern and the Landau Campus of the University of Koblenz-Landau will become the Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University Kaiserslautern-Landau, or RPTU for short.
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