Faculty at Forschungszentrum Jülich
As a result of the close collaboration between RWTH Aachen and Forschungszentrum Jülich, a number of researchers at the Forschungszentrum are also faculty at our department.
Field of Research
We calculate and analyze the electronic, structural, magnetic, transport etc. quantities of interesting solids, nanostructures and molecules – for fundamental research and practical applications. We are member of JARA sections JARA-FIT and JARA-HPC and are closely networked into the Research Unit 912 (Coherence and Relaxation Properties of Electron Spin), and the Collaborative Research Centre 917 (Nanoswitches).
Current research topics include:
- Topological Insulators
- Magnetism: Skyrmions in chiral magnets in low dimensions, spin relaxation, spin excitation, excitations of magnons, spin dynamics, dynamical susceptibility
- Spintronics: Spin-, anomalous, quantum spin-, quantum anomalous Hall effect, spin accumulation, and spin torque
- Nanoferronics: multiferroic materials, metal-oxide interface, oxide-oxide interface
- Nanoswitches: nano-ionics, resistively switching chalcogenides, disorder and large defects
- Molecular electronics: (intercaiated) graphene und organic molecules on surfaces
- Energy: Spin-caloric, photovoltaic, fuel cell
- Development and application of electronic structure methods for top-end high-performance computing
- Realization of orbital-dependent functionals (OEP-EXX+RPA) for density-functional theory (DFT)
- Development and application of electronic structure methods beyond the standard model: vdW, cRPA, GW, GW+T
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Research Area
Physics of materials and material systems for future information technology:
- Magnetic nanostructures (e.g. nanoparticles, thin-film systems)
- Highly correlated electron systems (e.g. multiferroics, new super conductors)
- Ordering phenomena, stimuli, functionalities
- Application of modern scattering methods on neutron and synchrotron x-ray sources
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Prof. Dr. Paolo Carloni
Computational Biomedicine Institute (IAS-5/INM-9)
Research Area
We combine different computational approaches in a powerful strategy aimed at dissecting structural and energetic facets in cellular pathways related to human perception and molecular medicine. The diversity of computational methods ranges from classical atomistic and coarse-grained force field to ab initio quantum mechanical and hybrid quantum mechanical/classical molecular dynamics complemented by structural bioinformatics methods, including, e.g., sequence alignment, protein structure alignment and prediction, drug discovery and molecular docking.
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Prof. Dr. Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski
Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons (ER-C) and
Peter Grünberg Institute: Microstructure Research (PGI-5)
Research topics
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Aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy
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In situ transmission electron microscopy
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Electron holography
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Electron tomography
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Electromagnetic field mapping in nanoscale materials and working devices
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Model-based iterative reconstruction
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Quantitative image analysis
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Instrumentation development
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Interface characterisation
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Research area
We use methods of statisitcal physics to investigate the dynamics, statistics and processing of information in neural networks. Our aim is to understand collective phenomena in biological and atrifical neural networks and their role in signal processing.
We currenly focus on:
- field theory of neural networks
- phase transitions in neural networks (critical phenomena, chaos)
- physics of explainable AI
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Prof. Dr. Erik Koch, Computational Materials Science, German Research School for Simulation Sciences
Research Area
Theory of strongly correlated materials; quantum cluster methods; organic crystals; massive parallel simulations
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Lehrach
Institute of Physics III B, LuF Physik der Teilchenbeschleuniger
Nuclear Physics Institute (IKP-4), FZ Jülich
Research Area
Accelerator physics, measurement of permanent electric dipole moments in storage rings, beam and spin dynamics, Laser-Plasma acceleration
Further information
https://www.jara.org/de/forschung/jara-fame
http://collaborations.fz-juelich.de/ikp/jedi/
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Prof. Dr. Dr. Livia Ludhova
III. Physikalisches Institut B, Institute for Nuclear Physics (IKP-2), FZ Juelich
Research Aera
The current research of Livia Ludhova is focused on low-energy neutrino physics based on large-volume liquid-scintillator detectors. She is a member of the Borexino and JUNO collaborations. She is specialized in solar and geo neutrinos and works on neutrino-mass hierarchy measurement with reactor antineutrinos.
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Apl. Prof. Dr. Siegfried Mantl, Institute of Bio- and Nanosystems (IBN) - Semiconductor Nanoelectronics (IBN-1) - Ion Technology (IBN-1-IT), Chair of Experimental Physics IV
Research Area
Investigation of nanoelectronic materials, electric transport in nanostructures, and the development of silicon-based semiconductor building components; ion implantation and ion beam analysis
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Prof. Dr. Kristel Michielsen, Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS) – Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) – Division Computational Science – Research Group Quantum Information Processing
Research Area
Simulation of quantum systems, quantum computation and information, computational physics, high-performance computing, event-by-event simulation of quantum phenomena, foundations of quantum physics
Further Information
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Research Area
Interdisciplinary research in the field of electromagnetic sensors and bioelectronics with a focus on application in the fields of biomedicine, molecular and cellular bioelectronics, biosensors, and security technology
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Research Area
Strongly correlated electron systems
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jörg Pretz
Institute of Physics III B
Research Area
experimental particle physics, measurement of permanent electric dipole moments in colliders, spin structure of the nucelon
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Research Area
Transport in semiconductor nanostructures and spin electronics
Institute II A
Peter Grünberg Institut, FZ Jülich
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Research Area
Phonons in thermoelectric materials, complex frustrated spin systems, neutron-X-ray scattering experiments, and Monte Carlo simulations
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Prof. Dr. N. Jon Shah, Institute of Neurosciene und Medicine (INM) - Medical Imaging Physics (INM-4)
Research Area
Development of new methods in the field of magnet resonance tomography (MRT), positron emission tomography (PET), and magnetoencephalography (MEG)
The focuses of the MR Physics Group are currently as follows:
- Development of MRI imaging sequences, specialized for neuroscientific applications in the field of structural and functional brain imaging, e.g. ultra fast MRI, diffusion tensor imaging and high contrast, high-resolution MRT
- Methodological development of quantitative /in vivo/ imaging and image processing of quantitative MR data for neuroscientific research
- Development of new imaging methods for /in vivo/ quantification of other MR of active cores in the brain, e.g. ^23 Na and ^17 O
- Development of high frequency multi-sectional bobbins for high-field MRT and for multimodal MR-PET imaging
- MR spectroscopy
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Prof. Dr. David P. DiVincenzo, Institute for Quantum Information (IQI)
Research Area
The Institute has both theoretical and experimental directions. It functions within the larger research environment of condensed matter theory and experiment at the department of physics of the RWTH Aachen.It is also closely tied to several departments, especially theoretical nanoelectronics at the Forschungszentrum Juelich, under the umbrella of the Juelich-Aachen Research Alliance (JARA)
Further Information
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Research Area
Nanoelectronics: Growth of semiconductor nanostructures, development of multiprobe STM techniques, charge transport through nanostructures
Further Information
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Apl. Prof. Dr. Maarten R. Wegewijs
Peter Grünberg Insitut (PGI), Theoretical Nanoelectronics (PGI-2/IAS-3)
Research area
Quantum information and dynamics of open quantum systems, Non-equilibrium quantum transport and renormalization methods, molecular electronics, molecular magnetism, nano-elector-mechanical systems
further information: Peter Grünberg Institute, FZ Jülich, Institute for Theoy of Statistical Physics und DFG Research Trainig Group (RTG1995)
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