Burkard Hillebrands

Burkard Hillebrands (* 1957) is Professor of Physics at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and head of the Magnetism. Since 1 September 2006, he is Vice President for Research and Technology of the TU.

Academic career

Burkard Hillebrands studied 1977-1982 Physics at the University of Cologne and received his PhD in 1986. After a postdoctoral stay at the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona (USA), Hillebrands worked from 1988 to 1994 on the 2nd Physics Institute of the RWTH Aachen. There he completed his habilitation in 1993 with his work " Brillouin light scattering in artificially layered magnetic structures". In 1994 he accepted an appointment at the Physics Institute of the University of Karlsruhe, joined in 1995 as a professor at the University of Kaiserslautern. Since September 2006 he has been there also Vice President for Research and Technology.

Research

The research area of Burkard Hillebrands is magnetoelectronics. In particular, he works for spin dynamics and material properties of ultrathin magnetic films and multilayer systems. In the field of spin dynamics he conducts research especially on dynamic magnetic excitations in defined magnetic structures on the propagation of linear and nonlinear spin waves, at Magnonengasen, Magnonenkristallen and magnetic switches. Special methodological interest has Hillebrands at the space, time and phase -resolved Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy and time -resolved Kerr effects.

Awards

  • 2004: Fellow of the Institute of Physics (Great Britain)
  • 2005: IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer Award
  • 2010: Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • 2010: Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE)
  • 2010: Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz

Publications

Hillebrand has published more than 260 publications in refereed international journals in addition to patents and book chapters. He is also co-editor of the Springer book series TAP "Spin Dynamics in Confined Magnetic Structures"

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