Angela Wittmann

Angela received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2019. During her graduate studies, she was working on organic spintronics in the group of Prof. Henning Sirringhaus. For her postdoc, she joined Prof. Geoffrey Beach’s group at MIT (USA) in 2019 focusing on spintronic phenomena in antiferromagnetic thin films. Angela has moved to JGU Mainz in 2021 to start a new group exploring spintronic phenomena in novel and unconventional materials systems.

• E-Mail: a.wittmann@uni-mainz.de
• Office: Staudingerweg 7 01-634 (+49 6131 39 24895)

Ashish K Moharana

I did my master's in physics in the summer of 2021 at the National Institute of Science Education and Research in Bhubaneswar. In spring of 2022 I joined the group. Now my field of research is tuning spin orbit coupling in molecule-magnetic systems.

• E-Mail:moharana@uni-mainz.de
• Office: Staudingerweg 7 03-621

Julian Skolaut

I finished my bachelor's thesis in the fall of 2016 at the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) and stayed there for my master's thesis in winter 2019 and my PhD in summer 2022. I joined the group in the fall of 2022. I am interested in the magnetic domain structure of antiferromagnets and molecular magnetism and investigate it with X-ray techniques and nitrogen vacancy magnetometry.

• E-Mail: jskolaut@uni-mainz.de
• Office: Staudingerweg 9 02-219 (+49 6131 39 27571)

Simon Sochiera

I joined the group in the summer of 2022. In spring 2023 I finished my bachelor's thesis here. I use spin-Hall magnetoresistance as a tool to characterize the magnetic properties of interfaces.

• E-Mail: ssochier@students.uni-mainz.de
• Office: Staudingerweg 7 03-621

David Anthofer

I joined the group in the spring of 2023 and successfully completed my master’s thesis in the summer of 2024, where I worked on ferromagnetic resonance to study spin injection into hybrid molecule/metal systems. Now, as a PhD student, I am continuing my research on molecule/metal interfaces, expanding it to include various measurement techniques such as x-ray spectroscopy and NV-relaxometry.

• E-Mail: danthofe@students.uni-mainz.de
• Office: Staudingerweg 7 03-621

Sebastian Schultheis

I joined the group in May 2023 as a student assistant and finished my bachelor's thesis here in October 2023. I am currently helping the group process microscopy images of antiferromagnetic domain structure.

• E-Mail: seschult@students.uni-mainz.de
• Office: Staudingerweg 9 02-221 (+49 6131 39 27570)

Sophie Knewitz

I am a member of the group since spring 2023 and successfully completed my bachelor thesis there. Currently, I am implementing a heating element for the ferromagnetic resonance setup.

• E-Mail: sophie.knewitz@students.uni-mainz.de
• Office: Staudingerweg 9 02-219 (+49 6131 39 27571)

Vincent Marks

I joined the Group at the end of 2023 and look forward to writing my Bachelor's thesis here. I will work with spin Hall magnetoresistance measurements.

• E-Mail: vimarks@students.uni-mainz.de
• Office: Staudingerweg 0 02-219 (+49 6131 39 27571)

Lukas Cavar

I am a prospective PhD student with expertise in atomic force microscopy (AFM) method development. For my master's research, I implemented a phase-modulation technique to study the nanoscale low-frequency dielectric response in lead-halide perovskite photovoltaics. For my Ph.D., I hope to elucidate the formation- and stabilization-mechanisms of chiral spin-textures in antiferromagnets. From the experimental side, I will rely on scanning NV-center magnetometry of stray fields and x-ray-based direct domain imaging. From the theoretical side, I will work on modeling magnetoelastic exchange and the role it plays in the emergence of chiral order.

• E-Mail: lcavar@students.uni-mainz.de
• Office: Staudingerweg 9 02-219 (+49 6131 39 27571)

Parul Devi

I finished my Master's at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and then my Ph.D. at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids Dresden, Germany, in 2019. I joined the group in the summer of 2024. I am interested in studying spintronic phenomena in hybrid magnetic metal/organic semiconductor devices. I investigate the effect of interfacial charge transfer and hybridization effects at hybrid ferromagnetic metal/OSC interfaces by combining magnetotransport experiments with magnetic imaging techniques based on magneto-optical and scanning nitrogen-vacancy center magnetometry.

• E-Mail: pdevi@uni-mainz.de
• Office: Staudingerweg 7 03-621

Khang Vi Becker

I am a member of the group since fall 2023 and finished my bachelor's thesis here in spring 2024. I am currently continuing my work based on my bachelor's thesis, trying to visualize and analyze different magnetic textures in antiferromagnets.

• E-Mail: bkhangvi@students.uni-mainz.de
• Office: Staudingerweg 9 02-221 (+49 6131 39 27570)

Jonathan Ibig

I joined the group in the summer of 2024 as a Master's student. I finished my Bachelor's thesis in the summer of 2021 at the JGU Mainz. I am interested in the chiral-induced spin selectivity effect and  will be working with zone-casting to optimize the crystallization of chiral molecules.

• E-Mail: jibig@students.uni-mainz.de
• Office: Staudingerweg 9 02-221 (+49 6131 39 27570)

Tilman Schuler

I joined the group in November 2024, and I am looking forward to writing my bachelor's thesis soon. I focus on the optimization of metal thin film growth.

E-Mail: jschuler@students.uni-mainz.de