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Bachelor

2017

  1. Disselkamp, Constantin, 28.04.2017 - 27.07.2017
     Modelling in-plane spin currents in atomistic spin dynamics (PDF, 5 MB)
    Co-Supervisor: Gideon Müller, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  2. Orland, Fabian, 28.03.2017 - 27.06.2017
    Comparative study of highly scalable parallel eigensolvers used in electronic structure calculations
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Müller, Prof. Dr. Paolo Bientinesi, RWTH-Aachen
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Wortmann, Dr. Uliana Alekseeva

2010

  1. Steinbach Moritz, 15.06.2010 – 14.09.2010
    Magnon-Phonon Wechselwirkung in atomaren Ketten
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. M. Lezaic, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen 

2009

  1. Zielinski Jonas, 18.05.2009 – 17.08.2009
    Tight-binding Modell einer eindimensionalen atomaren Kette
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Y. Mokrousov, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

Master

2021

  1. Johannes Wasmer, 14.10.2020 – 13.10.2021
    Development of a surrogate machine learning model for the acceleration of density functional calculations with the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method

    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Philipp Rüßmann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  2. Jörn Stöhler, 01.10.2020 – 30.09.2021
    FLAPW-Implementierung der Bethe-Salpeter-Gleichung zur Berechnung von Absorptionsspektren
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Christoph Friedrich, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  3. Wonjae Jo, 01.10.2020 – 30.09.2021
    Ab-initio characterisation of the hidden order in Kitaev-type materials
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Marjana Lezaic, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  4. Rubel Mozumder, 15.09.2020 – 14.09.2021
    Design magnetic interactions in rare earth doped topological insulators
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Philipp Rüßmann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  5. Dmitrii Tolmachev, 01.02.2020 – 31.01.2021
    Weiterentwicklung des Atomistischen Spindynamik Computer codes “SPIRIT"
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  6. Zhenwen Xu, 13.01.2020 – 12.01.2021
    Spin-orbit effects in thin films from tight binding approximation
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

2020

  1. Robin Hilgers, 01.09.2019 – 31.08.2020
    Extension of FLAPW method to fully-unconstrained treatment of non-collinear magnetism in the muffin-tin sphere
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  2. Alexander Neukirchen, 01.08.2019 – 31.07.2020
    Implementation and Application of a source-free exchange correlation field for magnetic materials in an all-electron method
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Gustav Bihlmayer, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  3. Uriel Aceves, 01.05.2019 – 30.04.2020
    Theoretical investigation of the emergence of Majorana states in nanostructures
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Samir Lounis, RWTH Aachen

  4. Donya Mazhjoo, 01.04.2019 – 31.03.2020
    Magnetische Zweidimensionale Materialien
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Gustav Bihlmayer, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  5. Jonathan Kipp, 14.01.2019 – 13.01.2020
    Microscopic theory of orbital magnetism of chiral spin systems in relation to transport properties and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction
    Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yuriy Mokrousov, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

2019

  1. Andrea Hanke, 01.05.2018 – 30.04.2019
    Understanding electronic and structural properties of resistively switching oxides
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Marjana Lezaic, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  2. Moritz Sallermann, 23.04.2018 – 22.04.2019
    Studying magnetic interactions in noncollinear spin states
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Philipp Rüßmann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  3. Fabian Bertoldo, 19.02.2018 – 18.02.2019

    High-throughput investigation of the effect of impurities on the transport properties of topological insulators
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Philipp Rüßmann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  4. Johanna Paulina Carbone, 01.06.2019 – 31.10.2019
    Applying methods and generating physical results and focus on their analysis
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  5. Henning Janßen, 01.10.2018 – 30.09.2019
    Implementation of DFT+Hubbard-I approximation in FLAPW method and application to 4f adatoms
    Co-Supervisor: Markus Hoffmann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

2018

  1. Arjana I Gede, 01.11.2017 – 31.10.2018
     Interaction of Magnetic Skyrmions with Transition Metal Clusters (PDF, 15 MB)
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Samir Lounis, RWTH Aachen

  2. Maximilian Merte, 24.04.2017 – 23.04.2018
    Electric polarization driven by chiral magnetism
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  3. Matthias Redies, 24.04.2017 – 23.04.2018
    Orbital magnetism in chiral magnets exposed to intrinsic and extrinsic electric fields
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  4. Jens Rene Suckert, 15.02.2017 – 14.02.2018
    Spin-orbit driven transport properties of metallic thin films in the Terahertz regime
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Samir Lounis, RWTH Aachen

2017

  1. Fabian Lux, 11.04.2016 – 10.04.2017
    Higher-order Kubo response applied to orbital magnetism and Hall effects in chiral magnets
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yuriy Mokrousov, RWTH Aachen

  2. Steven Rendon Restrepo, 11.04.2016 – 10.04.2017
    Quasiparticle scattering states in Weyl Semimetals
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Phivos Mavropoulos, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  3. Luiz Felipe Aguinsky, 11.04.2016 – 10.04.2017
    First principles calculations of complex geometric phase effects in magnetic films
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yuriy Mokrousov, RWTH Aachen

2016

  1. Schürhoff Daniel, 16.11.2015 – 15.11.2016
     Atomistic Spin Dynamics with Real Time Control of Simulation Parameters and Visualisation (PDF, 5 MB)
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Nikolai Kiselev, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  2. Sascha Brinker, 26.10.2015 – 25.10.2016
     First-principles investigation of charge and spin currents in magnetic nanostructures (PDF, 24 MB)
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Manuel dos Santos Dias, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Samir Lounis, RWTH Aachen

  3. Max Nusspickel, 10.10.2015 – 09.10.2016
    Application of the exact exchange functional of density functional theory to magnetic metals within the FLAPW method
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Markus Betzinger, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

2015

  1. Bröder Jens, 01.10.2014 – 30.09.2015
    Density Functional Theory Simulations on Tungsten and Beryllium Alloys for ITER
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Wortmann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  2. Kirchmair Johannes, 01.10.2014 – 30.09.2015
    Berechnung von RPA-Spektren mittels Wannier-Interpolation
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. C. Friedrich, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  3. Müller Gideon, 01.10.2014 – 30.09.2015
    Exploring the energy landscape of skyrmions
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Nikolai Kiselev, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  4. Ohs Nicholas, 01.10.2014 – 30.09.2015
    Tight-binding models of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  5. Aboulouz Emad, 01.02.2014 – 31.01.2015
    Spin scattering of topologically protected electrons at defects by the relativistic Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Green function method
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Phivos Mavropoulos, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

2014

  1. Dörr Kerstin, 01.10.2013 – 30.09.2014
    Electronic Structure of Pyrochlore Iridates from First Principles
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. M. Lezaic, RWTH Aachen

  2. Buhl Patrick, 01.10.2013 – 30.09.2014
    Models, realization and properties of Weyl metals
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yuriy Mokrousov, RWTH Aachen

  3. Hanke Jan-Philipp, 01.10.2013 – 25.09.2014
    Generalized Wannier functions for a description of multi-parameter ab initio Hamiltonians
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Y. Mokrousov, Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  4. Xu Lei, 01.05.2013 – 31.04.2014
    Electronic and magnetic properties of strained CoPt3 films from first principles
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. M. Lezaic, RWTH-Aachen

  5. Rüßmann Philipp, 01.04.2013 – 31.03.2014
    Electron scattering by defects at interfaces of strong spin-orbit solids
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

    2013

  6. Bouaziz Juba, 01.03.2012 – 15.09.2013
    Langreichweitige Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Wechselwirkungen vermittelt durch spinaufgespaltete Rashba Elektronen
    Supervisor: Dr. S. Lounis, Universität Mouloud Mammeri, Tizi-Ouzou, Algerien

  7. Czaja Philippe, 01.07.2012 – 31.03.2013
    Ab-initio Berechnung der orbitalen Magnetisierung in ungeordneten Festkörpern
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Y. Mokrousov, RWTH-Aachen

    2011

  8. Weischenberg Jürgen, 01.10.2010 – 17.11.2011
     Multi-Band Side-Jump Scattering Contribution to Anomalous Hall Conductivity from Ab Initio (PDF, 4 MB)
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, Prof. Dr. Y. Mokrousov, RWTH-Aachen 

Müller Mathias Christian Thomas David, 01.09.2010 – 31.08.2011
Calculation of the full-selfenergy matrix within the GW approximation
Co-Supervisor: Dr. C. Friedrich, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

Diploma Theses

2013

  1. Tillmanns Konstantin, 15.10.2012 - 01.08.2013
    Magnetic phase transitions from electronic structure theory
    Supervisor: Dr. Ph. Mavropoulos

2012

  1. Klüppelberg Daniel Aaron, 01.07.2010 – 01.02.2012
     Calculation of stress tensor within the ab-initio full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method (PDF, 756 kB)
    Co-Supervisor Prof. Dr. Marjana Lezaic, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel

2011

  1. Kordt Pascal, 01.09.2010 – 31.01.2012
     Single-Site Green-Function of the Dirac Equation for Full-Potential Electron Scattering (PDF, 3 MB)
    Co-Supervisor Dr. R. Zeller, Supervisor Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  2. Schweflinghaus Benedikt Johannes, 26.04.2010 – 31.10.2011
     Ab initio investigation of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in transition-metal chains deposited on Platinum step-edges (PDF, 4 MB)
    Co-Supervisor Dr. Bihlmayer, Supervisor Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

2010

  1. Adolphs Clemens, 01.10.2009 – 30.09.2010
    Exact Diagonalization of strongly Correlated Systems
    Supervisor: Herr PD Dr. E. Koch, RWTH-Aachen

  2. Schena Timo, 01.07.2009 – 30.06.2010
     Tight-Binding Treatment of Complex Magnetic Structures in Low-Dimensional Systems (PDF, 4 MB)
    Co-Supervisor: Dr C. Barreteau (CEA, Orsay), Dr. Ph. Mavropoulos, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  3. Zimmermann Bernd, 01.04.2009 – 31.03.2010
     Calculation of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in ultrathin magnetic Films: Cr/W(110) (PDF, 4 MB)
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. G. Bihlmayer, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

    2008

  4. Hirschfeld Julian, 01.12.2007 – 30.11.2008
     Tomographic Problems in the Diagnostics of Fuel Cell Stacks (PDF, 2 MB)
    Berichte des Forschungszentrums Jülich 4291; ISSN 0944-2952
    Supervisor: PD. Dr. H. Lustfeld, Universität Duisburg-Essen,

  5. Bauer David, 17.09.2007 – 16.09.2008
     Atomistic Spin-Dynamics in Confined Magnetic Nano-Structures (PDF, 8 MB)
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Ph. Mavropoulos, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  6. Baumeister Paul, 01.02.2007 – 31.01.2008
     First Principles Calculations of Quantum Transport Properties through PI-Conjugated Molecules (PDF, 2 MB)
    Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. T. Ono (Osaka), Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel

    2007

  7. Betzinger Markus, 01.10.2006 – 30.09.2007
     Efficient Implementation of the Non-Local Exchange Potential within the FLAPW Method (PDF, 2 MB)
    Co-Supervisor Dr. C. Friedrich, Supervisor Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  8. Hanuschkin Alexander, 01.06.2006 – 13.07.2007
     Investigation of Image Potential States with the Green Function Embedding Technique (PDF, 19 MB)
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. D. Wortmann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  9. Heers Swantje, 01.06.2006 – 15.07.2007
     Influence of exchange and correlation on the conductance in semi-infinite scattering setups (PDF, 1 MB)
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. A. Schindlmayr, Dr. D. Wortmann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  10. Gierlich Andreas, 01.04.2006 – 31.03.2007
     Treatment of Electronic Correlation in Magnetic Materials within the Fluctuation-Exchange Method (PDF, 2 MB)
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. A. Schindlmayr, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

    2006

  11. Dolfen Andreas, 01.10.2005 – 30.09.2006
     Massively parallel exact diagonalization of strongly correlated systems (PDF, 4 MB)
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, Co-Supervisor: PD Dr. E. Koch, RWTH-Aachen

    2003

  12. Niesert Manfred, 01.09.2002 – 02.09.2003
     Ab initio calculations of the optical properties of phase-change materials (PDF, 1 MB)
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

    2000

  13. Förster Friedrich 1999 – 2000
     Untersuchung von nichtkollinearem Magnetismus in ultradünnen Filmen (PDF, 3 MB)
    Supervisor: PD Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  14. Wortmann Daniel, -2000
     Elektronentheorie zur Beschreibung von Rastertunnel-Mikroskopie und -Spektroskopie von magnetischen Metalloberflächen (PDF, 2 MB)
    Universität Dortmund

    1997

    Kurz Philipp, - 01.1997
     Non-Collinear Magnetism of Ultrathin Magnetic Films (PDF, 1 MB)
    Supervisor: PD. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

    1996

    Pentcheva Rossitza 1995 – 10.1996
     Ab initio Rechnungen zum Zusammenhang zwischen Magnetismus und Struktur ultradünner Filme (PDF, 2 MB)
    Jülich Report 3364 ISSN 0944-2952, Okt. 1996
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Eberhardt, PD. Stefan Blügel, Universität zu Köln

Ph.D. Theses

2024

  1. David Antognini Silva, 01.11.2020 – 31.01.2024
    Ab initio Bogoliubov-de Gennes calculations for topological superconductors
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Philipp Rüßmann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

2023

  1. Alexander Neukirchen, 01.10.2020 – 31.12.2023
    Phonon-magnon scattering in the FLAPW method via density-functional perturbation theory
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Gustav Bihlmayer, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  2. Robin Hilgers, 01.09.2020 – 30.11.2023
    Prediction of magnetic materials for energy and information combining data-analytics and first-principles theory
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Wortmann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  3. Uriel Aceves, 07.09.2020 – 06.11.2023
    Coexistence of trivial/non-trivial topological states and spin-flip excitations in magnetic nanostructures deposited on superconducting surfaces
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Samir Lounis, RWTH Aachen

  4. Daniela Ivanova, 01.10.2020 – 30.09.2023
    High-throughput calculations and data analytics to accelerate property maps of solids
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Wortmann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  5. Donya Mazhjoo, 13.07.2020 – 12.09.2023
    Ab-initio investigations of spin-orbit functionalized graphene
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Gustav Bihlmayer, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  6. Jonathan Kipp, 15.05.2020 – 14.08.2023
    Transport properties of dynamical large-scale spin textures for neuromorphic computing
    Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yuriy Mokrousov, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  7. Johanna Paulina Carbone, 01.02.2020 – 30.04.2023
    Non-trivial Magnetization Textures in 2D-Materials involving Rare Earths
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Gustav Bihlmayer, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  8. David Gustin, 01.02.2020 – 30.04.2023
    Spin-Orbit Entangled States in Complex Oxides

    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Marjana Lezaic, Dr. Regina Dittmann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  9. Henning Janßen, 14.10.2019 – 13.01.2023
    Investigation of magnetic structures in rare-earth compounds applying DFT+Hubbard-1 model
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Gustav Bihlmayer, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

2022

  1. Moritz Sallermann, 01.06.2019 – 31.08.2022
    Investigation of Hopf solitons in chiral magnets
    Co-Supervisor: Markus Hoffmann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  2. Vasily Tseplyaev, 01.10.2018 – 31.03.2022
    High-throughput investigation of low-dimensional chiral magnets by first-principles methods
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Bernd Zimmermann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

2021

  1. Vladyslav Kuchkin, 01.08.2018 – 31.10.2021
    Theory of hybrid magnetic solitons in chiral magnets
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Nikolai Kiselev, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  2. Maximilian Merte, 01.07.2018 – 30.09.2021
    Microscopic theory of electrically- and laser-induced orbital dynamics in antiferromagnets
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yuriy Mokrousov, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

  3. Matthias Redies, 01.07.2018 – 30.09.2021
    Parallel implementation and evalution of hybrid exchange-correlation functionals on exascale high-performance computers
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Wortmann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  4. Stefan Rost, 01.04.2018 – 30.06.2021
    Elektronische Struktur und Quantentransport in 2D Materialien, inklusive topologischen Isolatoren, mit Betonung von Streuung
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  5. Hanan Hamamera, 01.03.2018 – 28.02.2021
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Samir Lounis, RWTH Aachen

  6. Sufyan Shehada, 01.11.2018 – 31.10.2021
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Samir Lounis, RWTH Aachen

  7. Anoop Kaithalikunnel Chandran, 01.07.2018 – 30.09.2021
    Photovoltaic Device inspired Materials Search: Focus on Metal-Halide Perovskites
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Irene Aguilera, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  8. Lichuan Zhang, 05.03.2018 – 31.03.2021
    First-principles study of energy transport in magnetic materials
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

2020

  1. Fabian Lux, 01.07.2017 – 30.09.2020
    Transport properties and topological characterization of two- and three-dimensional topological magnetization solitons
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Yuriy Mokrousov, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

2019

  1. Jens Bröder, 01.11.2015 – 31.01.2019
    Ab-initio approach to fusion relevant material problems
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Wortmann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  2. Sascha Brinker, 01.11.2015 – 31.01.2019
    Ab-initio investigation of dynamical currents in magnetic nanstructures on surfaces
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Samir Lounis, RWTH Aachen

  3. Christian-Roman Gerhorst, 01.11.2015 – 31.01.2019
    Density functional perturbation theory within the all-electron full-potential linearized augmented planewave method: application to phonons
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  4. Jannis Ehrlich, 01.08.2018 – 31.07.2019
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  5. Miriam Hinzen, 01.04.2016 – 31.03.2019
    Robust methods for achieving self-consistency in large-scale ab-initio quantum mechanical calculations
    Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eduardo Di Napoli, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  6. Gideon Philipp Müller, 01.02.2016 – 30.01.2019
    Formation and stability of particle like states localized in three-dimensional magnetic systems
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Nikolai Kiselev, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

2018

  1. Buhl, Patrick Markus, 01.02.2015 – 31.12.2018
    Transport in globally chiral and locally complex magnetic sturctures
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yuriy Mokrousov, RWTH Aachen

  2. Dos Santos Flaviano José, 01.04.2014 – 31.03.2018
    Dynamical spin-excitations in magnetic thin films and surfaces
    Supervisor: Dr. S. Lounis, RWTH-Aachen

  3. Dörr Kerstin, 01.12.2014 – 28.02.2018
    Interplay of spin-orbit coupling, correlation and magnetism in Iridium compounds
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. M. Lezaic, RWTH Aachen

  4. Bornemann Marcel, 01.12.2014 – 28.02.2018
    Investigation of electronic structure and energetics of inhomogeneous solids in large real space models
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. R. Zeller, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

2017

  1. Hanke Jan-Philipp, 01.10.2014 – 31.12.2017
    Transport properties and topological characterization of chiral magnetic structures from advanced ab-initio techniques
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yuriy Mokrousov, RWTH Aachen

  2. Gibertini Marta, 01.06.2014 – 31.08.2017
    Ab initio investigation of properties and processes relevant to resistive switching in HfO2
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  3. Bouaziz Juba, 01.05.2014 – 31.07.2017
    Theoretical investigation of dynamical spin-excitations in impurities deposited on topological insulators
    Supervisor: Dr. S. Lounis, RWTH-Aachen

  4. Rüßmann Philipp, 01.05.2014 – 31.07.2017
    Spin scattering of topologically protected electrons at defects
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Phivos Mavropoulos, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  5. Hoffmann Markus, 17.03.2014 – 16.06.2017
    Ab-initio Investigation of Skyrmions in thin films
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

2016

  1. Müller Mathias Christian Thomas David, 01.09.2013 – 30.11.2016
     Spin-wave excitations and electron-magnon scattering in elementary ferromagnets from ab initio many-body perturbation theory (PDF, 6 MB)
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. C. Friedrich, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  2. Geranton Guillaume, 01.07.2013 – 30.09.2016
    Spin-torque driven dynamics and excitation of chiral magnets from first-principles
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Y. Mokrousov, RWTH-Aachen

  3. Bhat Kaustubh, 01.06.2013 – 31.08.2016
    Theoretical investigation of the ionic conductivity of the solid electrolyte
    Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. H. Lustfeld, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  4. Friedrich Rico, 01.04.2013 – 29.06.2016
     Ab initio investigation of hybrid molecular-metallic interfaces as a tool to design surface magnetic properties for molecular spintronics (PDF, 68 MB)
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. N. Atodiresei, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

2015

  1. Klüppelberg Daniel Aaron, 01.04.2012 – 30.06.2015
    First-principle investigation of displacive response in complex solids
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Markus Betzinger, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  2. Weischenberg Jürgen, 15.12.2011 – 14.03.2015
    Transport in systems with broken scalar and vector spin chirality from first principles
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Y. Mokrousov, RWTH Aachen

  3. Schweflinghaus Benedikt, 01.11.2011 – 13.11.2015
    First-principles investigation of inelastic magnetic excitations in nanostructures deposited on surfaces
    Supervisor: Jun.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Samir Lounis, RWTH Aachen

  4. Neroni Andrea, 01.11.2011 – 31.01.2015
    Ab-initio investigations of multiferroic nanojunctions
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. M. Lezaic, RWTH-Aachen

  5. Jokar Jeiran, 20.10.2011 – 19.01.2015
    Nicht-adiabatische Näherungen in zeitabhängiger Dichtefunktionaltheorie
    Supervisor: Dr. N. Helbig, RWTH-Aachen

  6. Rossen Siebe, 10.01.2011 – 01.01.2015

2014

  1. Jacobsson Adam, 01.07.2009 – 10.03.2015
    Magnon-Phonon interaction from first-principles density functional theory
    Supervisor: Dr. M. Lezaic, Uppsala University

  2. Schena Timo, 18.07.2011 – 18.10.2014
    Surfaces and defects of materials for photovoltaic applications
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  3. Rabel Elias, 01.07.2011 – 30.09.2014
    Electronic properties of nano-scale structural defects in resistively switching chalcogenides investigated by the order-N Korringa-Kohn-Rostocker Green-function method
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. R. Zeller, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  4. Zimmermann Bernd, 15.07.2010 - 06.05.2014
    Ab initio description of transverse transport due to impurity scattering in transition-metals
    Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Y. Mokrousov, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen


2013

  1. Callsen Martin, 01.09.2010 – 10.12.2013
    Ab initio design of switchable molecular units for molecular electronics
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. N. Atodiresei, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  2. Michalicek Gregor, 15.05.2010 - 30.10.2013
    Development of an efficient Full-Potential Linearized Augmented Plane Wave Method
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

2012

  1. Popova Darya, 01.08.2009 – 19.03.2013
    Quantitative Description of the Inverse Faraday Effect
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. A. Bringer, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  2. Schlipf Martin, 01.06.2008 – 29.02.2012
     Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof Screened-Exchange Hybrid Functional for Complex Materials: All-Electron Implementation and Application (PDF, 10 MB)
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. M. Lezaic, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  3. Baumeister Paul, 01.07.2008 – 13.02.2012
     Real-Space Finite-Difference PAW Method for Large-Scale Applications on Massively Parallel Computers (PDF, 29 MB)
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. D. Wortmann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  4. Bauer David, 01.04.2009 – 31.11.2012
    Development of a relativistic full-potential first-principles multiple scattering Green function method applied to complex magnetic textures of nano structures at surfaces
    Co-Supervisor: Dr. Ph. Mavropoulos, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  5. Hirschfeld Julian, 01.03.2009 – 29.06.2012
     Ab initio investigation of ground-states and ionic motion in particular in zirconia-based solid-oxide electrolytes (PDF, 15 MB)
    Co-Supervisor Prof. Dr. H. Lustfeld, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, University of Duisburg-Essen

2011

  1. Lorenz Boris, 01.08.2008 – 29.07.2011
    Contact Mechanics and Friction of Elastic Solids on Hard and Rough Substrates
    Supervisor: Dr. B. N. J. Persson

  2. Thieß Alexander, 01.01.2008 – 30.06.2011
     Development and application of a massively parallel KKR Green function method for large scale systems (PDF, 14 MB)
    ECOSS Prize 2008 for "Best Student Lecture" 2008, Supervisor Dr. R. Zeller

  3. Betzinger Markus, 01.12.2007 – 05.07.2011
     Orbital-dependent exchange-correlation functionals in density-functional theory realized by the FLAPW method (PDF, 8 MB)
    Supervisor: Dr. C. Friedrich

  4. Heers Swantje, 15.10.2007 – 20.04.2011
     Effect of spin-orbit scattering on transport properties of low-dimensional dilute alloys (PDF, 4 MB)
    Supervisor: Dr. Ph. Mavropoulos

  5. Rahmanizadeh Kourosh, 01.08.2006 – 02.02.2011
     FerroelectricMaterials with Interfaces: First Principles Calculations (PDF, 3 MB)
    Supervisor: Dr. G. Bihlmayer, RWTH-Aachen

  6. Niesert Manfred, 01.12.2003 – 20.05.2011
     Ab initio Calculations of Spin-Wave Excitation Spectra from Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory (PDF, 3 MB)
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  7. Gierlich Andreas, 01.05.2007 – 15.03.2011
     All-Electron GW Calculations for Perovskite Transition-Metal Oxides (PDF, 3 MB)
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, Dr. A. Schindlmayr, Dr. C. Friedrich, RWTH Aachen

  8. Freimuth Frank, 01.06.2006 – 02.02.2011
     An Efficient Full-Potential Linearized Augmented-Plane-Wave Electronic Structure Method for Charge and Spin Transport through realistic Nanoferronic Junctions (PDF, 11 MB)
    Supervisor: Dr. D. Wortmann, RWTH-Aachen

2010

  1. Dolfen Andreas, 01.11.2006 – 23.09.2010
     Strong Electronic Correlations in Low-Dimensional Systems (PDF, 10 MB)
    Supervisor: PD Dr. E. Koch, RWTH-Aachen

2009

  1. Al-Zubi Ali, 15.07.2006 – 14.07.2009
     Ab initio investigations of magnetic properties of ultrathin transition-metal films on 4d substrates (PDF, 5 MB)
    Supervisor: Dr. G. Bihlmayer, RWTH-Aachen

2008

  1. Yang Chunyan, 01.04.2005 – 31.03.2008

     Role of Surface Roughness in Tribology: From Atomic to Macroscopic Scale (PDF, 5 MB)
    Supervisor: Dr. B. Persson, TU Berlin

  2. Woodford Simon, 01.10.2005 – 30.09.2008
     Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics (PDF, 3 MB)
    Supervisor: Dr. Andreas Bringer, Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, RWTH Aachen

2006

  1. Lounis Samir, 01.05.2003 – 15.07.2006
     Theory of Magnetic Transition Metal Nanoclusters on Surfaces (PDF, 3 MB)
    Co-Supervisor: Prof. P. H. Dederichs, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

  2. Heide Markus, 01.04.2001 - 28.02.2006
     Magnetic domain walls in ultrathin films: Contribution of the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction (PDF, 2 MB)
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, Prof. Dr. Peter Heinz Dederichs, RWTH Aachen

2005

  1. Mokrousov Yuri, 15.02.2002 – 24.05.2005
     Ab initio All-electron Full-potential Linearized Augmented Plane-wave Method for One-dimensional Systems (PDF, 5 MB)
    Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel, Prof. Dr. Peter Heinz Dederichs, RWTH Aachen

  2. Lezaic Marjana, 15.02.2002 – 24.05.2005
     Spin-gap Materials from First Principles: Properties and Applications of Half-metallic Ferromagnets (PDF, 7 MB)
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, Dr. Ph. Mavropoulos, RWTH-Aachen

2004

  1. Atodiresei Nicolae, 01.02.2001 – 15.05.2004
     First Principles Theory of Organic Molecules on Metal surfaces: Formate, 3-Thiophene-carboxylate and Glycinate on Cu(110) (PDF, 15 MB)
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. K. Schroeder, RWTH-Aachen

2003

  1. Wortmann Daniel, 01.03.2000 - 04.07.2003
     An Embedding Green Function Approach for Electron Transport through Interfaces (PDF, 4 MB)
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH-Aachen

2002

  1. Antons Armin 1999 – 2002
     First-Principles Investigation of Initial Stages of Surfactant Mediated Growth an the Si(111) Substrate (PDF, 15 MB)
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. K. Schroeder, RWTH-Aachen

  2. Berger Ralf 1996 – 2002
     Berechnung von Stufenkanten auf der As-bedeckten Si(111)-Oberfläche mit einem parallelisierten ab initio Programm (PDF, 16 MB)
    Supervisor: apl.Prof. Dr.rer.nat. K. Schroeder, Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat. P.H. Dederichs, RWTH Aachen

2001

  1. Kromen Winfried 1995 – 2001
    Die Projector Augmented Wave-Methode: Ein schnelles Allelektronenverfahren für die ab-initio-Molekulardynamik
    RWTH Aachen

2000

  1. Kurz Philipp 1996 - 2000
     Non-Collinear Magnetism at Surfaces and in Ultrathin Films (PDF, 5 MB)
    Supervisor: Dr. G. Bihlmayer, PD. Dr. S. Blügel, RWTH Aachen

  2. Heinze Stefan 1996 – 2000
     First-Principles Theory of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy applied to Transition-Metall Surfaces (PDF, 10 MB)

1998

  1. Montanari Barbara
     Density Functional Study of Organic Systems: Molecules, Polymers, and Crystals (PDF, 7 MB)
    Supervisor: Dr. R.O. Jones, Universität zu Köln

1996

  1. Engels Benedikt 1990 – 1996
     Ab initio Berechnung der (110) Oberfläche von III-V Halbleitern: Simulation von Rastertunnelmikroskopie-Aufnahmen (PDF, 9 MB)

  2. Hunsicker Stefan
     Structure and Spectroscopy of Charged and Neutral Clusters. A Density Functional Study (PDF, 15 MB)
    Supervisor: Dr. R.O. Jones, RWTH Aachen

  3. Richard Peter 1992 – 1996
    Banddiskontinuitäten an III-V-Halbleitergrenzflächen: Verspannungsabhängigkeit und Einfluß von Zwischenschichten

    Habilitations (Post-Doctoral Lectureships)

  4. Koch Erik Dr. 17. Juli 2006
    The doped Fullerenes: A family of strongly correlated systems
    Scientist at PGI, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Professorship recognized at RWTH Aachen University, Supervisor: Herr Prof. Dr. S. Blügel

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