Prof. Dr. Albert Fert

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsExperimental Condensed Matter Physics
Keywordsspintronics, spin-dependent transport, nanomagnetism, skyrmions

Current contact address

CountryFrance
CityPalaiseau
InstitutionCNRS -Thales (UMR 137) - Laboratoire Albert Fert

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ingrid MertigInstitut für Physik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale)
Prof. Dr. Stefan BlügelInstitut für Festkörperforschung (IFF), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Roland WiesendangerInstitut für Angewandte Physik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Dieter WeissInstitut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg
Prof. Dr. Christian H. BackInstitut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2015

Programme(s)

2014Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Albert Fert is - together with Peter Grünberg - the 2007 Nobel laureate in Physics for the discovery of the giant magnetoresistance. This discovery has opened the rapidly growing research field of spintronics and has had an immense impact on information technology. Professor Fert continues to stimulate the field of spintronics with seminal contributions on oxide spintronics, the generation of spin currents and magnetic skyrmions. His contributions cover cutting-edge experiments combined with the development of basic phenomenological models. His Humboldt research project is dedicated to these issues.