Curriculum Vitae 
Steffen Wirth

  born: November 20, 1963 in Grimma ( Saxony, Germany)
  married, two daughters
basic education 
till 1980 High school in Grimma
1980 - 1983 vocational training as mechanical engineer
education (University) 
1985 - 1990 Study of physics at the Technical University Dresden , Germany
special training in the area of surface physics and electron microscopy
Aug. 1990 Diploma in Physics at TU Dresden 
''AES / SIMS - investigation of the deposition of Ni on Si and of the formation of Ni-silicids'' (in german) 
1990 - 1992 Research assistent at the Physical Institute of the College of Transportation Dresden (refounded as University of Applied Sciences, HTW Dresden)
Advisor: Prof. V. Christoph 
  • investigation of magnetization reversal in hard magnets
  • teaching of students
  • Oct. 1992 -
    Oct. 1995
    Research fellow at the Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW Dresden)
    Advisors: Dr. K.-H. Müller, Prof. L. Schultz
  • investigation of reversible and irreversible magnetization processes
  • intrinsic properties,
  • coercive mechanisms and 
  • magnetic viscosity in hard magnets
  • administration of PC, HP- and DEC-workstations, software and computer network
  • Oct. 1995 PhD in Physics at TU Dresden 
    ''Magnetization processes in polycrystalline hard magnets'' (in german)
    May 2009 German post doctoral lecturing qualification (Habilitation) in Physics and Reader at TU Dresden 
    ''Tunneling and Magnetotransport Properties of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems''
    important visits and awards
    Jan. - April
    1992
    work with Prof. J.M.D. Coey, Dept. of Physics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland,
    investigation of the structure and formation of interstitially modified rare-earth transition metal compounds
    (scholarship by CEAM, the Concerted European Action on Magnets)
    Jan. - March
    1993
    work with Dr. D. Givord at CNRS ''L. Néel'' Grenoble, France
    investigation of magnetic viscosity in hardmagnetic materials 
    (scholarship by CEAM) 
    April '97 -
    July '99
    Feodor Lynen fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, Germany 
    to support work with Dr. S. von Molnár at MARTECH, Florida State University
    2015 Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society
    2017 Fellow of the American Physical Society
    employment history
    Oct. 1995 - 
    April 1996 
    post-doc with Prof. J.M.D. Coey (magnetism) at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
    (TMR-grant within the framework of HCM of the EC) 
  • design and construction of a VSM using permanent magnets for field generation
  • hydrogenation of rare-earth transition-metal compounds
  • investigation of magnetocrystalline anisotropy
  • phase transitions in ferromagnetic Heusler-alloys
  • May 1996 -
    Oct. 1996
    Research fellow at the Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden 
    (IMW at IFW Dresden
  • magnetic properties and texture in rare-earth transition-metal compounds
  • anomalous magnetic aftereffect
  • Nov. 1996 -
    April 2000 
    post-doc with Dr. S. von Molnár at MARTECH, Florida State University
  • fabrication and investigation of nanometerscale magnetic particles
  • micro- and nanofabrication on thin films
  • transport and noise measurements on manganites and chromium dioxide
  • magnetization studies of manganites in high magnetic fields
  • STM, AFM, MFM, Hall magnetometry, photo- and e-beam lithography
  • May 2000 -
    presently 
    research fellow at the Max Planck-Institute for the Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany
    Oct. 2009 -
    Mar. 2010 
    visiting professor at the 1. Physics Institute of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
    lecture: Experimental Physics I
    since 2010  W2 position the Max Planck-Institute for the Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany
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