Congratulations to Pamela Morales – passing her PhD defence with Distinction!
A huge congratulations to Pamela Morales in the Spin3D group, who successfully defended her PhD thesis at the TU Wien on the 18th August, passing with Distinction! Many of the Spin3D group travelled from Dresden to celebrate with Pamela, a real indication of how important she has been to the group!
During her PhD at the MPI CPfS in the Spin3D group, cosupervised by Amalio Fernandez Pacheco at the TU Wien, Pamela studied freestanding double helix nanostructures with a variety of lab-based techniques and synchrotron measurements. Specifically, she applied magnetic force microscopy and nitrogen vacancy magnetometry to gain insight into domain wall configurations in these systems, and probing their reversal processes. Then, with many days and nights at the BESSY-II synchrotron, she harnessed time resolved scanning transmission X-ray microscopy to probe the dynamics of these domain walls in real space – revealing oscillatory modes of domain walls, and even the geometric propagation of domain walls through these chiral nanostructures.
Pamela Morales with her supervisors Claire Donnelly and Amalio Fernandez Pacheco
Pamela with her PhD defence committee
The Spin3D + friends cohort that met to celebrate Pamela’s defence in Vienna.
A big thank you to Amalio Fernandez Pacheco, with whom we have worked closely on the project, and to Peter Fischer of the Laurence Berkeley National Laboratory, Andrii Chumak of the University of Vienna, and Richard Wilhelm of the TU Wien for taking part in the defence committee.
As our Spin3D group moves to Zurich, and Pamela moves on to her next position at the Max Born Institute in Berlin where she will continue to investigate magnetization dynamics, moving to the ultrafast regime, we wish her all the best, and look forward to seeing her grow in her career.
Congratulations Pamela!!
