Career Details

In 2013 I was awarded a PhD degree in Physics from University of Exeter, United Kingdom. My PhD project involved THz spectroscopy of magnetic materials and heterostructures. Then I started as a Postdoc at Radboud University in Nijmegen (the Netherlands), where I developed THz spin dynamics research line. In the last years I got inspired by the idea to use THz radiation not for detection, but for the control and even switching of spins in complex magnetic oxides. I joined the Physics Department in Lancaster in January 2019 to develop an independent research programme towards this goal.

PhD Supervision Interests

A fully funded PhD project is available in the area of spin dynamics in antiferromagnetic materials, in which spins precess on a picosecond (one trillionth of a second corresponds to THz frequency) timescale and strongly couple to electro-magnetic waves. To excite THz magnons we will use ultrashort strong electro-magnetic fields produced either by table-top ultrafast lasers or by electron bunches at electron-beam facilities of Cockroft Institute. We will push the driven spin dynamics into strongly nonlinear regime required for practical applications such as quantum computation or magnetization switching . We will investigate nonlinear interaction of intense and highly coherent magnons with an eye on reaching regimes of auto-oscillations, nonlinear frequency conversion and complete magnetization reversal. Please follow the link for more details https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/terahertz-magnonics/?p106475