PI Prof. Dr. Dieter Suess is Full Professor and Head of the Physics of Functional Materials Group (FUN) at the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna.
He has coordinated 34 third-party funded research projects with a total budget of approximately €8 million. Prof. Suess has published more than 260 scientific papers and is the holder of 28 patent families. He has supervised 23 PhD students, of whom 17 have successfully graduated.
His research interests span a broad range of topics, including micromagnetic simulations, spin transport, magnonics, magnetic sensors, and additive manufacturing (3D printing) of magnets.
Prof. Suess proposed the concept of exchange spring media, which has been used in commercial hard disk drives since 2007. In collaboration with Infineon, within the framework of the Christian Doppler Laboratory he headed, he identified the main source of noise in GMR sensors.
He also proposed an innovative topological vortex structure that suppresses chaotic behavior in magnetic systems. This concept has been adopted by Infineon for industrial sensor applications and was nominated for the Houska Award.
