Tenure track assistant professor: Marcos Guimarães
Marcos Guimarães
University of Groningen
OptoSpintronics of Nanomaterials
Email: m.h.guimaraes@rug.nl
Project involvement
Project Leader for project 1.2B
Heterostructure engineering of hybrid materials based on transition metal dichalcogenides
Heterostructure engineering of hybrid materials based on transition metal dichalcogenides
Co-supervisor for project 2.2D / 4.2B
Opto-magnonic devices
On-chip coupling of light to spin and pseudo-spin
Student: Max van der Schans
Opto-magnonic devices
On-chip coupling of light to spin and pseudo-spin
Student: Max van der Schans
Short Biography
Guimarães focuses on the interplay between charge, spin/magnetism, and light in atomically-thin materials. His group explores the control over spin-orbit torques for the manipulation of magnetization and uses ultrafast magneto-optical techniques to study the behavior of spins and magnetism in low-dimensional structures. He pioneered the control of spin-orbit torques using low-symmetry two-dimensional materials and the demonstration of optically- generated spins in inversion symmetric van der Waals systems. He received the NWO Rubicon, Veni, and Start-Up grants, a Kavli Institute Fellowship, and an ERC Starting Grant. Guimarães is also part of the Young Academy Groningen.