Marcos Guimarães

Tenure track assistant professor: Marcos Guimarães

Marcos Guimarães

University of Groningen

OptoSpintronics of Nanomaterials

Email: m.h.guimaraes@rug.nl

Project involvement

Project Leader – QuMat.1-RUG-1.2B

Heterostructure engineering of Wte₂ / X Hybrid Materials

Student: Cédric Cordero Silis

Co-supervisor – QuMat.1-TUE-2.2D / 4.2B

Opto-magnonic devices
On-chip coupling of light to spin and pseudo-spin

Student: Max van de 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.