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Axel Hoffmann is the Founder Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He earned his Diplom degree in physics from RWTH Aachen in Germany in 1994 and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, San Diego in 1999. Following his doctorate, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1999 to 2001. In 2001, he joined Argonne National Laboratory as a staff scientist, advancing to Senior Group Leader of the Magnetic Thin Film Group in 2014, a position he held until 2019 when he moved to the University of Illinois.
Hoffmann’s research encompasses magnetism-related topics, including the basic properties of magnetic heterostructures, spin transport in novel geometries, and magnetization dynamics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Vacuum Society, and IEEE. He has edited books such as Topology in Magnetism (Springer, 2018) and Recent Advances in Magnetic Insulators – From Spintronics to Microwave Applications (Academic Press, 2013). Hoffmann served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Physics from 2009 to 2025. His contributions include extensive publications on spin-orbit torques, magnonics, and related phenomena in condensed matter physics.
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