Prof. Dr. Philipp Pirro
Philipp Pirro is a Junior Professor at the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (RPTU) Kaiserslautern-Landau. His main scientific aim is to explore and combine emerging physical phenomena related to spin waves which can be used to realize novel magnonic hybrid systems with superior characteristics. Specifically, he has a particular focus on:
- Nonlinear spin-wave phenomena in micro- and nanostructures,
- Nanoscaled magnonic devices for unconventional data processing,
- Novel materials for magnonics including low-damping Heusler compounds,
- Hybrid systems combining magnonics with spintronic and phononic systems,
- Amplification and control of coherent spin-waves in micro-and nanostructures using parametric processes
He completed his PhD in Experimental Physicsin 2014 in the research group of Prof. Burkard Hillebrands at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany on the topic of “Linear and nonlinear interactions of spin waves in magnetic microstructures”. After a Post-doctoral stay in the field of all-optical switching of magnetization using ultrafast laser pulses in the group of Prof. Stéphane Mangin at the Institut Jean Lamour (IJL) in Nancy, he returned to Kaiserslautern to continue his research on microscopic and nanoscopic magnonic systems. In 2019, he became Junior Professor, leading his independent junior research group “Nanoscaled Magnonic Hybrids”.
His research team investigates magnonics systems experimentally by Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy and inductive techniques. To study and optimize magnonic systems before nano-fabrication, massively parallelized micromagnetic simulations are employed. These simulations are run and analyzed by the home-made AITHERICON software platform with the aim to use artificial intelligence, neural networks and inverse design methods to create magnonic systems with designed and superior properties for wave-based transport and data processing.
His research is currently funded by the ERC Starting grant “CoSpiN- Coherent Spintronic Networks for Neuromorphic Computing”. He is coordinating the Horizon Europe Project “M&MEMS” and is a participant in the Horizon Europe Project “SPIDER”. In addition, he is PI in several research projects of the Collaborative Research Center “Spin+X” of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is a joint Center between TU Kaiserslautern and the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.
Website: http://www.physik.uni-kl.de/pirro
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philipp-Pirro
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=s91NBtUAAAAJ&hl=de