People
Prof. Dr. Tamalika Banerjee
Professor, Group Leader
Room: 5113.0226
Tel.: (+31 50 36) 383 94
Mail: t.banerjee@rug.nl
TAMALIKA BANERJEE obtained her PhD from the University of Madras, India. She received her PhD degree in 2000 from the University of Madras, India, working on ‘Studying irradiation effects in high temperature superconductors’ for which she received the Best thesis award from the Indian Physics Association. She was a Visiting Scientist at the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT, USA where she worked on Magnetic Tunnel junctions, a key device in Spintronics and studied their radiation hardness. She was also a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India working on vortex dynamics in high temperature superconductors, before she joined the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. She pioneered a new technique to study spintronic devices on the nanometer scale which has been applied to different material systems and their devices. This was also used by Hitachi research labs. Other important contributions are on complementary Spintronics, studying non equilibrium hole (and electron transport) in magnetic tunnel junctions integrated on Si. In 2009 she joined the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials as a Rosalind Franklin Fellow and a VIDI grant. Since 2019 she is a full professor and chair of Spintronics of Functional Materials group. She is also a Scientific Associate Investigator, FLEET, ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies, Australia. Her current research focus is on studying emergent phenomena at quantum critical regions, exploiting strong correlation effects and topology in complex oxides, graphene and topological insulators. Their work is fundamental to the understanding and control of topological magnetism and relevant for the study and design of reconfigurable spintronics architecture for alternative computing applications. She is a Senior member of IEEE, member of several professional societies and serves regularly in Program committees of international conferences on Magnetism (IEEE). She is a Scientific Advisory Board member of the Lorentz Centre, Program Board member of the Cognigron Centre, member of the Steering group of NanolabNL and of the NWO Domain Science working group on Physics for Technology and Instrumentation. She is an Editorial Board Member of Advanced Physics Research (Wiley), of Scientific Reports (npj) and an Associate Editor (Nanoelectronics) in Frontiers in Nanotechnology journals. Her research is funded by NWO-VIDI, NWO-nano (FOM), NWO-DST, NWA and Dieptestrategie and CogniGron grants.
Current PhDs
Anouk Goossens
PhD: Sept. 2018-
Job van Rijn
PhD: Oct 2019-
Azminul Jaman
PhD: Oct 2020-
Ishitro Bhaduri
PhD: Sept 2023-
Current Master Student
Konstantinos (Kostas) Panagiotis Rompotis,
Nanoscience Top Master's
Former Members
Dr. Eswara Phanindra V
Post Doc: 2019-2021
Dr. Perihan Aksu
Visiting Post Doc: Tubitak (2021-2022)
PhD's in Spintronics of Functional Materials Group:
Ping Zhang
(PhD completed in 2023)
Topic: 'Magnetic anisotropy induced novel phenomenona in itinerant ferromagnet SrRuO3 thin films'
Si Chen
(PhD completed in 2022)
Topic: 'Charge and spin transport across graphene and multifunctional oxide interfaces'
Position: Johnson & Johnson, Groningen
Arjan Auke Burema
(PhD completed in 2021)
Topic: 'Angle-dependent magnetoresistance in epitaxially straine-engineered thin films'
Positions: TNO, now at ASML, Netherlands
Arijit Das
(PhD completed in 2021)
Topic: 'Spin transport across oxide semiconductors and antiferromagnetic oxide interfaces'
Positions: Post doc Spintech, Grenoble, now at IMEC-Leuven (Lithography)
Nilesh Awari
(PhD completed in 2019)
Topic: 'Near Fermi level dynamics in materials with THz spectroscopy'
Eric K. de Vries
(PhD completed in 2017)
Topic: 'Taking Topological Insulators for a spin'
Now Consultant Technical Innovations, PNO Consultants, Amsterdam
Roald Ruiter
(PhD completed in 2017)
Topic: 'Electric field modulation of spin and charge transport in two dimensional materials and complex oxide hybrids'
Now at Filsom AG, Switzerland
Sander A. M. Kamerbeek
(PhD completed in 2016)
Topic: 'Charge and spin transport in Nb-doped SrTiO3 using Co/AlOx spin injection contacts'
At UMCG, Groningen
Saurabh Roy
(PhD completed in 2015)
Topic: 'Engineering complex oxide interfaces for oxide electronics'
Now at Infineon Technologies, Villach, Austria
Kumari Gaurav Rana
(PhD completed in 2013)
Topic: 'Electron transport across complex oxide heterointerfaces'
Previously at Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Spintec, Grenoble
Currently at ASML, Netherlands
Subir Parui
(PhD completed in 2013)
Topic: 'Hot electron transport in metallic spin valve and graphene-silicon devices at the nanoscale'
Prevously at IMEC-Leuven, CIC-nanoGune-Spain
Currently at ASM, Leuven
Former Master students (listed only from 2018)
Ishitro Bhaduri (Nanoscience Top Master's)
Jhe-Ahn Lin (short project Nanoscience Top Master's)
Wissem Boubaker (Nanoscience Top Master's)
Mihai Andrei Frantiu (Nanoscience Top Master's)
Divyanshu Gupta (Exchange BITS-Pilani-Goa)
Donato Ottamano (short project Nanoscience Top Master's)
Yahia Mostafa (Nanoscience Top Master's)
Miina Leiviskä (Nanoscience Top Master's)
Adam Watson (Physics)
Job van Rijn (Applied Physics)
Bart Zillen (Applied Physics)
Arjan Burema (Nanoscience Top Master's)
Atreya Majumdar (Nanoscience Top Master's)
Bachelor students (last 4 years only)
Darius-Andrei Pacurar
Miranda Jacqueline Buil Contreras
Ayush Gupta
Symen Schilstra
Leander van der Zee
Alida Johanna van Hunnik
Wissem Boubaker
Yari Katar Knelissen
Ishitro Bhaduri
Mihai Andrei Frantiu
Miina Leiviskä
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