Dear colleagues!

On March 5 ( Thursday) at 14:30 in the conference hall of the L.V. Kirensky Institute of Physics SB RAS (Akademgorodok, 50, building 38, main building) A physical seminar will be held on the topic: Understanding the Rules of Attraction and Its Complexity: Nano-Laminated Magnetic "MAX Phases".

Speaker: Michael Farle, professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), chairman of the magnetism community of the German Physical Society, supervisor of the megagrant " Promising natural nanolayer materials for energy conversion" (2019-2021), to be implemented at the Institute of physics SB RAS.

Everyone is welcome to attend!

Professor Michael Farle is the winner of the competition for grants of the Government of the Russian Federation intended to provide the state support for scientific research conducted under the supervision of leading scientists in Russian educational institutions of higher education, research institutions and state research centers of the Russian Federation (decision of the Council on Grants of the Government of the Russian Federation as of 08.11.2019.The theme of the project is “Promising natural nanolayer materials for energy conversion”.

He is chairman of the Magnetism Section of the German Physical Society; Editor of the scientific journals Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (“Magnetism and Magnetic Materials”) and Materials Research Letters (“Letters to the Journal of Material Science”); Member of the Administrative Committee and Elected Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society (Magnetic Community of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

Michael Farle received his diploma, Doctorate and Habilitation degrees in experimental physics from the Free University of Berlin. He worked as a senior researcher at Stanford University (California, USA) and the University of Strasbourg (France). In 1999, he moved to Braunschweig Technical University (Germany), where he became a full professor. Since 2002 he has been working as a professor at the University of Duisburg ‒ Essen (Germany), where he has also served as Vice-Rector for research. M. Farle coordinated two European Research Networks and served as the Vice-speaker of the Collaborative Research Center: Magnetic Heterostructures (SFB 491). In 2016, he became an adjunct professor at the I. Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad). In addition, he is an adjunct professor at the Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran).

M. Farle is known as one of the world's leading figures in the study of magnetism of ultrathin films. He achieved high results in the studies of collective and individual magnetic properties of nanoparticles. He described correlations of structural, chemical, morphological and magnetic properties, combining high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, energy-dispersive x-ray absorption, X-ray magnetic circular dichroism and electron magnetic resonance. He studied the synthesis, structure and properties of permanent magnets without rare earth elements.

During his scientific career, he has been the head and participant of competitive grants worth more than 10 million euros.

According to the assessment by the U.S. Institute of Scientific Information (Thomson Reuters, Web of Science search platform):

Since 1986, M. Farle has published 295 articles in the field of multidisciplinary materials science, applied physics and condensed matter physics, which has been cited more than 8,500 times. The Hirsch index is 46. The profiles of organizations related to his publications correspond to his main places of work: University of California, Free University of Berlin, University of Duisburg ‒ Essen, I. Kant Baltic Federal University. The vast majority of papers have been published in highly cited Q1 journals. A large number of studies were carried out in international cooperation with scientific organizations of the USA, Russia, France, Spain, Turkey, etc. The number of his co-authors amounts to 636. According to the data of the largest social network for scientists, M. Farle is included in 2.5 % of the best scientists in the world.