New Materials WG 1 Member, Functional Magnetic Materials, LINXS Fellow

Andreas Michels received his doctoral degree in 2001 from the Universität des Saarlandes, Germany. After postdoctoral stays at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany, the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, and Monash University, Australia, he obtained his habilitation degree in 2008 from the Universität des Saarlandes. Within the framework of an ATTRACT research fellowship of the National Research Fund of Luxembourg, he then built up a neutron scattering and magnetic materials group in the Department of Physics and Materials Science at the University of Luxembourg, where he is currently Associate Professor. His research interests are centered around the technique of magnetic small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). On the one hand side SANS is used for experimentally studying the spin structures of magnetic materials, e.g., Nd-Fe-B-based permanent magnets, shape-memory alloys, or magnetic nanoparticles, and on the other hand side theoretical and simulation work is carried out in order to understand and develop the fundamentals of magnetic SANS.