Wohlfarth Lectureship

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The Wohlfarth Memorial Lecture, and the Wohlfarth Lectureship, is a lecture and prize given at the UK-based Institute of Physics' annual Magnetism Conference. It is named after Professor Erich Peter Wohlfarth, in honour of his "outstanding contribution [...] to the field of magnetism". [1] It has been awarded since 1989.

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YearNameInstitutionLecture TitleConferenceLocation
2024Karin Everschor-Sitte University of Duisburg-Essen "Let’s TWIST Again: Topological Whirls In SpinTronics"Magnetism 2024Loughborough
2023Chiara Ciccarelli University of Cambridge "Extracting spin from an antiferromagnet at picosecond timescales"Magnetism 2023Manchester
2022Peter Wadley University of Nottingham "Controlling and utilising antiferromagnetic order"Magnetism 2022York
2021Volodymyr Kruglyak University of Exeter "Magnonics: Of Spins and Waves"Magnetism 2021Virtual
2020Aurelien Manchon Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CINaM"Spin-orbit physics at magnetic interfaces"Magnetism 2020Virtual
2019Julie GrollierCRNS/Thales France"Neuromorphic computing with spintronic nano-oscillators"Magnetism 2019Leeds
2018Gino HrkacUniversity of Exeter"ATOMs - Atomistic to Micromagnetic modelling: from permanent magnets to magnetic hybrid materials"Magnetism 2018Manchester
2017Andre Thiaville University of Paris-Sud "New Magnetic Materials Exploiting Chiral Interactions"Magnetism 2017York
2016Jöerg Wunderlich Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory"Antiferromagnetic spintronics: Large magnitude magneto-resistance effects and current controlled switching"Magnetism 2016Sheffield
2015 Laura Heyderman ETH Zurich/Paul Scherrer Institute "Shedding light on artificial ferroic systems"Magnetism 2015Leeds
2014Atsufumi Hirohata University of York "Nano-Spintronic Devices"Magnetism 2014Manchester
2012 Steven Bramwell University College London
2011Christopher Marrows University of Leeds
2010Guido Meier University of Hamburg
2009 Stephen Blundell University of Oxford
2008Matthias Bode University of Hamburg/Argonne National Laboratory
2007 Caroline Ross Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2006Stuart Parkin IBM
2005 Thomas Schrefl University of Sheffield
2004Bob Stamps University of Western Australia
2003Amanda Petford-Long University of Oxford
2002Wolfgang Wernsdorfer Lab Louis Néel, Grenoble
2000Russell Cowburn Durham University
1999Tony Bland University of Cambridge
1998Stephen Hayden University of Bristol
1997Mary Doerner IBM Almaden
1996 David Awschalom University of California, Santa Barbara
1995 Dominique Givord Lab Louis Néel, Grenoble
1994 Roy Chantrell Bangor University
1993 Peter Grünberg Forschungszentrum Jülich
1992 Rolf Allenspach IBM Research – Zurich
1990R. CoehoornPhilips Research Labs, Eindhoven
1989 Piers Coleman Rutgers University

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  1. "Professor Erich Peter Wohlfarth and the Wohlfarth Lecture Series | Institute of Physics". www.iop.org. Retrieved 2025-01-27.