Research Interests

  • Spintronics
  • Spin caloritronics
  • Spin and orbital transport in thin films and nanostructures
  • Altermagnetism
  • Structural, magnetic and oxidic depth profiling of thin films and multilayers
  • Higher-order magneto-optics

Organisation: JGU > Faculty 08 > Institute of Physics > Group Condensed Matter Physics (KOMET) > Kläui-Lab
Research: JGU > Faculty 08 > Physics > Quantum Matter & Spintronics > Kläui-Lab

T. Kuschel investigates thin films and nanostructures with a focus on depth resolved properties as well as spin and orbital transport behaviours. Here, synchrotron-based x-ray resonant magnetic reflectivity (XRMR) and x-ray ferromagnetic resonance (XFMR) as well as lab-based x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) are employed. Studied materials are ferrimagnetic 3d metal oxides, Heusler compounds, antiferro- and altermagnets. Typical preparation techniques are molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), magnetron sputtering and pulsed laser deposition (PLD). In addition, magneto-optic effects of higher-order in magnetization are investigated.
2023 –
present		Lecturer and Scientific Coordinator of the State Research Center ’TopDyn’, Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
2023 –
2025		Substitute W2 professor, Faculty of Physics, Bielefeld University, Germany
2017 –
2023		Group leader (Habilitand), Faculty of Physics, Bielefeld University, Germany
2015 –
2017		Post-doc, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Groningen University, The Netherlands
2011 –
2015		Post-doc, Faculty of Physics, Bielefeld University, Germany
2007 –
2011		PhD in Physics, Department of Physics, Osnabrück University, Germany
2002 –
2007		Physics Diploma study, Department of Physics, Osnabrück University, Germany
  1. Experimentalphysik C, Physik der Kondensierten Materie
    Instructor: apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan; PD Dr. Timo Kuschel

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