Burkard Hillebrandsis full professor of experimental physics at the University of Kaiserslautern. He was born in 1957 in Hattingen, Germany,and hereceived his diploma in physics in 1982 and his PhD in physics in 1986 from the University of Cologne. His studies were supported by a stipend of the Studienstiftung des DeutschenVolkes. After a postdoctoral stay at the Optical Sciences Center in Tucson, Arizona he received his habilitation from RWTH Aachen in 1993. He was employed as an associate professor at the University of Karlsruhe in 1994. In 1995 he accepted a full professor position at the University of Kaiserslautern. 2006–2014 he served as Vice President for Research, Technology and Innovation of University of Kaiserslautern.2016-2017, in addition to his research work at the University of Kaiserslautern, he served as Scientific Director and Executive Board of the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden.
His research field is experimental magnetism. His special interests are in spin dynamics and magnonics, and in material properties of magnetic films and nanostructures. In the field of magnonics he is particularly interested in the fundamental properties and applications of magnons (quanta of spin waves). This ranges from research topics such as nonlinear magnonic phenomena, magnonic crystals, magnon gases, magnon condensates and magnonic supercurrent phenomena to applications in novel information technologies such as magnon logics. His particular technical interest is in the development of space-, time- and phase resolved Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy and time resolved Kerr effect techniques.
He is member, Chair of the Class of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and Vice Presidentof the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. He is IEEE Fellow, APS Fellow and Fellow of the Institute of Physics, London. In 2005 he was Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society. In 2016 he received an ERC Advanced Grant of the European Commission. He serves on the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Magnetics Society and is Honors&Awards Chair. Starting 2018 he serves as chair of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, Commission C9:Magnetism. He also serves as Vice President of the European Magnetics Society. He is member of several advisory and supervisory boards.
He served or serves as chairman or vice-chairman in various coordinated initiatives of the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) and the European Community, such as the German Priority Programme “Ultrafast Magnetization Processes” (2002-2008, coordinator), the EU Research Training Network „Spin Current Induced Ultrafast Switching (SPINSWITCH)” (2004-2010, coordinator)“, the Japanese-German Research Unit “Advanced Spintronic Materials and Transport Phenomena” (2010-2015, vice-coordinator), the Transregional Collaborative Research Center “Condensed MatterSystems with Variable Many-Body Interactions (SFB/TRR 49)” (since 2007, vice-chairman) and the Transregional Collaborative Research Center “Spin in its Collective Environment (Spin+X) (SFB/TRR 173)” (since 2016, vice chairman).
He has published more than 390 refereed articles, book contributions, and several patents.
Contact: Prof. Burkard Hillebrands, Fachbereich Physik, TU Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schrödinger-Strasse 56, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany; Phone: +49 631-205-4228; fax: +49 631-205-4095;e-mail: .