Samir Lounis
AGYA Alumni Jointly building bridges into the future
About me
Through AGYA, I've been able to get a profound insight into the scientific landscape for nanomaterial research in Morocco and increase the international outreach of our work in Jülich.
AGYA has given me the opportunity to meet and interact with a diverse range of researchers from the Arab world and Germany. In this regard, my collaboration with Lalla Btissam Drissi has been particularly fruitful and rewarding. Our cooperation has not only led to common papers and exciting new research directions for both of us, but it has also allowed me to dive into the physics communities and research networks in Morocco and Tunisia.
Academic Career
2020 - today | Professor, Faculty of Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany | |
2016 | European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for ‘Dynasore’ Project – Dynamical magnetic excitations with spin-orbit interaction in realistic nanostructures, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany | |
2015 - 2020 | Junior Professor in Theory of Nanospintronics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany | |
2011 - today | Leader of the Functional Nanoscale Structure Probe and Simulation Laboratory (Funsilab) at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany | |
2010 - 2011 | Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at University of California Irvine, USA | |
2007 - 2009 | Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Solid State Physics, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany | |
2003 - 2007 | Ph.D. (summa cum laude), Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University, Germany | |
2000 - 2002 | Master’s Degree, Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria |
- My Commitment to AGYA
- Selection Committee 'New AGYA Members'
On a personal note
Must read in my discipline:
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman
Favourite novel:
The Story of My Life by Fadhma Ait Mansour Amrouche
Inspiring thinker/scientist from my country:
Jean el Mouhoub Amrouche