Samir Lounis

AGYA Alumni Jointly building bridges into the future

Physics

Areas of Expertise:
Nanoscale properties of materials; Electronic structure theory; Quantum mechanics; Magnetism

Membership:
2015 - 2020

Contact

Peter Grünberg Institute &
Institute for Advanced Simulation
Leo-Brandt-Str.
52428 Jülich
Germany

+49 2461 61 4068
s.lounis(at)fz-juelich.de
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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