We welcome Dr. Natalia Shkodich in our consortium. In her new project “Tailoring magnetism of High Entropy Alloys (HEA) by high energy ball milling (HEBM)” she will focus on CoCrFeNiGa_x (x = 0.5, 1.0) and CoMnFeNiGa_x (x = 0.5, 1.0) HEAs. Magnetic HEAs are a relatively new class of materials in magnetism and the production of magHEA particles by fast HEBM and magnetic/structural analysis is at its infancy. This project was initiated to support the gender balance in the CRC/TRR 270 and has been located at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Physics after a competitive call and evaluation process.

In addition, the faculty of physics, the rectorate of the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Ernst Ruska Centre from the Forschungszentrum Jülich support an additional post-doctoral position for a female researcher, Dr. cand. Teresa Weßels, in projects A03 (K. Ollefs) and B05 (H. Wende) in order to underpin the ongoing efforts towards gender balance. Dr. cand. Teresa Weßels has a strong background in imaging magnetic nanostructure with transmission electron microscopy (TEM) ) focusing in the quantitative analysis of magnetic stray fields and magnetization dynamics. Her project “Revealing the interplay between magnetic domains and microstructure in order to maximize the hysteresis of permanent magnets” focuses on understanding of the microscopic origin of hysteresis behavior of permanent magnets with specific focus on the impact of the different phases, typically resulting from phase decomposition. Here, various measurements techniques, such as scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM), ptychography, and TEM, are combined to correlate (3D) structural and chemical properties with (3D) magnetic properties.