Riccardo HERTEL

Riccardo HERTEL

Senior Researcher, Magnetic Objects on the NanoScale (DMONS)Riccardo.Hertel@ipcms.unistra.fr
Tél: +33(0)3 88 10 70 83Bureau: 1006

Research background

  • Senior researcher (Directeur de Recherche) at CNRS (since 2011)
  • Head of the group “Simulation of Mesoscopic Magnetic Structures”, Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany (2004-2010)
  • Invited Researcher: Institut Louis Néel, Grenoble, France (2003)
  • Postdoc / Habilitation: Max-Planck-Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany (1999-2004)

Academic background

  • University Teaching License in France, CNU Section 28: Solid State and Materials (2012)
  • University Teaching License in Germany: Theoretical Physics, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (2005)
  • Lecturer at University of Duisburg-Essen, Allemagne (2005-2010)
  • Ph.D. thesis, Max Planck Institute of Metal Research, Stuttgart, Germany (1999)

Research interests

  • Micromagnetism
  • Topological structures in ferroic materials
  • Three-dimensional magnetic nanostructures
  • Fast magnetization dynamics
  • Theory and simulation
  • Numerical methods and code development
  • Finite element method

Code development

  • Check out our GPU-accelerated micromagnetic finite-element software package tetmag and its documentation.

Publications

For an extensive list see ORCID or google scholar.

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L. Gallard, R. Hertel, Topological characterization of Hopfions in finite-element micromagnetics, Journal of Applied Physics 138 (2025) 043907. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0280041.
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A.N. Morozovska, S. Cherifi-Hertel, E.A. Eliseev, V.V. Khist, R. Hertel, D.R. Evans, The role of flexoelectric coupling and chemical strains in the emergence of polar chiral nano-structures, Journal of Applied Physics 138 (2025) 030701. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0277483.
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R. Knapman, M. Azhar, A. Pignedoli, L. Gallard, R. Hertel, J. Leliaert, K. Everschor-Sitte, Numerical calculation of the Hopf index for three-dimensional magnetic textures, Physical Review B 111 (2025) 134408. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.111.134408.
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G. Gubbiotti, A. Barman, S. Ladak, C. Bran, D. Grundler, M. Huth, H. Plank, G. Schmidt, S. van Dijken, R. Streubel, O.V. Dobrovolskiy, V. Scagnoli, L.J. Heyderman, C. Donnelly, O. Hellwig, L. Fallarino, M.B. Jungfleisch, A. Farhan, N. Maccaferri, P. Vavassori, P. Fischer, R. Tomasello, G. Finocchio, R. Clerac, R. Sessoli, D. Makarov, D. Sheka, M. Krawczyk, R.A. Gallardo, P. Landeros, M. d’Aquino, R. Hertel, P. Pirro, F. Ciubotaru, M. Becherer, J. Gartside, T. Ono, P. Bortolotti, A. Fernandez-Pacheco, 2025 Roadmap on 3D Nano-magnetism., Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter 37 (2025) 143502. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ad9655.
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B. Flebus, D. Grundler, B. Rana, Y. Otani, I. Barsukov, A. Barman, G. Gubbiotti, P. Landeros, J. Akerman, U. Ebels, P. Pirro, V.E. Demidov, K. Schultheiss, G. Csaba, Q. Wang, F. Ciubotaru, D.E. Nikonov, P. Che, R. Hertel, T. Ono, D. Afanasiev, J. Mentink, T. Rasing, B. Hillebrands, S.V. Kusminskiy, W. Zhang, C.R. Du, A. Finco, T. van der Sar, Y.K. Luo, Y. Shiota, J. Sklenar, T. Yu, J. Rao, The 2024 magnonics roadmap, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 36 (2024) 363501. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ad399c.
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M. Gołębiewski, R. Hertel, M. d’Aquino, V. Vasyuchka, M. Weiler, P. Pirro, M. Krawczyk, S. Fukami, H. Ohno, J. Llandro, Collective Spin-Wave Dynamics in Gyroid Ferromagnetic Nanostructures, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 16 (2024) 22177–22188. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c02366.
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M. d’Aquino, R. Hertel, Micromagnetic frequency-domain simulation methods for magnonic systems, Journal of Applied Physics 133 (2023) 033902. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0131922.
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D. Markó, R. Cheenikundil, J. Bauer, K. Lenz, W.-C. Chuang, K.-W. Lin, J.-C. Wu, M. d’Aquino, R. Hertel, D.S. Schmool, Interpretation of Spin-Wave Modes in \mathrmCo/\mathrmAg Nanodot Arrays Probed by Broadband Ferromagnetic Resonance, Physical Review Applied 20 (2023) 024059. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.024059.
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M. d’Aquino, S. Perna, M. Pancaldi, R. Hertel, S. Bonetti, C. Serpico, Micromagnetic study of inertial spin waves in ferromagnetic nanodots, Physical Review B 107 (2023) 144412. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.107.144412.