Our Team

From left to right:

1st row: Boris Valenta, Iva Simonovic, Simon Peinhaupt, Phillip Rehberger

2nd row: Fabian Majcen, Kristýna Davídková, Andrey Voronov, David Schmoll

3rd row: Pedro del Real, Khrystyna Levchenko, Noura Zenbaa, Rostyslav Serha, Clemens Schmid

4th row: Franz Vilsmeier, Andrii Chumak, Luca Banszerus, Bernd Aichner, Sebastian Knauer

 

 

 

Professors and project leaders

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andrii Chumak

Head of the Group

Room: 3314

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-10

Mobile: +43-664-60277-73910

andrii.chumak(at)univie.ac.at

Dr. Franz Vilsmeier

Senior Scientist

Room: 3318

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-90

franz.vilsmeier(at)univie.ac.at

Dr. Khrystyna Levchenko

Senior Postdoc

Room: 3318

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-90

khrystyna.levchenko(a)univie.ac.at

Postdoctoral researchers

Dr. Bernd Aichner

Postdoc

Room: 3E26A

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-80

bernd.aichner(at)univie.ac.at

Dr. Gyandeep Pradhan

Postdoc

Room: 3313

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-40

gyandeep.pradhan(at)univie.ac.at

Dr. Rostyslav Serha

Postdoc

Room: 3364

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-60 

rostyslav.serha(at)univie.ac.at

Dr. Andrey Voronov

Postdoc

Room: 3364

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-60 

andrey.voronov(at)univie.ac.at

Graduate Students (PhD and Master's Degree)

Kristýna Davídková

PhD Student

Room: 3364

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-30

kristyna.davidkova(at)univie.ac.at

Fabian Majcen

PhD Student

Room: 3364

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-30

fabian.majcen(at)univie.ac.at

 

 

David Schmoll

PhD Student

Room: 3364

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-60

E-mail: david.schmoll(at)univie.ac.at

Emma Horgan

PhD Student

Room: 3E25

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-30

emma.horgan(at)univie.ac.at



Clemens Schmid

PhD Student

Room: 3E26A

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-30

c.schmid(at)univie.ac.at



Philipp Jäger

PhD Student

Room: 3364

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-30

philipp.jaeger(at)univie.ac.at

Stanislava Shpilinska

Master's Degree Student

Room: 210, Währinger Str. 17

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-50 

stanislava.shpilinska(at)univie.ac.at

Simon Peinhaupt

Master's Degree Student

Room: 3312

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-30

simon.peinhaupt(at)univie.ac.at

Iva Simonovic

Master's Degree Student

Room: 3312

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-30

a00155997(at)unet.univie.ac.at

Boris Valenta

Master's Degree Student

Room: 3312

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-30

boris.valenta(at)univie.ac.at

Wolfgang Czingraber

Master's Degree Student

Room: 3312

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-30

a12209739(at)unet.univie.ac.at

Phillip Rehberger

Master's Degree Student

Room: 3312

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-30

phillip.rehberger(at)univie.ac.at

Hannah Arnfelser

Master's Degree Student

Room: 3312

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-30

hannah.arnfelser(at)univie.ac.at

Serafin Iwaniewicz

Master's Degree Student

Room: 3312

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-30

serafin.iwaniewicz(at)univie.ac.at

Bachelor students

Bettina Pusch

Administration and communication

Pedro del Real Lavergne

Administrative Assistant

Room: 3315

Phone: +43-1-4277-739-01

pedro.delreal(at)univie.ac.at

Helena Kempf

Administrative Assistant

Room: 72801

Phone: +43-1-4277-728-01

helena.kempf(at)univie.ac.at

Alumni

Professors

Associate Professor Dr. Vasyl Tyberkevych, Oakland University (Rochester, MI, USA), Visiting Professor Summer Semester 2026

Postdoctoral researchers and senior scientists

Sebastian Knauer, scientist at the Austrian Institute of Technology (2020-2026)

Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy, currently professor at the TU Braunschweig (2019-2024)

Qi Wang, currently professor at the School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2020-2022)

Michael Kerber, worked on the development and optimisation of the FMR and BLS spectroscopies (2020-2021)

PhD Students

Name Topic Finish date Supervisor
Rostyslav Serha Quantum magnonics in paramagnetic and ferrimagnetic materials 19.12.2025 Andrii Chumak
Andrey Voronov Magnon-based data processing 18.12.2025 Andrii Chumak, Claas Abert
Noura Zenbaa Experimental realization of direct- and inverse-design magnonic devices 27.01.2025 Andrii Chumak
Sebastian Lamb-Camarena 3D Curvilinear Nano-Magnetism and Spatio-Temporal Magneto Optic Microscopy 04.11.2024 Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy
Barbora Budisnká Edge-barrier and film thickness effects on fast vortex dynamics in superconductors 20.06.2024 Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy
Michael Schneider Bose-Einstein condensation of a DC-pulse driven magnon systems 08.12.2021 Andrii Chumak
Björn Heinz Nano-scaled exchange magnonics 01.12.2021 Andrii Chumak
Masters
  • Markus Gruber (2024)
  • Andreas Höfinger (2024)
  • Aram Sajdak (2024)
  • Elisabeth Weiß (2021)
Bachelors
  • Wolfgang Czingrabe (2025)
  • Artemis Stamos (2025)
  • Iva Simonovic (2025)
  • Rebecca Klingbeil (2024)
  • Emre Agacdiken (2024)
  • Simon Peinhaupt (2024)
  • Gabriel Sommer (2023)
  • Nadine Omar (2023)
  • Meret Riedl (2023)
  • Fabian Polnitzky (2023)
  • Fiona Rechberg (2023)
  • Christopher Kimmel (2021)
  • Manuel Alexander Kucera (2020)
Interns
  • Ekaterina Pribytova, VDSP intern (2023)
  • Isabel Vranckx-Herrera, FFG intern (2023)
  • Rufus Fredenhagen, FFG intern (2023)
  • Andreas Höfinger (2022)
  • Richard Emberger (2022)
  • Emre Agacdiken (2022)
  • Maksym Salashny (2022)
  • Mariia Kulbaieva (2022)
  • Martina Perisa, FFG intern (2022)
  • Jan Klíma, VDSP intern (2022)
  • Fabian Polnitzky (2021, 2022)
  • Simon Peinhaupt (2021)
  • Stephanie North (2021)