Itinerant Spin Dynamics in Structures of ... - Jacobs University

Acknowledgments
Completingthis doctoral work has been awonderfulexperience. It is with pleasure
that I acknowledge the advise and support by the people with whom I was working during
the time in Hamburg and Bremen.
In particular I owe my interest in the fascinating world of condensed matter to my thesis
advisor Professor Stefan Kettemann. It started all by a small and seemingly simple task
concerning ballistic spin transport. During the induction into the field of spintronics his
advice helped me to see on the one hand the richness of effects which were often counterintuitive,
and on the other hand he showed me how to get a feeling for the nature of the
complex problem we were working on by application of fundamental rules. He gave me
plenty of scope to chose my direction of interest and always encouraged me in many fruitful
discussions.
Professor Georges Bouzerar I owe not only the rediscovery of my interest in programming
and a boost in my rusty C++ skills from school time, but also a better understanding of
how to squeeze the essential of an phenomenon into the computer and extract meaningful
physics out of it. His questions furthered my insight of the subject matter.
Throughout my years as a PhD student, I was supported for many semesters by the DFG-
SFB508 B9 at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Hamburg and by the DFG CC5120
at the Jacobs University Bremen, through the generosity of my advisor. I thank the Conrad
Naber foundation for providing my scholarship for my first year at the Jacobs University
Bremen. In addition I had the opportunity to take part in many interesting and productive
conferences (some including even singing) where some were founded by the World Class
University program through the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation.
Finally, I also would like to acknowledge the support of my colleagues at the Hamburg and
Jacobs University, creating a stimulating environment.
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