Ab initio investigations of magnetic properties of ultrathin transition ...

Acknowledgement
I don’t know how to describe my happiness of finishing my PhD successfully at one of the
most outstanding highly equipped worldwide research centers. Additionally, being graduated
from one of the highest ranked German Universities, the RWTH-Aachen University,
I would say, the one who I owe for such great success in my life is my supervisor Prof.
Dr. Stefan Blügel. Apart from accepting me to be one of his students, he always was very
helpful, open minded, smiling, and most important full of scientific thoughts and ideas,
which I learned from and helped me to have good progress during my PhD. In the name of
my family, I would like to thank also his wife for her nice gifts she presented to our little
daughter.
I can’t forget my dear advisor, Dr. Gustav Bihlmayer, who was never busy when I
needed his help! I learned many things from his fruitful discussions. Dear Gustav, please
forgive me for being disturbed by correcting my PhD thesis during the nice time with your
Family in Spain! You are really amazing!
I would like also to acknowledge Dr. Daniel Wortmann, who was the first one I shared
office with when I came to Jülich. He was always helpful during the time learning how to
use the fleur code. I like his smiley face and opened chest, and most important is his
nice way of simplifying the problems.
JProf. Dr. Stefan Heinze and Dr. Paolo Ferriani for the nice collaborations we had.
My X and current PhD students colleagues: Simon Woodford, Manfred Niesert, Markus
Betzinger, Alexander Thieß, Martin Schlipf, Andreas Dolfen, Andreas Gierlich and Björn
Hardrat from Hamburg University: I really was very happy to know you guys, I really had
fun with all of you and enjoyed of being your colleague in the same group! Björn: it was
nice collaborations we had since we published one famous Ironic article out of that!
Postdocs and Scientific staff: Samir, thanks for the povray file! Predrag: thanks for
the vtk, Python, and of course the chocolates and biscuit I always finished! Marcus Heide:
thanks for your help of finding strange complex structure on the high symmetry line! Ersoy:
Thank you very much for your guide to read nice books in physics. Marjana, Phivos and
Yuriy you are really very nice team who I like. Nicolae: try to minimize washing your eyes,
we need them for the next Science paper!
I acknowledge our great secretary ”Mrs Ute Winkler” who (I don’t know how) could
and still can manage all the above mentioned people plus the other members of our large
group’ official stuff! You are really great Ute!
The last, but most one, who I would like to thank is my dear mother for her prayers
and patience for being alone till I finish the task I came for. I also thank my lovely wife,
who really helped me during my PhD study with her warm feelings and support.
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