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Evangelos
Papaioannou
Assistant Professor
Solid State Physics, X-Ray techniques, Magnetism

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School of Physics

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, 4th floor.

epapaioa@auth.gr

00302310 998134

Short CV Presentation
Evangelos Papaioannou studied Physics in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He obtained his Ph.D. in nanomagnetism (title of Ph.D : Correlation of structure and magnetism in novel magnetic nanomaterials), under the supervision of Prof. Nikolaos Flevaris in the department of Physics,  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He worked as a Post-Doc at Free University Berlin (Germany) and Uppsala University (Sweden). The period 2014-2019 he was a Junior Professor at TU Kaiserslautern (Germany). In 2019 he received a permanent researcher position in Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). In spring 2023 he accepted an Assistant Professor position in the department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He works on ultrafast spintronics, nanomagnetism and materials science, novel magnetic multilayers and heterostructures, spin dynamics and spin-orbit phenomena in magnetic nanostructures, THz spintronics, magneto-plasmonic metamaterials. For his research he was awarded with a Carl Zeiss research grant, and three research projects from the german Ministry of Education and the European Union.
He has published more than 90 papers (January 2026) in peer-reviewed scientific journals and he has been invited in more than 30 international conferences. He has so far supervised 2 Ph.D. thesis and several Master and Diploma works.
Short CV Presentation
Evangelos Papaioannou studied Physics in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He obtained his Ph.D. in nanomagnetism (title of Ph.D : Correlation of structure and magnetism in novel magnetic nanomaterials), under the supervision of Prof. Nikolaos Flevaris in the department of Physics,  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He worked as a Post-Doc at Free University Berlin (Germany) and Uppsala University (Sweden). The period 2014-2019 he was a Junior Professor at TU Kaiserslautern (Germany). In 2019 he received a permanent researcher position in Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). In spring 2023 he accepted an Assistant Professor position in the department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He works on ultrafast spintronics, nanomagnetism and materials science, novel magnetic multilayers and heterostructures, spin dynamics and spin-orbit phenomena in magnetic nanostructures, THz spintronics, magneto-plasmonic metamaterials. For his research he was awarded with a Carl Zeiss research grant, and three research projects from the german Ministry of Education and the European Union.
He has published more than 90 papers (January 2026) in peer-reviewed scientific journals and he has been invited in more than 30 international conferences. He has so far supervised 2 Ph.D. thesis and several Master and Diploma works.

Contact

School of Physics

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, 4th floor.

epapaioa@auth.gr

00302310 998134

Studies

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Physics

Ph.D

Publications

2025
Controlling charge dynamics in nanopatterned spintronic terahertz emitters

PHYS. REV. APPLIED 23, 014024 (2025)

Journal Papers

2021
THz spintronic emitters: a review on achievementsand future challenges

Nanophotonics 2021; 10(4): 1243–1257

Journal Papers

2020
Near-field mechanism of the enhanced broadband magneto-optical activity of hybrid Au loaded Bi:YIG

Nanoscale 12, 7309 (2020)

Journal Papers

2020
Bose–Einstein condensation of quasiparticles byrapid cooling

Nat. Nanotechnol. 15, 457-461 (2020).

Journal Papers

2019
Modification of spintronic terahertz emitter performance through defect engineering

Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 13348 (2019)

Journal Papers

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Research Interests

Interaction of light and magnetism Magneto-photonics magneto-plasmonics spin-plasmonics of magnetic nanostructures Spin-conversion phenomena on the nanoscale magneto-optic & magneto-electric conversion effects in solids spin accumulations and pure spin currents spin currents generation & spin injection spin pumping and spin Hall effects (SHEs) spin Hall effect (SHE) inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) magnon spintronics THz spintronics epitaxial growth of thin films and multilayers molecular beam epitaxy sputtering technique characterization methods patterned magnetic structures methods: MOKE FMR VSM SQUID MFM BLS XMCD XRMS THz-TDS XRD XRR XMCD XRMS LEED RHEED Auger SEM

Interests

History of science History Sports

Professional Experience

Free University of Berlin (Germany)

Post-Doc

Uppsala University (Sweden)

Researcher

Uppsala University (Sweden)

Lecturer

Technical University of Kaiserslautern (Germany)

Senior Researcher

Technical University of Kaiserslautern (Germany)

Assistant Professor

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)

Faculty member, Permanent Researcher position

Courses

2023 - 2026

Crystal Structure of Materials (Undergraduate)

2023 - 2026

Modern magnetic materials (Undergraduate)

2023 - 2026

Nanosynthesis and Nanoapplications (Postgraduate)

Skills

German Language
English Language
French Language
Swedish Language

Projects

Spin homojunctions for broadband THz radiation (Program: Support young researchers-AUTH)

The proposal aims to study novel sources of THz radiation based on ultrafast spin phenomena

Latest news
  • July 2025

Contributed talk of Evangelos Papaioannou at the 12th International Symposium on Metallic Multilayers, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 13-18 July 2025

  • April 2025

The Master Student Maria Papadopoulou joined the research team of Prof. Papaioannou for a Master thesis on the topic of magneto-optical effects.

  • February 2025

Beam time at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), more details at  https://x.com/XMaSBeam/status/1887915868190814306

  • December 2024:

The Master Student Stavros Papageorgiou joined the research team of Prof. Papaioannou for a Master thesis on the topic of THz emission from magnetic materials

  • October 2024:

The paper under the title : Materials engineering of spintronic THz emitters

has been published in Proceedings Volume 13119, Spintronics XVII; 1311908 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3027917

  • 18 August 2024:

Invited talk of Evangelos Papaioannou at SPIE Conference at the event Nanoscience + Engineering, 2024, San Diego, California, United States

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