Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy

Priv.-Doz. Dr. habil., D. Sci.

Nanomagnetism and MagnonicsFaculty of Physics, University of Vienna

Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1170 Vienna, AustriaT +43-664-60277-73920 / +43-1-4277-73920

B oleksandr.dobrovolskiy@univie.ac.atORCID ResearcherID ScopusAuthor GoogleScholar

Cirriculum Vitae

Personal dataBorn 16.01.1984 in Kharkiv, Ukraine

married, two children

Languages German and English: Professional proficiency (C1)

Ukrainian and Russian: Native speaker

Current positionSince 11.2019 Head of Superconductivity and Spintronics Laboratory.

Nanomagnetism and Magnonics, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria

Previous positions2017-2019 Head of Nano-Fluxonics Laboratory, Physics Institute, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

2011-2017 Principal Investigator, Privatdozent, Physics Institute, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

2009-2011 Postdoctoral researcher, Physics Institute, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

2008-2009 Junior researcher and lecturer, Physics Faculty, V. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine

2005-2008 Doctoral student, Physics Faculty, V. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine

Education26.10.2016 Habilitation in Physics, Physics Institute, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

Topic: Superconductivity and vortex dynamics in nanostructures. Mentor: Prof. Dr. Michael Huth

31.05.2016 Doctor of Science degree, B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics, Kharkiv, UkraineTopic: Nonlinear vortex dynamics in superconducting Nb films with anisotropic pinning nanostructures

17.03.2009 PhD, B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Kharkiv, UkraineTopic: Guided vortex motion and the Hall effect in superconductors with a periodic pinning potentialSupervisor: Prof. Dr. Valerij A. Shklovskij. Rector’s Award for outstanding PhD achievements

2005 Master, Physics Faculty, V. Karazin Kharkiv National University, UkraineTopic: Influence of disorder on the nonlinear vortex dynamics in superconductors. Honours Diploma

2004 Bachelor, Physics Faculty, V. Karazin Kharkiv National University, UkraineTopic: Jump-like low-temperature deformation in aluminium. Honours Diploma

Publications summary6 Books, chapters, and reviews

>70 Peer-reviewed papers

>30 Invited talks and seminars

>50 Contributions to international conferences as presenting author

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Expertise and techniquesMain research

domainsExperimental Condensed Matter Physics, Superconductivity, Magnetism, Materials Science,Low Temperature Physics, This Films and Nanostructures, Vortex and Spin-Wave Dynamics

Spectroscopy Microwave spectroscopy, Microscopy, Nanotechnology

Microscopy AFM, MFM, SEM, SQUID, MOKE, scanning FMR-AFM

Nanotechnology FEBID, ALD, FIB milling, FEB-assisted purification and alloying

Thin film growth Sputtering, metal/oxide/organic MBE, solution-melt for single crystals

Structure XRD, XRR, LEED, RHEED, liftoff, photo and e-beam lithography

Transport in-situ, cryogenic dc and microwave, pulsed (down to 10 ns), tilted-field magnetotransport

Microwaves VNA, cavity-resonator FMR (waveguide), broadband FMR (coplanar)

Simulations MuMax3, OOMF, Comsol, Maple, SRIM, Casino

Prizes and awards2016 Prize of the Government of Ukraine for achieving the title Doctor of Science in the age of 32

(the average age of the scholars reaching Doctor of Science in Physics is above 40: prooflink)

2014 Best Talk Award, 5th Low Temperature Physics Conference, Ukraine

2013 Prize “Nachwuchswissenschaftler im Fokus” of the Goethe University, Germany

2010 Marie-Curie grant for attending an Advanced Cryophysics Course, Slovakia

2009 DAAD scholarship for 1-year-long postdoctoral research project, Germany

2008 Rector’s Award for outstanding PhD achievements, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Organization of scientific conferences2013, 15, 17 Internat. Conference on Vortex Matter in Nanostructured Superconductors, Rhodes, Greece

2014 5th Workshop on Focused Electron Beam Induced Processing, 22-24 July, 2014, Frankfurtam Main, Germany

Services to scientific communityReferee • Funding agencies: DFG, ERC, DAAD, and CERN

• Nature-family journals, Phys. Rev. (Lett., A, B, Appl.), Appl. Phys. Lett. and other• International conferences: EUCAS, ICSM, and Metamaterials

Member • Management Committee of COST Actions MP1201 and CA16218 on Superconductivity• German Physics Society (DPG), European Society of Applied Superconductivity

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List of 10 selected publications[1] Magnon-Fluxon interaction in a ferromagnet/superconductor heterostructure

O. V. Dobrovolskiy, R. Sachser, T. Brächer, T. Fischer, V. V. Kruglyak,R. V. Vovk, V. A. Shklovskij, M. Huth, B. Hillebrands, and A. V. ChumakNature Physics 15, 477 (2019)

[2] Spin-wave phase inverter upon a single nanodefectO. V. Dobrovolskiy, R. Sachser, S. A. Bunyaev, V. M. Bevz, M. Zelent, W. Smigaj,J. Rychly, M. Krawczyk, R. V. Vovk, M. Huth, and G. N. KakazeiACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 11, 17654 (2019)

[3] Fast dynamics of guided magnetic flux quantaO. V. Dobrovolskiy, V. M. Bevz, E. Begun, R. Sachser, R. V. Vovk, and M. HuthPhys. Rev. Appl. 11, 054064 (2019)

[4] Route to form skyrmions in soft magnetic filmsD. Navas, R. V. Verba, A. Hierro-Rodriguez, S. A. Bunyaev, X. Zhou, A. O. Adeyeye,O. V. Dobrovolskiy, B. A. Ivanov, K. Yu. Guslienko, and G. N. KakazeiAPL Materials 7, 081114 (2019)

[5] Role of magnons and the size effect in heat transport through an insulating ferromagnet-insulator interfaceV. A. Shklovskij, V. V. Kruglyak, V. V. Vovk, and O. V. DobrovolskiyPhys. Rev. B 98, 224403 (2018)

[6] Microwave emission from superconducting vortices in Mo/Si superlatticesO. V. Dobrovolskiy, V. M. Bevz, M. Yu. Mikhailov, O. I. Yuzephovich,V. A. Shklovskij, R. V. Vovk, M. I. Tsindlekht, R. Sachser, and M. HuthNature Commun. 9, 4927 (2018)

[7] FEBID meets materials scienceM. Huth, F. Porrati, O. V. DobrovolskiyMicroelectron. Engineering 185 – 186, 9-28 (2018), invited review

[8] Mobile fluxons as coherent probes of periodic pinning in superconductorsO. V. Dobrovolskiy, M. Huth, V. A. Shklovskij, and R. V. VovkSci. Rep. 7, 13740–1-11 (2017)

[9] Tunable magnetism on the lateral mesoscale by post-processing of Co/Pt heterostructuresO. V. Dobrovolskiy, M. Kompaniiets, F. Porrati, R. Sachser, Ch. Gspan, H. Plank, and M. Huth,Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 6, 1082–1090 (2015)

[10] Magnetization reversal assisted by half antivortex states in nanostructured circular Co disksA. Lara, O. V. Dobrovolskiy, J. L. Prieto, M. Huth, and F. G. AlievAppl. Phys. Lett. 105, 182402–1-5 (2014)

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