Rudolf Schaefer

Short Bio:

Rudolf Schäfer received the diploma degree in materials science and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, in 1985 and 1990, respectively. He then joined the IBM Research Center in Yorktown Heights, USA, and the Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany, as a Postdoctoral Researcher in 1991 and 1992, respectively. In 1993 he moved to the IFW Dresden where he became head of the Department of Magnetic Microstructures in 2002. In 2011, he was appointed Adjunct Professor for Magnetic Materials at the Institute for Materials Science, Technical University Dresden. His areas of interest span magnetic materials with a focus on magnetic microstructures and domain imaging by Kerr microscopy. He has published more than 240 technical articles in peer-reviewed journals, including book chapters, and he has coauthored the Springer textbook Magnetic Domains together with Alex Hubert. In 2013, R. Schäfer was Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society and currently he serves as the chair of the Conference Executive Committee of the society. He furthermore is director of the evico magnetics GmbH