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Thesis on the structural and magnetic nature of single-crystal layered magnetic materials. Built all measurement devices from scratch, from mechanical exfoliation and dry-transfer stacking through to the cryogenic transport, SQUID, and NV-magnetometry measurements themselves, and wrote the Python instrumentation software (CryoSoft) the lab now uses for cryogenic transport measurements. Five peer-reviewed publications over four years (three first/shared-first-author research articles, one lead-author invited perspective, one co-author article). Established the in-house SEM/EDX characterisation workflow used across the group's fabricated devices, and co-supervised three junior researchers (two summer interns, one Master's student awarded top grade) across the PhD.

Proposed the lab's first AI roadmap to the group leader and was appointed to lead its six-member taskforce. Put the university's first research-group AI chatbot into production for the ~50-researcher group: it answers from the group's wiki and a literature corpus of 10,000+ papers, cites its sources and shows the relevant figures. Built the agentic retrieval behind it (figure Recall@10 0.92) and made the lab's cryogenic instruments operable by AI agents through an MCP server and the I2AS framework. Won the university's first Microsoft 365 Copilot premium licences for the group, plus a dedicated server and model API access, from central IT. Presented the work at AI4Science 2026 in Mainz.

Peer-elected to coordinate a research "supply chain": the end-to-end pipeline from growing a material, to measuring it, to modelling it theoretically. Chaired monthly cross-group meetings for 20+ PhD researchers and postdocs across two universities, and brokered collaboration across group boundaries. Led two interdisciplinary Seedfund proposals (2024, 2025, both runner-up) and co-led the 2026 cycle, which won the consortium-wide peer vote with 14 of 24 votes and is now funded and in implementation (an NV-centre benchtop antiferromagnet-imaging proposal). Also engaged in TRR 173 consortium-wide governance alongside student representatives and the Young Researcher College manager.

Co-organized four bilateral meetings between Chinese and German researchers working on 2D materials, including the Third China-Germany Bilateral Meeting (Beijing, October 2024: 41 scientific presentations, over 100 participants). Led the draft of the mobility project's final report, delivered on schedule to the funding agencies.

Read out the Néel-vector orientation of the semiconducting antiferromagnet CrPS4 via spin Hall magnetoresistance in Pt/CrPS4 heterostructures. Established the full nanofabrication chain for the subgroup (polymer-based exfoliation and vdW stacking of CrPS4 flakes, MBE and sputter deposition of Pt thin films, electron-beam lithography, ion- beam etching, sputter-deposited gold contacts) and built the cryogenic SMR measurement workflow on a 12 T superconducting magnet, presenting the findings at the internal Kläui Group yearly evaluation. Built the foundational experience in cryogenic spin transport and metal-semiconductor interface measurements that fed forward into the PhD magnon spin-valve project.

Built a 9,000 FPS DMD-based laser wavefront-shaping pipeline driven by computer-generated holograms, with hologram-side aberration correction via Zernike-coefficient tuning; hardware control and data acquisition in MATLAB and LabVIEW.