Giving back what I learned

Teaching

November 2018

Invited lecturer for the course MSE 204-Materials Characterization at UC Berkeley.

As an invited lecturer, I had the opportunity to teach graduate students from the different natural sciences and engineering departments at UC Berkeley. The topic of my lectures was to introduce the students to the main concepts of magnetism and magnetic materials and then to discuss a few experimental techniques commonly used for the characterization of magnetic materials systems.

 

 

Summer Semester 2014

Teaching assistant for the course Experimental Physics I at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.

As a teaching assistant, I taught first-year bachelor students in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics how to solve problems of classical mechanics.

 

 

Winter Semester 2013/2014

Teaching assistant for the course Materials Science: Magnetism at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.

As a teaching assistant, I was in charge of preparing problem-sets to assign to the students and then of teaching the students how to solve them.

Mentoring

Spring 2017 & Summer 2016

Mentor for the Undergraduates Lab Experience in Multiferroic Materials at UC Berkeley.

As a Post-Doc researcher at UC Berkley, I had the opportunity to mentor undergraduate students during their 3-months staying at our Lab (Bokor's Lab). As their mentor, I gave them a brief introduction to magnetism, ferroelectricity and finally multiferroic materials, underling the potential impact of such materials for technological applications. The students were also involved in small lab experiments which allowed them to have a first-hand experience in multiferroic materials characterization.

 

 

Winter Semester 2014\2015

Mentor for the Undergraduates Lab Experience in Kerr Microscopy at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

As a graduate student at the Kläui Lab, I designed and conducted a Lab experience for undergraduate students. First, the students where introduced to the phenomenology of the magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE). Subsequently, they had the opportunity to operate a Kerr microscope and image the magnetization state  of magnetic thin films, which allowed them to understand better the physics of magnetic domains and domain walls.