Dr Marcos H. D. Guimaraes
Associate Professor in the Physics of Energy Materials
Biography
Marcos H. D. Guimarães is an Associate Professor in the Physics of Energy Materials at the Cavendish Laboratory (Department of Physics). Marcos received his PhD from the University of Groningen (NL) in 2015 working on spin transport in graphene devices. He then moved to Cornell University (USA) working on electronics and spintronics in van der Waals materials, including pioneering works on spin-orbit torque devices using low-symmetry van der Waals crystals.
In 2017 he moved to Eindhoven University of Technology (NL), where he worked on the ultrafast spin and magnetisation dynamics of van der Waals materials.
In 2019 he established his research group at the University of Groningen (NL), and in 2026 he joined the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge as Associate Professor. He was awarded several grants and awards throughout his career, among them a Kavli Institute Postdoctoral fellowship (2014), NWO Veni (2016), and an ERC Starting Grant (2022).
Research
The Guimarães group uses a combination of high-quality van der Waals heterostructure and nanodevice fabrication with state-of-the-art (time-resolved) (magneto-)optical, optoelectronic and electronic transport techniques to investigate how charge, light, and spins and magnetism interact at the nanoscale.
Current research topics include spin-orbit and orbital torques, ultrafast magnetisation dynamics, magnon transport, (transient) photocurrent spectroscopy, nonlinear optoelectronic phenomena, and spin-dependent light emission.
A central goal of the research done in the group is to understand the microscopic fundamental phenomena at play and how they can be exploited to develop new device concepts for energy-efficient information technologies combining photonics, spintronics, and quantum materials.
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