Jean-Philippe Ansermet was born March 1, 1957 in Lausanne (legal origin Vaumarcus, NE). He obtained a diploma as physics engineer of EPFL in 1980. He went on to get a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where, from 1985 to 1987, he persued as post-doc with Prof. Slichter his research on catalysis by solid state NMR studies of molecules bound to the surface of catalysts. From 1987 to 1992 he worked at the materials research center of Ciba-Geigy, on polymers for microelectronics, composites, dielectrics and organic charge transfer complexes. In March 1992, as professor of experimental physics, he developed a laboratory on the theme of nanostructured materials and turned full professor in 1995. Since 1992, he teaches classical mechanics, first to future engineering students, since 2004 to physics majors. Since 2000, he teaches thermodynamics also, to the same group of students. He offers a graduate course in spintronics, and another on spin dynamics. His research activities concern the fabrication and properties of magnetic nanostructures produced by electrodeposition. His involvement since the early days of spintronics have allowed him to gain recognition for his work on giant magnetoresistance (CPP-GMR), magnetic relaxation of single nanostructures, and was among the leading groups demonstrating magnetization reversal by spin-polarized currents. Furthermore, his group uses nuclear magnetic resonance , on the one hand as means of investigation of surfaces and electrodes, on the other hand, as a local probe of the electronic properties of complex ferromagnetic oxides.

Researcher unique identifier(s) (ORCID): http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1307-4864  
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Date of birth: 01/03/1957

Nationality: Switzerland

URL for web site: http://lpmn.epfl.ch                          

 

·       EDUCATION

1985                PhD: ''A new approach to the study of surfaces'', Prof. C.P. Slichter, advisor,

                        Physics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign, Illinois, USA

1982                Master,             Physics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign, Illinois, USA

                       

 ·       CURRENT POSITION

2022 –              Honorary Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

1995 – 2022     Full professor

                        Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

  

·       PREVIOUS POSITIONS

1992 – 1995     Associate professor

                        Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland 

1987 – 1992     Research scientist  

                        Materials Research Laboratory, Ciba-Geigy A.G., Switzerland

1985 –1987      Research assistant

                        Physics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign, Illinois, USA

  

·       FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2023                Scholar-in-Residence, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India

2022                Crédit Suisse Teaching Award

Since 2019       Visiting professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

Since 2011       Fellow, American Physical Society 

2000 – 2005     Visiting faculty, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign, Illinois, USA

1980 – 1985      Fulbright grant, USA

·       SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Since 1992                   Number of: Postdocs, 30, PhD students: 30, Master Students: 44

  

·       TEACHING ACTIVITIES  

1992 – 2000     Introductory physics, sections of mechanical and electrical engineering students

2001– 2016      Mechanics, bachelor course to physics students

Since 2001       Thermodynamics, bachelor course to physics students

2009                textbook “Mécanique”, Presse Polytechnique Universitaire Romande

2013                MOOC of mechanics, 28 lessons, on Coursera and YouTube (>17300’000 views)

2016                textbook “Thermodynamique”, Presse Polytechnique Universitaire Romande

2016                MOOC of  thermodynamics, in collaboration with 4 other campuses, on Coursera
 

·       ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 

2012 – 2015     annual meetings of the group on hardware, COST TD1103

2013 – 2015     TeraHertz : Opportunies for Industry, yearly, Lausanne, Switzerland

2011                3rd DNP symposium, Lausanne, Switzerland 

2005                EPS meeting for the “World Year of Physics 2005”, Bern, Switzerland

1994                 Gordon Research conference on Nanophase Materials, Davos, Switzerland

 

·       INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES 

2023 – 2027     Swiss Counsel of Accreditation (federal government appointment)

2006 – 2018     Director, EPFL physics section (coordination of all physics courses)

2002 – 2006      President, Swiss Physical Society

2001 – 2005      Director, Institute for the Physics of Nanostructures 

1997 – 2002      Secretary, Executive Committee, European Physical Society

 

·       COMMISSIONS OF TRUST 

2016 – 2021     International Mobility Project, Project 111, Beihang University, Beijing, China

Since 2012       Swissto12 A.G., scientific advisory board, Lausanne, Switzerland

2002 – 2007    Nanodimension A.G., scientific advisory board, Zurich, Switzerland

1996 - 2000     Reviewer, DFRMC (Paris) + SPINTEC (Grenoble), France 

·       MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

Since 1984       American Physical Society

Since 1997       Swiss Physical Society

 

·       MAJOR COLLABORATIONS 

COST              “Hyperpolarization Physics and Methodology in NMR and MRI”, 2012-2015

Germany          SpinCat, German Priority program, 2012-2017, Hamburg, TU-Münich, 

Poland             Nanospin, Polish-Swiss contribution, 2012-2016, Krakow, Poznan, 

India                Indian-Swiss Joint Research Program, 2008-2012, IIT-Dehli, D. Pandya, 

China               Sino-Swiss Sci. and Technol. Cooperation, 2007-2012, Dapeng Yu, Pekin U., 

Europe             RTN EuNITTT, 2000-2004, K. Hjort, Uppsala, Sweden

Europe             Brite-Euram, BRE2-0546, 1994-1997, Bernard Dieny, France

 

Books 

Reviews
Solid State NMR Techniques for the Study of Surface Phenomena,
J.-Ph. Ansermet, C.P. Slichter, J.H. Sinfelt, Prog. NMR Spectro. 22(5) 401 (1991)
Nanostructuring Materials for Spin Electronics, B. Doudin, J.-Ph. Ansermet, Europhysics News 28, 14-17 (1997)
Perpendicular Transport of Spin-Polarized Electrons Through Magnetic Nanostructures, J.-Ph. Ansermet, J. Phys. C : Cond. Matter 10, 6027-6050 (1998)
"Spying on Magnetism" and "NMR : the quantum mechanics playground", in «Le spin en physique», Frontier Group 2002
Spintronics with metallic nanowires, in «Oxford Hanbook of Nanoscience and Technology", Narlikar & Fu Editors, Oxford Uni Press 2010

- spintronics, in part. chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS)
- magnonics and magnetic resonance

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