Bert Koopmans graduated and received his PhD degree at the University of Groningen. After a short stay as a postdoc at the Radboud University Nijmegen, he spent three years as a Humboldt Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Physics in Stuttgart. In 1997 he joined the Eindhoven University of Technology, where since 2003 he chairs the Group Physics of Nanostructures. His present research activities are in spintronics, nanomagnetism, and ultrafast spin- and magnetization-dynamics. Key research achievements have been made in laser-induced femtosecond magnetization processes and controlling current-induced domain wall motion – in many cases combining experimental and theoretical approaches. Within the TU/e NWO Gravitation program on photonic integration, he has initiated a research program on on-chip integration of spintronics with photonics, exploring future energy-efficient and versatile information technology. In 2020 he was elected Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society. Within SpinDataComm the research group will contribute by making ps switching of the ferromagnetic injector possible, by making use of all-optical switching of magnetization using single fs laser pulses.
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