Dr. Matthias Opel

- Staff Scientist: Magnetism and Spintronics
- Staff Scientist: Thin Film Technology
- Staff Scientist: Representative of the Scientific Staff
- Staff Scientist: IT Services
- Staff Scientist: Data Privacy Coordinator
- Elected member of the Speaker Council (Sprecherkollegium) for the scientists of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Matthias studied physics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. He received his diploma in 1995 with an experimental work on Raman spectroscopy in high-temperature superconductors at the Walther-Meissner-Institut (WMI).
As a PhD student, he continued with the investigation of the electronic system including phonon, magnon, and electron interactions in both superconducting and antiferromagnetic copper-oxide materials. He received his PhD in the year 2000.
He then switched his research topic to multifunctional oxides and studied epitaxial ferromagnetic thin films and multilayers. He became a permanent staff member (senior scientist) in the year 2006. His current research interests are oxide electronics and antiferromagnetic spintronics.
Matthias is one of the four elected members of the Speaker Council for all scientists of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2015.