Dr. Ferenc Simon, leader of the spintronics research group, university professor (since 2011) and doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 2009). He has won the Starting Grant of the European Research Council and the Physics Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include spin- and charge-dynamics in strongly correlated materials and the development on non-conventional magnetic resonance spectroscopy (high-field, combined ESR-NMR, and ODMR) with the purpose of quantum-informatics research. He discovered the electron spin resonance signal of itinerant electrons in boron doped diamond, MgB2, and in doped carbon nanotubes and graphene. He contributed to the unified theory of spin relaxation in metals and semiconductors. He supervised 40 diploma degrees, 7 PhD (3 of which already granted). He published 160 scientific papers (about half as first or senior author), 6 book chapters, 4 edited conference books. He has more than 2000 independent citations. He has also contributed to several science popularization works in printed and broadcast media.

Selected publications of the group:

Enhanced NMR Relaxation of Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquids and the Magnitude of the Carbon Hyperfine Coupling in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
A. Kiss, A. Pályi, Y. Ihara, P. Wzietek, P. Simon, H. Alloul, V. Zólyomi, J. Koltai, J. Kürti, B. Dóra, and F. Simon
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 187204 (2011)

Optically Engineering the Topological Properties of a Spin Hall Insulator
Balázs Dóra, Jérôme Cayssol, Ferenc Simon, and Roderich Moessner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 056602 (2012)

A unified theory of spin-relaxation due to spin-orbit coupling in metals and semiconductor
Péter Boross, Balázs Dóra, Annamária Kiss, and Ferenc Simon
Scientific Reports 3, 3233 (2013)

Unusual spin dynamics in topological insulators
Balázs Dóra and Ferenc Simon
Scientific Reports 5, 14844 (2015)

The Elliott-Yafet theory of spin relaxation generalized for large spin-orbit coupling
Annamária Kiss, Lénard Szolnoki & Ferenc Simon
Scientific Reports 6, 22706 (2016)

Spin-relaxation time in materials with broken inversion symmetry and large spin-orbit coupling
Lénárd Szolnoki, Annamária Kiss, Balázs Dóra & Ferenc Simon
Scientific Reports 7, 9949 (2017)

Characterizing the maximum number of layers in chemically exfoliated graphene
Péter Szirmai, Bence G. Márkus, Julio C. Chacón-Torres, Philipp Eckerlein, Konstantin Edelthalhammer, Jan M. Englert, Udo Mundloch, Andreas Hirsch, Frank Hauke, Bálint Náfrádi, László Forró, Christian Kramberger, Thomas Pichler & Ferenc Simon
Scientific Reports 9, 19480 (2019)

Incidence of Quantum Confinement on Dark Triplet Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes
J. Palotás, M. Negyedi, S. Kollarics, A. Bojtor, P. Rohringer, T. Pichler, and F. Simon
ACS Nano 14, 11254 (2020)

Ultralong Spin Lifetime in Light Alkali Atom Doped Graphene
B. G. Márkus, P. Szirmai, K. F. Edelthalhammer, P. Eckerlein, A. Hirsch, F. Hauke, N. M. Nemes, Julio C. Chacón-Torres, B. Náfrádi, L. Forró, T. Pichler, and F. Simon
ACS Nano 14, 7492 (2020).