Prestigious Award of the German Physical Society

Professor Christian Pfleiderer awarded Max Born Prize

Christian Pfleiderer’s groundbreaking discovery is an exotic magnetic phase in chiral magnets that forms in a grid of magnetic textures known as skyrmions. Pfleiderer demonstrated that these textures can be manipulated using extraordinarily small electric currents. He has thereby opened up a new field of research that many groups around the world are working on and which provides fascinating application possibilities in the field of spintronics.

Pfleiderer studied physics in Tübingen and Denver. In 1990 he joined Prof. Lonzarich’s working group at Cambridge University, where he received his doctoral title in 1994. Following a stay in Grenoble and Karlsruhe, he was appointed associate professor in 2004 and full professor in 2014 for magnetic materials and the topology of correlated systems at the Technical University of Munich.

The Max Born Prize is awarded for particularly valuable and current contributions to physics jointly by the British Institute of Physics (IOP) and the German Physical Society (DPG) in commemoration of the work of Max Born in Great Britain and Germany. The two societies present the prize to physicists in Germany and Great Britain annually in alternation.