International Doctorate Program
Topological Insulators
Prof. Dr. Ewelina Hankiewicz
My research is focused on the theoretical aspects of the interplay between spintronics, superconductivity, high-energy anomalies and topology. I obtained my Ph.D. in 2001 from Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw for the work dedicated to study magnetic polarons at the antiferromagnetic lattices in the context of magnetic semiconductors and superconductors. Later, I spent several years as the Postdoctoral researcher at Ames Laboratory, Texas A&M and University of Missouri-Columbia, working on the heavy-fermion systems and the competition of the spin-orbit and electron-electron interactions physics. Especially, I contributed significantly to understanding of the spin-Hall effect that was later used for the first confirmation of the helical nature of edge states in topological insulators.
In 2008, I was appointed as an Assistant Professor at Würzburg University and in 2011, I was promoted to the University Professor.

My current research vision is to explore the boundaries between different areas of physics. In particular, I would like to connect quantum transport physics (realistic predictions of spectroscopic and transport properties) with understanding of pairing properties of new strongly correlated systems as well as understanding the role of high energy anomalies in the theoretical condensed matter physics.