Professor of Physics, University of Regensburg

Jaroslav Fabian is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and Professor of Physics at University of Regensburg, where he leads the Spintronics Research Group and serves as spokesperson of Collaborative Research Center 1277. He is also a member of the DFG Cluster of Excellence EXC 3112 – Center for Chiral Electronics. He received his PhD from Stony Brook University in 1997 and subsequently held research positions at the University of Maryland, the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, and the University of Graz before joining the Uni Regensburg in 2004.

His research focuses on spintronics and spin-related phenomena in complex nanoscale systems, including spin–orbit coupling, magnetic proximity effects, van der Waals materials, two-dimensional magnets, twisted heterostructures, and superconducting spintronics. His group combines first-principles theory and model approaches to investigate spin, charge, optical, and magnetic properties of low-dimensional materials and heterostructures.

He is widely recognized for influential contributions to the fundamentals and applications of spintronics, including highly cited work on spin phenomena in semiconductors and two-dimensional materials.