Professor Hans-Benjamin Braun

Professor Hans-Benjamin Braun of Switzerland, the brilliant whistle-blowing expert on the Physics of the Nordstream pipeline explosion.

EDUCATION: 1991 PhD, (Dr. sc. nat. ETH), Theoretical Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. 1987 MSc, University of Basel, Switzerland.

RECENT POSITIONS: 2018 - Guest Professor, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

2018 - Associate Faculty, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland. 2016 - Professor in Theoretical Physics, UCD.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS: 2007 - 2016 Associate Professor in Theoretical Physics (UCD). 2006 - 2008 Director, UCD Theoretical Physics Programme. 2004 - 2007 Lecturer in Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics (UCD). 2003 - 2004 Visiting Lecturer, Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH-Zürich. 2002 - 2003 Visiting Scientist, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France. 2001 - 2001 Visiting Scientist, Courant Institute, New York University, New York. 1996 - 2002 Senior Research Scientist, Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland. 1994 - 1996 NSERC-International Fellow (Nat. Science & Eng. Research Council of Canada) Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. 1993 - 1994 Research Scientist at the Center for Magnetic Recording Research, University of California at San Diego. 1992 - 1994 Research Scientist at the Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego. 1987 - 1991 Research Assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at ETH-Zürich.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS: 2014 IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer Award, (∼ 50 invited talks worldwide). 1994 - 1996 NSERC International Fellowship. 1995 - 1997 Swiss National Science Foundation for Advanced Researchers. 1992 - 1993 Swiss National Science Foundation for Junior Researchers.

SUPERVISION: 2008 - 2017 3 Postdocs, 2 MSc Students, 3 PhD Students. 2006 - 2010 1 PhD Student, PSI/ETH Zürich (PSI Award for best PhD Thesis). 1998 - 2001 1 PhD Student, PSI/ETH Zürich (ETH Medal for best PhD Thesis). 1997 MSc Student, PSI/ETH Zurich. 1990 MSc Student, ETH Zurich

ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS: 2017 Member Program Committee, Intermag Conference, Dublin, (∼1500 participants). 2016 Member Program Committee, 9th International Conference on Small Particle Magnetism, NIST Gaithersburg, (∼500 participants). 2016 Member Program Committee, 13th Joint International MMM-Intermag Conference, 2016 San Diego, California (∼2500 participants). 2008 Member Organizing Committee, Joint European Magnetic Symposia, Dublin (∼1000 participants) 2008 Co-Editor Conference Proceedings Joint European Magnetic Symposia (JEMS), with R.W. Chantrell and R. Sessoli; J. Magn. Magn. Mat. 322, (2010).

REFEREEING: 2015 European Science Foundation (ERC Advanced). 2010 to present: Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports. 1994 to present - Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B. 2015 - Book project, Oxford University Press. 2015 Swiss National Science Foundation. 2012 - EPSRC(UK). 2012 Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). 2005 NSERC of Canada. 2012 FONDECYT (Chilean National Science and Tech. Com.). 2010 US National Science Foundation. 2008 CNRS France. 2008 Science Foundation Ireland.

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES: 2005 - Faculty member, UCD School of Physics. 2016 - 2018 Head of Research, UCD School of Physics. 2005 - 2008 Director Theoretical Physics Programme, UCD School of Physics.

REVIEWING ACTIVITIES: 2018 Member International Expert Panel, Evaluation SPP 2137 on Skyrmionics, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Bad Honnef, Germany. 2018 International Expert and Assessor, Habilitation Dr. J.-V. Kim, Universite de Paris Sud, Orsay, France. 2017 International Expert and Assessor, Habilitiation Dr. A. Vindigni, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. 2017 External Referee (2 ×), promotion to Professor, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. 2016 Panel Member, Swedish Research Council. 2015 Nomination Committee, Europhysics Prize. 2015 - Member Governing Board, School of Theoretical Physics ("Schrödinger Institute"), Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (DIAS). 2015 to present Member Editorial Board, Nature Scientific Reports. 2015 External examiner on PhD-thesis, Göteborg University. 2014 External examiner on PhD-thesis, ETH Zürich, 2010.

SELECTED INVITED TALKS/LECTURE SERIES: • Invited Lecture Series (4 lectures) at IEEE Magnetics Society International Summer School in Magnetism, Quito (Ecuador), June 8, 2018, (80 international students). • Invited double lecture at 48th IFF Julich Spring School in Condensed Matter on “Topological Insulators, Skyrmions and Majoranas", FZ Julich, Germany, March 27 - April 7, 2017 (300 international students). • “Dynamic and static stabilisation of skyrmions and the emergence of chirality in magnets" (Invited Colloquium), TU Munich, Garching, Germany, February 9, 2017. • Plenary talk at XI LAW3M 2016, Latin American Workshop on Magnetism, Magnetic Materials and their Applications, Playa del Carmen, Mexico, 13 - 18 November, 2016. • Extended invited Lecture Series (6 lectures) in “Topological Patterns and Dynamics in Magnetic Elements and in Condensed Matter", International Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems (MPIKS) Dresden, Germany, 27 June - 2 July, 2016 (50 participants). • IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Award 2014 entailing ' 50 invited talks worldwide. • Invited Talk on Topological Effects in Nanomagnetism in Invited Symposium on "Unconventional Spin Structures", Spring Meeting DPG (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft), Dresden, Germany, 30 March - 4 April 2014. • "Topological Effects in Nanomagnetism: from superparamagnetism to chiral quantum solitons", Invited Opening Lecture, IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School (∼100 participants). Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 8 August 2014. • Keynote lecture: "Topological Effects in Nanomagnetism", Meeting IEEE Magnetics Society Taiwan (∼ 200 participants), National Tsing Hua University, 23 June 2014. • Keynote lecture: "Topological Effects in Nanomagnetism", 50th anniversary meeting, IEEE Magnetics Society Japan, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan, 13 June 2014. • Invited double lecture "Magnetism and Topology", TRR80 MPI-TUM Summer School on ‘Functionality of Correlated Materials’, Chiemsee, Germany, September 2012 (∼ 100 participants). • Invited talk on "Magnetization dynamics in nanowires and dipolar arrays of nanoislands " 8th International Conference of Fine Particle Magnetism (ICFPM), Perpignan, France, 24-27 June 2013. • "Disorder and avalanches in artificial spin ice" (Invited Talk), Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, November, 2011. • "Emergence of Magnetic Monopoles in artificial kagome spin ice" (Invited Talk), Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November, 2010.