Jeroen van den Brink

Who is Jeroen van den Brink?

Jeroen van den Brink is a theoretical condensed matter physicist, director at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, IFW Dresden and professor at the Dresden University of Technology in Germany. Van den Brink is known for contributions to the field of strongly correlated materials, in particular for proposals on magnetic and orbital ordering and mechanisms for multiferroicity.

He obtained a PhD from the University of Groningen in 1997, was a professor of theoretical condensed matter physics working at Leiden University from 2002–2009 and in 2009 visiting professor at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science.