Professor Marin Alexe received his PhD degree in 1995 from the Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, Romania. He has been appointed as Chair of Functional Materials at the University of Warwick after spending about 18 years at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics-Halle (1996-2013). His research interest is physics and engineering of complex oxide thins films for information technology and integration of functional materials for oxide electronics. He was recently awarded Wolfson Research Merit and Theo Murphy“Blue Sky”Awards of the Royal Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award.
