Rate My Professor Markus Wohlgenannt

Markus Wohlgenannt is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Iowa. He received his diploma in applied physics from the Technical University of Graz in Austria and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Utah in 2000. His doctoral research, advised by Z. Valy Vardeny, focused on optical and electron resonance spectroscopy of conjugated polymers. Following his Ph.D., he completed a postdoctoral appointment in the same research group at the University of Utah before joining the faculty in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Iowa in 2002. As a condensed matter experimentalist, Professor Wohlgenannt conducts research in Physics, with designated areas including condensed matter and materials physics as well as optics and photonics.

Professor Wohlgenannt specializes in spectroscopy and transport studies of organic semiconductor devices. His research aims to combine organic semiconductor physics and spintronics to create hybrid organic/inorganic spintronic devices. His laboratory has synthesized and tested a variety of semiconductor devices, such as organic light-emitting diodes, photovoltaic devices, and spin-valve devices. He has authored or coauthored approximately 60 scientific papers and several book chapters. Key publications include 'Large magnetoresistance at room temperature in semiconducting polymer sandwich devices' (New Journal of Physics, 2004), which reported room-temperature organic magnetoresistance; 'Organic Spin Valves: A Review' (Advanced Functional Materials, 2016); and contributions to the 'World Scientific Reference on Spin in Organics' (2018). Professor Wohlgenannt has advised numerous graduate students, including Ph.D. recipients such as James Rybicki (2018) and Dylan Paré (2022), contributing to advancements in magnetic field effects and spectroscopies in organic semiconductors.