Rate My Professor Johan Åkerman

Åkerman's research centers on experimental spintronics, with a particular emphasis on spin torque nano-oscillators and spin Hall nano-oscillators. His work explores new materials and architectures for these devices, electronic circuits, mutual synchronization, magnetodynamical solitons such as magnetic droplets and skyrmions, and large networks of nano-oscillators for neuromorphic computing and solving combinatorial optimization problems using Ising machines. He has published around 350 papers, accumulating over 18,000 citations. Notable publications include "Opportunities and challenges for spintronics in the microelectronics industry" (Nature Electronics, 2020), "Roadmap of spin–orbit torques" (IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 2021), "Advances in magnetics roadmap on spin-wave computing" (IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 2022), "Direct observation of a propagating spin wave induced by spin-transfer torque" (Nature Nanotechnology, 2011), and "Spin-torque and spin-Hall nano-oscillators" (Proceedings of the IEEE, 2016). Åkerman has secured major funding, including the Swedish Research Council's Distinguished Professor Grant (32 million SEK, 2025-2032) for research on extremely large networks of extremely small nano-oscillators, an ERC Proof of Concept Grant (2022), and an ERC Consolidator Grant (2019). He served as a member of the Young Academy of Sweden from 2011 to 2016 and is the founder of three spintronics-related startups: NanOsc AB, NanOsc Instruments AB, and Spinwave Computing AB.