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Please visit my Google Scholar profile or ResearchGate profile for more information about my publications. 2020 H P Habibi, S Bance, M L McGarry, R H Andruet, M G Blaber, W Chen, J C Duda, M A Gubbins, E J Hutchinson, V Krishnamurthy, M A Seigler, C Wang, “Heatsink structures for heat-assisted magnetic recording heads “, US Patent 12,094,491 2019 Markus Gusenbauer, Johann Fischbacher, Alexander Kovacs, Harald Oezelt, Simon Bance, Panpan Zhao, Thomas George Woodcock, Thomas Schrefl, “Automated meshing of electron backscatter diffraction data and application to finite element micromagnetics”, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Volume 486, 15 September 2019, 165256, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2019.165256. S. Bance, C.H. Gan, M.A. Gubbins, “Magnetic write transducer with first and second pole sections”, US Patent 10,388,307 2018 ...

Magnetic materials and devices Magnetic recording In my current role at Seagate I am mainly concerned with design of the magnetic writer in HAMR, which faces significantly different constraints than the writer in PMR did. For instance, the inclusion of a laser into the transducer device constrains the shape and position of the write pole and changes the recording physics. Particularly, the role of thermal energy during magnetization reversal of the media grains is completely new. ...

I am a physicist/engineer currently working at Seagate Technology on research and development of heat-assisted magnetic recording. Before that I worked at St Pölten University of Applied Sciences, mainly on projects developing rare-earth-free and rare-earth-reduced permanent magnets. My main competencies include magnetic materials simulation (e.g. soft, hard and composite magnetic materials) and device simulation (transducer development). I use Python a lot in my work, for simulation, post-processing, statistical analysis, plotting and visualization. I have lots of experience of micromagnetic modelling and other types of FEM modelling using multi-physics such as COMSOL and ANSYS. I am used to working with high performance computing (HPC) on Linux. ...