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Please visit my Google Scholar profile or ResearchGate profile for more information about my publications. 2023 Heatsink structures for heat-assisted magnetic recording heads, US Patent 11,538,496 2021 Heatsink structures for heat-assisted magnetic recording heads, US Patent 11,011,201 2019 M. Gusenbauer, J. Fischbacher, A. Kovacs, H. Oezelt, S. Bance, P. Zhao, T. G. Woodcock, T. 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 Magnetic write transducer with first and second pole sections, US Patent 10,388,307 2018 Johann Fischbacher, Alexander Kovacs, Markus Gusenbauer, Harald Oezelt, Lukas Exl, Simon Bance and Thomas Schrefl, “Micromagnetics of rare-earth efficient permanent magnets”, J....

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....