Benjamin Jungfleisch

Biography

M. Benjamin Jungfleisch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Quantum Science and Engineering program. His research spans a broad range of magnetism-related phenomena, with a focus on spin transport and spin dynamics in nanostructures.

He has received several prestigious awards, including the Department of Energy Early Career Research Award (2019), the National Science Foundation EPSCoR RII Track-4 Fellowship (2018), the NSF CAREER Award (2024), and the Outstanding Scholarship Award from the University of Delaware’s College of Arts and Sciences (2025).

Prior to joining the University of Delaware in 2018, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He earned both his Ph.D. and M.S. in Physics from the University of Kaiserslautern.

Research

Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science, Spintronics, Magnonics, Nanomagne​tism, Spin Transport Phenomena, Spin Dynamics​​