Power from nanomagnets

Oles Sendetskyi wants to use polarity reversal in nanomagnets to develop a sustainable power source for small devices. Ukrainian Oles Sendetskyi deals with magnets so tiny that they amount to just one-thousandth of the width of a human hair. Yet the 27-year-old's ambitions are anything but tiny. Today many processes for sustainable production of electric power are inefficient or too expensive , says Sendetskyi, and I want to help to change that. The winner of the Founder Fellowship of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI wants to lay the foundation for power production using nanomagnets. Oles Sendetskyi received his bachelor's degree in physics in Kiev, and he completed his master's degree within the framework of the EU's Erasmus Mundus Programme for students from outside Europe in Rennes, Munich, Grenoble - and Villigen, where he was a trainee in the Laboratory for Neutron Scattering. After this, for his doctoral work, he returned to PSI, which had impressed him with its many large-scale research facilities.