Academic profile
Full Professor of Condensed Matter Physics
At Addis Ababa University since February 2026
Advancing condensed matter physics, materials science, and scientific capacity building through research, graduate mentorship, and university leadership.
Featured achievements
A senior academic profile shaped by scholarship, graduate supervision, collaboration, and service to higher education.
Full Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at Addis Ababa University since February 2026
ORCID-linked scholarly profile with indexed work across physics, materials science, and energy materials
C.V. Raman International Fellowship for African Researchers, Department of Physics, Punjab University, India
Founding member and former President of the Ethiopian Physical Society
Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Physics, Addis Ababa University, since December 2022
Supervisor and examiner for PhD and MSc students across Addis Ababa, Hawassa, Jimma, Wollega, Adama Science and Technology, Wollo, Salale, Dilla, and other universities
Research highlights
Theoretical, analytical, and computational study of structural, electronic, magnetic, and thermodynamic properties of materials.
Collaborators: Addis Ababa University researchers, graduate students, and international condensed matter physics collaborators
Impact: Connects Ethiopian physics research with frontier problems in magnetism, spin systems, and functional materials.
Research on photoinduced ferromagnetism, magnon dispersion, spin-wave scattering, hole doping, and transition temperature enhancement in DMS systems such as (Ga,Mn)As, Fe/GaSb, Sc/GaAs, and doped AlP.
Collaborators: Theoretical physics groups and graduate researchers working on magnetic semiconductors
Impact: Supports the search for room-temperature magnetic semiconductor behavior relevant to spintronic device concepts.
Study of structure-property relationships in advanced materials including magnetic, electronic, photonic, nanostructured, and energy materials.
Collaborators: Materials scientists, chemists, and computational researchers in Ethiopia and abroad
Impact: Strengthens materials research capacity for electronics, energy, and sustainable technology applications.
Use of Green function formalism, density functional theory, Quantum ESPRESSO, SCAPS simulation, and numerical modeling to study material behavior and device performance.
Collaborators: Computational science and engineering researchers, graduate students, and international co-authors
Impact: Enables predictive materials research and graduate training in modern computational methods.
Recent publications
2026 · Spintronics
Scientific African · DOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2026.e03362
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Scientific African · DOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2026.e03352
Read paper2025 · Solar Energy Materials
Solid State Communications · DOI: 10.1016/j.ssc.2025.116179
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