Ionela Vrejoiu was born in Bucharest, Romania, where she studied physics. In 2000, she obtained her PhD in Austria, and has been working in Halle at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics since 2005.

In her research work, Ionela Vrejoiu is looking for new materials that might be suitable for constructing memory chips for computers. To "build" these chips, she makes use of a pulsed laser: With the help of this light beam, she is able to create ultra-thin material layers that are free of defects.

Ionela Vrejoiu came to the Max Planck Institute as a pulsed laser specialist. She gained a lot of experience and expertise with this technique working in Romania and Austria. She is currently honing the technique at her institute, trying to improve it even more. She hopes that the next step will be the actual construction of the memory chip itself.

Source: Deutsche Welle