Torbjörn Björkman

Torbjörn Björkman is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, focusing on Physics and Technologies for a sustainable future. With 43 publications (2006-2024), his work aligns with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly in sustainable materials and energy technologies.

• Expertise: Rare-earth Permanent Magnets, Giant Magnetocaloric Effect, Theoretical Methods, Magnetic Cooling, Microscopic Mechanisms, Orthorhombic Phases, Degrees of Freedom

His research trends involve Density Functional Theory, First-principles Calculations, and Two-dimensional Materials, with recent work on Pressure-induced Stacking Faults (2024), Magnetocaloric Modeling (2024), and High-throughput Data Mining (2020). He has served as a peer reviewer for journals like Nano Letters, Physical Review Letters, and Cambridge University Press since 2017.