Anna Semisalova is a lecturer at the Faculty of Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) since March 2019. She obtained her PhD in Physics from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) in 2012 in the topic of dilute magnetic semiconductors. After a postdoc and a following assistant professorship (since 2013) at Lomonosov MSU in nanomagnetism and smart magnetic materials, she spent 4 years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, HelmholtzZentrum Dresden – Rossendorf (2015-2019) where she joined a team working on research of the disorder-induced ferromagnetism in B2 materials (Fe60Al40, Fe50Rh50). Current scientific activities in UDE are focused on magnetization dynamics in thin films and nanostructures, including laterally patterned magnetic landscapes produced by ion irradiation. She co-authored 2 patents and a book chapter (Springer Series in Materials Science).