Prof. Alexander Gerber works on a number of subjects in experimental solid state physics, including: disordered and granular metals and superconductors in high magnetic fields, nano-scale magnetism, quantum effects in ferromagnets, heterogeneous magnetic systems, extraordinary Hall effect, spintronics and Hall effect spintronics, magnetic semiconductors, topological Hall effect, applications of Hall effect spintronics for high sensitivity magnetic sensors, random access memory and high selectivity gas detection.
Research achievements include: Seven granted and pending patents on magnetic sensors, multi-bit random access memory and magnetic gas detection.