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Athena Sefat

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Athena Sefat
Athena Sefat in 2019

Athena Safa Sefat is an American physicist working on quantum materials and correlated phenomena.[1] She is a senior scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and leads the DOE Basic Energy Science on "Probing Competing Chemical, Electronic, and Spin Correlations for Quantum Materials Functionality."

Sefat earned a PhD from McMaster University (Canada), followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Ames Laboratory. She joined ORNL in 2007 and was awarded the prestigious DOE Office of Science Early Career Award for the period 2010–2015. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics. She serves as a member of the American Physical Society Committee on International Freedom of Scientists,[2] and the Materials Research Society New Meetings Subcommittee.

References

  1. ^ "Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Athena S Sefat".
  2. ^ "American Physical Society - Committee on International Freedom of Scientists".