Nicola Spaldin
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Born | 1969 (age 54–55)[3] Sunderland, UK |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
Awards | James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (2010) Körber European Science Prize (2015) L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award (2017) |
Scientific career | |
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Institutions | ETH Zurich University of California, Santa Barbara Yale University |
Thesis | Calculating the electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures (1996) |
Website | www |
Nicola Ann Spaldin (born 1969)[4][3] FRS is Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zurich, known for her pioneering research on multiferroics.[5][2][6][7][8][9]
Education and early life
A native of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, Spaldin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1991, and a PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996.[10][11]
Career and research
Spaldin was inspired to search for multiferroics, magnetic ferroelectric materials, by a remark about potential collaboration made by a colleague studying ferroelectrics during her postdoctoral research studying magnetic phenomena at Yale University from 1996 to 1997.[12] She continued to develop the theory of these materials as a new faculty member at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and in 2000 published (under her previous name, Hill) "a seminal article"[13] that for the first time explained why few such materials were known.[14] Following her theoretical predictions, in 2003 she was part of a team that experimentally demonstrated the multiferroic properties of bismuth ferrite.[15] She moved from UCSB to ETH Zurich in 2010.[11] Her publications are listed on Google scholar.[2]
Awards and honours
Spaldin was the 2010 winner of the American Physical Society's James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials,[16] the 2015 winner of the Körber European Science Prize for "laying the theoretical foundation for the new family of multiferroic materials".[15][11][13] and one of the laureates of the 2017 L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science.[17] Spaldin is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2008), the Materials Research Society (2011) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013),[11] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[18]
References
- ^ Spaldin, Nicola Ann (2005). "Materials Science: The Renaissance of Magnetoelectric Multiferroics". Science. 309 (5733): 391–392. doi:10.1126/science.1113357. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16020720. (subscription required)
- ^ a b c Nicola Spaldin publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b Nicola Spaldin at Library of Congress
- ^ Nicola Spaldin's ORCID 0000-0003-0709-9499
- ^ Spaldin, Nicola A. (2003). Magnetic materials: fundamentals and device applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521016582. OCLC 935635324.
- ^ Nicola Spaldin publications from Europe PubMed Central
- ^ Nicola Spaldin publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ Wang, J.; Neaton, J. B.; Zheng, H.; Nagarajan, V.; Ogale, S. B.; Liu, B.; Viehland, D.; Vaithyanathan, V.; Schlom, D. G. (2003). "Epitaxial BiFeO₃ Multiferroic Thin Film Heterostructures". Science. 299 (5613): 1719–1722. Bibcode:2003Sci...299.1719W. doi:10.1126/science.1080615. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 12637741. (subscription required)
- ^ Ramesh, R.; Spaldin, Nicola A. (2007). "Multiferroics: progress and prospects in thin films". Nature Materials. 6 (1): 21–29. Bibcode:2007NatMa...6...21R. doi:10.1038/nmat1805. (subscription required)
- ^ Hill, Nicola Ann (1996). Calculating the electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures. oskicat.berkeley.edu (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley. OCLC 36371687.
- ^ a b c d "Nicola Spaldin Curriculum vitae". ethz.ch. Archived from the original on 23 March 2017.
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- ^ a b "Nicola Spaldin to receive the 2015 Körber Prize". koerber-stiftung.de. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015.
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- ^ a b Spaldin, Nicola (2015), "Multiferroics and me", In Person, Science, 349 (6243): 110, Bibcode:2015Sci...349..110S, doi:10.1126/science.caredit.a1500156.
- ^ "2010 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials Recipient: Nicola A. Spaldin". American Physical Society. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015.
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