Nicola Spaldin
Nicola Spaldin FRS | |
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Born | 1969 (age 47–48)[1] |
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Institutions |
ETH Zurich University of California, Santa Barbara Yale University |
Alma mater |
University of Cambridge (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
Thesis | Calculating the electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures (1996) |
Notable awards |
Körber European Science Prize (2015) James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials |
Website www |
Nicola Ann Spaldin (born 1969)[4][1] FRS is Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zurich, known for her pioneering research on multiferroics.[5][3][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 magnetic phenomena during her postdoctoral research studying ferroelectrics at Yale University from 1996 to 1997. She continued to study the theory of these materials as a new faculty member at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and in 2000 published "a seminal article"[12] that for the first time explained why few such materials were known.[13] In 2003 she was part of a team that experimentally demonstrated the multiferroic properties of bismuth ferrite.[14] She moved from UCSB to ETH Zurich in 2010.[11]
Awards and honours
Spaldin is the 2015 winner of the Körber European Science Prize for "laying the theoretical foundation for the new family of multiferroic materials".[14][11][12] Spaldin is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2008) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013),[11] and the 2010 winner of the American Physical Society's James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials.[15] She was one of the laureates of the 2017 L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science.[16] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[17]
References
- 1 2 Nicola Spaldin at Library of Congress Authorities
- ↑ Spaldin, Nicola Ann (2005). "Materials Science: The Renaissance of Magnetoelectric Multiferroics". Science. 309 (5733): 391–392. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16020720. doi:10.1126/science.1113357. (subscription required)
- 1 2 Nicola Spaldin publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ↑ Nicola Spaldin's Entry at ORCID
- ↑ 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, a service provided by Elsevier. (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. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 12637741. doi:10.1126/science.1080615. (subscription required)
- ↑ Ramesh, R.; Spaldin, Nicola A. (2007). "Multiferroics: progress and prospects in thin films". Nature Materials. 6 (1): 21–29. 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.
- 1 2 3 4 "Nicola Spaldin Curriculum vitae". ethz.ch. retrieved 2015-06-16.
- 1 2 "Nicola Spaldin to receive the 2015 Körber Prize". koerber-stiftung.de. Archived from the original on 2015-07-21. retrieved 2015-07-16
- ↑ Hill, Nicola Ann (2000). "Why Are There so Few Magnetic Ferroelectrics?". Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 104 (29): 6694–6709. ISSN 1520-6106. doi:10.1021/jp000114x. (subscription required)
- 1 2 Spaldin, Nicola (2015), "Multiferroics and me", In Person, Science, 349 (6243): 110, doi:10.1126/science.caredit.a1500156.
- ↑ "2010 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials Recipient: Nicola A. Spaldin". American Physical Society. , retrieved 2015-07-16.
- ↑ "Announcement of Laureates of 2017 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards". unesco.org.
- ↑ Anon (2017). "Professor Nicola Spaldin FRS". royalsociety.org. Royal Society. Retrieved 28 May 2017. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2016-03-09.