Claudia Felser

Winners of the American Physical Society Awards in 2019: Julia Mundy, Giulia Galli and Claudia Felser (from left to right)

Claudia Anna-Maria Felser (also: Claudia Felser-Wenz , born July 28, 1962 in Aachen ) is a German chemist and materials scientist as well as a professor at the University of Mainz . Felser has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden since 2011 .

Life

Felser studied chemistry from 1984 to 1989 at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne and graduated in 1989 with a diploma. She then worked in the research group of Georg Hohlneicher and was in Cologne in 1994 with a thesis on band structure calculations and photoemission experiments on between valent europium doctorate . In the following year she conducted research on superconductors under Arndt Simon and Ole Krogh Andersen at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and from 1995 to 1996 she went to the French Center national de la recherche scientifique in Nantes , where she was part of J. Rouxel's research group researched. In 1996 she came as a university assistant at the University of Mainz , where in 2002 his habilitation and since 2003 professor of inorganic and analytical chemistry.

Her research focus is in particular materials science with a view to computer technology and the use of solar energy .

As a member of the SPD's nomination, Felser was a member of the 13th Federal Assembly in 2009 .

Awards (selection)

• 2001: Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
• 2010: 2010 Nakamura Lecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara
• 2012: Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
• 2015: Tsungming Tu Prize
• 2016 IEEE Fellow election
• 2018 member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• 2019 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials from the American Physical Society
• 2020 member of the National Academy of Engineering

Fonts

• Band structure calculations and photoemission experiments on intervalent europium compounds , dissertation University of Cologne, 1995

Web links

• Member entry by Claudia Felser (with picture and curriculum vitae) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
• Literature by and about Claudia Felser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography
• Claudia Felser in the database of renowned academics AcademiaNet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see homepage under Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Annual Report 2011 of the Max Planck Society, Beileger, page about Claudia Felser .
2. ↑ PDF list 13th Federal Assembly (Länder) ( Memento from June 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Prof. Claudia Felser receives the Nakamura Lecture Prize from the University of California, Santa Barbara , in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from October 13, 2010, accessed on October 25, 2010.
4. ↑ Claudia Felser elected Fellow of the American Physical Society , in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de); Retrieved December 1, 2012.
5. ^ "Election of Professor Felser to IEEE" ; accessed on March 8, 2016
6. ^ Members. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .