Nicola Spaldin
Nicola Ann Spaldin (born January 3, 1969 in Easington, United Kingdom ) is a British chemist and materials researcher at the ETH Zurich . She is best known for her theoretical work on multiferroics .
Live and act
Spaldin earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Cambridge in 1991 and a Ph.D. in 1996 from K. B. Whaley at the University of California, Berkeley with his thesis Calculating the Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures: A New Theoretical Approach. in chemistry . As a postdoctoral fellow , she worked with KM Rabe at Yale University before receiving her first professorship (Assistant Professor) at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1997 . In 2002 she became an associate professor and in 2006 she was given a full professorship.
Spaldin has been Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zurich since 2010 .
With the help of computer models, Spaldin developed a new class of crystalline compounds, the multiferroics . She theoretically justified why there are so few multiferroics and using computer simulations to create suitable crystals for research. It brought about a worldwide revival of multiferroics research, which after initial investigations in the Soviet Union had come to a standstill in the middle of the 20th century due to a lack of suitable materials.
Spaldin's work has been cited more than 40,000 times (according to Google Scholar , as of September 2019) , and its h-index is 81.
Awards (selection)
- 2008 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2010 American Physical Society McGroddy Prize for New Materials
- 2012 Rössler Prize from ETH Zurich
- 2013 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2015 Körber Prize for European Science
- 2017 UNESCO L'Oréal Prize
- 2017 member of the Royal Society
- 2019 member of the National Academy of Engineering
- 2019 Marcel Benoist Prize
Web links
- Spaldin, Nicola, Prof. Dr. at the ETH Zurich
- Nicola Spaldin in the database of renowned scientists AcademiaNet
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Speicher: The completely different iron lady. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , April 28, 2017, accessed on April 30, 2017
- ^ Nicola Spaldin - Google Scholar Citations. In: scholar.google.com. Retrieved May 1, 2018 .
- ↑ APS Fellow Archive. In: aps.org. March 2011, accessed December 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Rössler Prize. ETH Zurich , accessed on November 3, 2016 .
- ^ Körber Foundation Hamburg: Nicola Spaldin - Körber Prize Winner 2015. In: koerber-stiftung.de. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spaldin, Nicola |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spaldin, Nicola A .; Spaldin, Nicola Ann; Hill, Nicola; Hill, Nicola A .; Hill, Nicola Ann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist and materials scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd January 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Easington, UK |