Suchitra Sebastian

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Suchitra Sebastian is a British solid state physicist and university reader at Cambridge University .

Life

Sebastian received a Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management in 1997. From 1997 to 2000 she worked as a management consultant for the Tata Strategic Management Group. She then studied physics at Stanford University in California ( USA ), where she received a Ph.D. received. In 2006 she moved to Cambridge University in England, where she held various positions in the physics department (Research Fellow, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Lecturer). Since 2017 she has been a University Reader in Physics there.

research

As a doctoral student, Sebastian mainly investigated the thermodynamic properties of quantum magnets. During her time at Cambridge she turned to high-temperature superconductivity and discovered a. a. through transport measurements under high magnetic fields in cuprate superconductors, a Fermi surface consisting of several components , which she traced back to a charge density wave. She later investigated the heavy fermion compound SmB 6 , which had previously been regarded as an insulator, but found evidence of a Fermi surface in transport measurements that is not expected in insulators. These results led to a re-evaluation of the electronic structure of this class of compounds.

Awards

  • 2015: Philip Leverhulme Prize (Leverhulme Trust)
  • 2013: L'Oréal-UNESCO Fellowship for women in science
  • 2012: Moseley Medal and Prize for experimental physics (Institute of Physics)
  • 2012: IUPAP Young Scientist Medal

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IR Fisher, N. Kawashima, PA Sharma, M. Jaime, L. Balicas: Dimensional reduction at a quantum critical point . In: Nature . tape 441 , no. 7093 , June 2006, ISSN  1476-4687 , p. 617–620 , doi : 10.1038 / nature04732 ( nature.com [accessed January 27, 2019]).
  2. ↑ GG Lonzarich, WN Hardy, DA Bonn, Ruixing Liang, CH Mielke: A multi-component Fermi surface in the vortex state of an underdoped high-Tc superconductor . In: Nature . tape 454 , no. 7201 , July 2008, ISSN  1476-4687 , p. 200–203 , doi : 10.1038 / nature07095 ( nature.com [accessed January 27, 2019]).
  3. ^ N. Harrison, SE Sebastian: Protected Nodal Electron Pocket from Multiple-Q Ordering in Underdoped High Temperature Superconductors . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 106 , no. 22 , May 31, 2011, pp. 226402 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.106.226402 ( aps.org [accessed January 27, 2019]).
  4. ^ Suchitra E. Sebastian, G. Balakrishnan, GG Lonzarich, L. Balicas, J.-H. Park: Unconventional Fermi surface in an insulating state . In: Science . tape 349 , no. 6245 , July 17, 2015, ISSN  0036-8075 , p. 287–290 , doi : 10.1126 / science.aaa7974 , PMID 26138105 ( sciencemag.org [accessed January 27, 2019]).
  5. ^ Brian Pippard Prize. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ nlp28@cam.ac.uk: Dr Suchitra Sebastian awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize - Winton Program for the Physics of Sustainability . ( cam.ac.uk [accessed January 27, 2019]).
  7. ↑ King's College, Cambridge, Cb2 1st, UK: Suchitra Sebastian wins L'Oréal Women in Science Fellowship. May 1, 2012, accessed January 27, 2019 .
  8. ^ Moseley medal recipients. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
  9. ^ The Young Scientist Prize | IUPAP: The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sebastian, Suchitra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century