:Claudia Felser

{{Short description|German solid state chemist and materials scientist (born 1962)}}

{{Infobox scientist

| image =

| name = Claudia Felser

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|07|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Aachen, Germany

| education = University of Cologne

| thesis_title = Bandstrukturrechnungen und Photoemissionsexperimente an zwischenvalenten Europiumverbindungen

| thesis_url = https://www.worldcat.org/de/title/61116395

| thesis_year = 1994

| doctoral_advisor = Georg Hohlneicher

| academic_advisors = Arndt Simon
Ole Krogh Andersen
Jean Rouxel

| workplaces = University of Mainz
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids

| fields = Physics
Chemistry
Materials Science

| spouse = Stuart Parkin

}}

Claudia Felser (28 July 1962 in Aachen) is a German solid state chemist and materials scientist. She is currently a director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids. Felser was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for the prediction and discovery of engineered quantum materials ranging from Heusler compounds to topological insulators.

Education and career

Felser studied chemistry and physics at the University of Cologne, completing her diploma in solid state chemistry (1989) and her doctorate in physical chemistry (1994). After postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany (1994-1995) with Arndt Simon and Ole Krogh Andersen, she moved to the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Nantes, France (1995-1996), where she worked in the group of Jean Rouxel. Afterwards, she joined the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in 1996 as an assistant professor (C1). She resided there in 2002 and was appointed to a full professor (C4) in 2003.{{Cite web |title=Felser, Claudia |url=https://www.mpg.de/6348381/chemical-physics-of-solids-felser |access-date=4 March 2019 |website=www.mpg.de |language=en}}

In 1999, she was a visiting professor at Princeton University and, in 2000, at the University of Caen. From 2009 to 2010 she was a visiting professor at Stanford University and in 2019 visiting professor at Harvard University in the department of Physics/ Applied Physics.

Since September 2011 she is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids and Professor hon. at the TU Dresden. Since June 2023, Felser has been Vice President of the Max Planck Society (CPT section).{{Cite web |title=Scientific Vice-Presidents of the Max Planck Society |url=https://www.mpg.de/20361270/vice-presidents |access-date=12 July 2023 |website=www.mpg.de |language=en}}

Research

Her initial research interests include Heusler compounds and related filled tetrahedral structure types, the design, synthesis and physical investigation of new quantum materials, and materials for energy technologies (solar cells, thermoelectrics, catalysis, spintronics). The physical investigations are executed on bulk material, thin films and artificial superstructures.

Her current research focuses on relativistic materials science. Felser, along with collaborators, developed the field of topological quantum chemistry, which involves the design, synthesis, and realization of new multifunctional materials guided by theory. In particular, she focuses on new materials for quantum technologies such as topological insulators, Weyl and Dirac semimetals, skyrmions, superconductors, new fermions, and new quasiparticles (axions, majorana, parafermions, etc.).{{Cite web |title=CV Claudia Felser (MPI CPfS) |url=https://www.cpfs.mpg.de/person/29009/1453339 |website=www.cpfs.mpg.de/person/29009/1453339}}

File:Winners of the 2019 APS DMP Awards.jpg, co-recipient of the 2019 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials awarded by the American Physical Society (APS).{{cite web |url = http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/mcgroddy.cfm |title = James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials |type = Complete list of the recipients of this Prize |last = American Physical Society (APS) |date = March 2019 |website = APS.org |publisher = American Physical Society |location = College Park, Maryland (United States) |access-date = 25 August 2019}}
She is accompanied by Julia Mundy & Giulia Galli (in left and in the middle respectively).]]

Bibliography

Three of her most-cited publications are:

{{Cite journal|last1=Graf|first1=Tanja|last2=Felser|first2=Claudia|last3=Parkin|first3=Stuart S.P.|date=1 May 2011|title=Simple rules for the understanding of Heusler compounds|journal=Progress in Solid State Chemistry|language=en|volume=39|issue=1|pages=1–50|doi=10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2011.02.001}}
{{Cite journal |last1=Shekhar |first1=C. |last2=Nayak |first2=A. K. |last3=Sun |first3=Y. |last4=Schmidt |first4=M. |last5=Leermakers |first5=I. |last6=Zeitler |first6=U. |last7=Skourski |first7=Y. |last8=Felser |first8=C. |last9=Wosnitza |first9=J. |last10=Liu |first10=Z. K. |last11=Chen |first11=Y. L. |date=1 August 2009 |title=Extremely large magnetoresistance and ultrahigh mobility in the topological Weyl semimetal candidate NbP |journal=Nature Physics |language=en |volume=11 |issue=8 |pages=645–649 |doi=10.1038/NPHYS3372 |s2cid=119282987 |issn=|doi-access=free |arxiv=1502.04361 }}
{{Cite journal|last1=Felser|first1=Claudia|last2=Fecher|first2=Gerhard H.|last3=Balke|first3=Benjamin|date=22 January 2007|title=Spintronics: A Challenge for Materials Science and Solid-State Chemistry|journal=Angewandte Chemie International Edition|language=en|volume=46|issue=5|pages=668–699|doi=10.1002/anie.200601815|pmid=17219604}}

Awards and honors

2025: Foreign Member of the Royal Society{{Cite web |date=2025-05-20 |title=Exceptional scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society |url=https://royalsociety.org/news/2025/05/new-fellows/ |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Royal Society |language=en}}
2024: Von Hippel Award{{Cite web |title=Claudia Anna-Maria Felser received Von Hippel Award, the Materials Research Society’s highest honor |url=https://www.mrs.org/publications-digital-content/news/press-room/press-release/2024/11/04/claudia-anna-maria-felser-to-receive-von-hippel-award--the-materials-research-society-s-highest-honor |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=www.mrs.org |language=en}}
2023: EPS CMD Europhysics Prize{{Cite web |title=2023 EPS Europhysics Prize |url=https://www.cpfs.mpg.de/3639344/20230623b |access-date=12 July 2023 |website=www.cpfs.mpg.de |language=en}}
2022: Member of the Academy od Sciences and Literature{{Cite web |title=Vier neue Mitglieder in die Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur gewählt : Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur {{!}} Mainz |url=https://www.adwmainz.de/nachrichten/artikel/vier-neue-mitglieder-in-die-akademie-der-wissenschaften-und-der-literatur-gewaehlt.html |access-date=5 January 2023 |website=www.adwmainz.de}}
2002: Blaise Pascal Medal{{Cite web |title=Leonardo da Vinci Award and Blaise Pascal Medallists 2022 – European Academy of Sciences |date=19 July 2022 |url=https://www.eurasc.eu/leonardo-da-vinci-award-and-blaise-pascal-medallists-2022/ |access-date=5 January 2023 |language=pt-PT}} of the European Academy of Sciences
2022: Liebig Commemorative Medal of the GDCh (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker){{Cite web |title=Liebig commemorative coin {{!}} Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V. |url=https://en.gdch.de/gdch/prizes-and-awards/gdch-awards/liebig-commemorative-coin.html |access-date=31 August 2022 |website=en.gdch.de |language=en-US}}
2022: Max Born Medal and Prize{{Cite web |title=Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger |url=https://www.dpg-physik.de/auszeichnungen/dpg-preise-mit-anderen-organisationen/max-born-preis-und-medaille/preistraeger |access-date=20 June 2022 |website=DPG |language=en}} of the German Physical Society (DPG) and the British Institute of Physics (IOP)
2021: International Member of National Academy of Science{{cite web |title=Claudia A. Felser // Membership Type: International Member NAS (elected 2021) |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20049231.html |access-date=9 February 2022 |website=www.nasonline.org}} (NAS), US
2020: International Member of National Academy of Engineering{{Cite web |title=National Academy of Engineering Elects 86 Members and 18 International Members |url=https://nae.edu/224584/National-Academy-of-Engineering-Elects-86-Members-and-18-International-Members- |access-date=20 June 2022 |website=NAE Website}} (NAE), US
2019: APS James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials with Bernevig and Dai
2018: Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina{{cite web |title=Leopoldina: Claudia Felser |url=https://www.cpfs.mpg.de/en/leopoldina-felser |access-date=9 January 2019 |website=www.leopoldina.org}}
2016: Elected fellow of the IEEE{{cite web |date=7 December 2015 |title=Election of Professor Felser to IEEE Fellow |url=https://www.cpfs.mpg.de/en/IEEE_Felser |access-date=9 January 2019}} (magnetic society)
2015: Tsungming Tu Award{{Cite web |title=Professor Claudia Felser honored by Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan with the Tsungming Tu Award |url=https://www.cpfs.mpg.de/2484573/20150420_felser_tsungming_award |access-date=21 June 2022 |website=www.cpfs.mpg.de |language=en}}
2014: Alexander M. Cruickshank Lecturer Award{{Cite web |title=Claudia Felser receives GRC-Alexander-M-Cruickshank-Lecturer Award |url=https://www.cpfs.mpg.de/2449653/20141002 |access-date=21 June 2022 |website=www.cpfs.mpg.de |language=en}}
2013: Elected American Physical Society (APS) fellow{{cite press release |url=http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/15953_ENG_HTML.php |title=Claudia Felser appointed Fellow of the American Physical Society |publisher=APS |date=7 December 2012 |access-date=9 January 2019}} (Division of Condensed Matter Physics)
2010: Nakamura Lecture Award of the University of California Santa Barbara{{cite web |title=Claudia Felser |url=https://www.cpfs.mpg.de/person/29009/2623142 |access-date=9 January 2019}}
2001: Order of Merit (Landesverdienstorden) of the federal state Rhineland-Palatinate for the foundation of the first NAT-LAB for school students at the University Mainz with a focus in female school students

She is the chairwoman of a German Research Foundation research group.{{cite web |title=Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser |url=http://www.mpg.de/6348381/chem_physik_fester_stoffe_wissM20 |access-date=9 January 2019}} She was a member of the 13th Bundesversammlung (Germany).{{cite web | title=SPD und FDP: Abgeordnete zur Bundesversammlung | website=Volksfreund | date=18 March 2009 | url=https://www.volksfreund.de/themen/spd-und-fdp-abgeordnete-zur-bundesversammlung_aid-6257153 | language=de | access-date=23 July 2023}}

Personal life

Claudia Felser is married to the physicist Stuart S. P. Parkin.{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=Kerri |date=1 June 2014 |title=Love in the lab: Close collaborators |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=510 |issue=7506 |pages=458–460 |doi=10.1038/510458a |pmid=24965634 |bibcode=2014Natur.510..458S |s2cid=4399741 |issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free }} She has one daughter.