:Silke Bühler-Paschen

Bühler-Paschen studied physics at Graz University of Technology and earned her diploma in 1992. In 1995 she earned her PhD with her thesis titled "Electron transport in polymer composites" at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.{{cite book|url=https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/31843|title=Electron transport in polymer composites|year=1995 |publisher=EPFL|access-date=March 15, 2020}}

Bühler-Paschen worked as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich between 1995 and 1998 and as a group leader at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden starting in 1999, where she also became an assistant professor in 2003.{{cite journal|title=Movers - Silke Bühler-Paschen, professor, Technical University of Vienna|journal=Nature|date=October 20, 2004|volume=431 |issue=7011 |pages=1022 |doi=10.1038/nj7011-1022c |doi-access=free}} In 2005, Bühler-Paschen became the first female full professor of physics at TU Wien, and she became chair of the institute for solid state physics in 2007.{{cite web|url=https://sciencev2.orf.at/stories/1700146/index.html|title=Physikerin, Model, Turnerin|publisher=science.ORF.at|date=August 7, 2012|access-date=March 15, 2020}}

Bühler-Paschen served as visiting professor at Nagoya University in 2001/2002{{cite web|url=https://www.femtech.at/user/11683|title=Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Silke Bühler-Paschen|date=March 10, 2006 |publisher=FEMtech|access-date=March 15, 2020}} and at Rice University in 2016/2017.{{cite web|url=https://rcqm.rice.edu/researchers/silke-buehler-paschen/|title=Silke Buehler-Paschen|access-date=March 15, 2020}}

She served on the ERC Starting Grant peer review panel in Condensed Matter Physics in 2019.{{cite web|url=https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/file/erc_2019_stg_panel_members.pdf|title=ERC Starting Grant Panel 2019 - Members of the ERC Peer Review Panels|access-date=March 15, 2020}}

Bühler-Paschen's research was funded by the European Research Council and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).{{cite web|url=https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/220597078|title=DFG - GEPRIS - Nanostructured Transition-Metal Clathrates and Clathrate-Oxide Nanocomposites|access-date=March 16, 2020}}

She studied complex metallic alloys within an EU-funded "Network of Excellence".{{cite web|url=https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/500140/reporting|title=Final Report Summary - CMA (Complex Metallic Alloys)|access-date=March 18, 2020}}

Bühler-Paschen is on the Low Temperature Section board of Heidelberg University's Condensed Matter Division,{{cite web|url=https://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/eps-lt-section/board|title=Low Temperature Section Board members|access-date=March 16, 2020}} as well as the board of European Forum Alpbach{{cite web|url=https://www.alpbach.org/en/person/silke-buhler-paschen/|title=Dr. Silke Bühler-Paschen - Vorstand, Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Wien|access-date=March 16, 2020}} and the advisory board of the low-temperature research institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.{{cite web|url=https://www.badw.de/en/research-hub/research-projects.html?tx_badwdb_projects%5Bid%5D=25&tx_badwdb_projects%5BcommitteeType%5D=beirat&tx_badwdb_projects%5Baction%5D=show&tx_badwdb_projects%5Bcontroller%5D=BADWCommittee|title=Research projects and institutes - Advisory Board: Walther-Meißner-Institut für Tieftemperaturforschung|access-date=March 30, 2020}}

She was also on the European Physical Society's EPS Condensed Matter Board in 2019.{{cite web|url=https://www.eps.org/members/group_content_view.asp?group=85187&id=779223|title=2019 Composition of the EPS Condensed Matter Board|access-date=March 30, 2020}}

Bühler-Paschen studies new materials, typically by growing high-quality single crystals, which are then characterized for their structure and composition, and whose physical properties are typically measured at low temperatures.{{cite web|url=https://www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentlichungen/publikationen/lise-meitner/sammelmappelml_2019-01-14_web.pdf|title=Lise Meitners Töchter Physikerinnen stellen sich vor|publisher=German Physical Society & Austrian Physical Society|access-date=March 15, 2020}}

Bühler-Paschen's research focuses on strongly correlated and thermoelectric materials.{{Cite journal |last1=Buehler-Paschen |first1=Silke |last2=Pereira Gonçalves |first2=Antonio |last3=Populoh |first3=Sascha |last4=König |first4=Jan D. |date=June 2014 |title=Advanced Thermoelectrics: From Materials to Devices |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pssa.201470240 |journal=Physica Status Solidi A |language=en |volume=211 |issue=6 |pages=1227–1228 |doi=10.1002/pssa.201470240 |issn=1862-6300}} She studies magnetism and superconductivity in heavy fermion systems, as well as materials exhibiting the thermoelectric effect.{{cite web|url=https://www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/organisation/zentrale-services/genderkompetenz/frauenspuren/frauenspuren-heute/professorinnen/silke-buehler-paschen/|title=Silke Bühler-Paschen|date=January 15, 2015|access-date=March 16, 2020}}

During her time in Dresden, Bühler-Paschen's research started to focus on materials with cage-like crystal structures called clathrates with respect to their potential applications as thermoelectrics.

Later, she discovered how the temperature-dependent rattling behavior of caged cerium atoms in such clathrates can stabilize the Kondo effect at unusually high temperatures,{{cite web|url=https://www.k-online.com/en/News/Creating_electricity_with_caged_atoms|title=Creating electricity with caged atoms|date=October 29, 2013|access-date=March 16, 2020}} as well as the first observed collapse of the Kondo effect due to three-dimensional quantum fluctuations.{{cite web|url=https://futurezone.at/science/wie-elektronen-party-feiern/24.574.631|title=Wie Elektronen Party feiern|date=January 8, 2012|access-date=March 16, 2020}}

Bühler-Paschen contributed to the first identification of Weyl fermions in a strongly correlated Weyl-Kondo semimetal.{{cite web|url=https://www.techexplorist.com/particle-like-slow-light/9852/|title=A Particle Like Slow Light|date=December 22, 2017|access-date=March 16, 2020}}

She realized the individual toggling of different electronic degrees of freedom in correlated electron systems.{{cite web|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190822094026.htm|title=Switching electron properties on and off individually|date=August 22, 2019|access-date=March 16, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news2/newsid=53448.php|title=Switching electron properties on and off individually|date=August 22, 2019|access-date=March 30, 2020}}

Bühler-Paschen investigated metallic materials whose electrical resistance exhibits unusual behavior with varying temperatures, which is related to superconductivity and based on quantum-critical charge fluctuations.{{cite web|url=https://scitechdaily.com/direct-evidence-of-entanglements-role-in-quantum-criticality-found-in-strange-metal/|title=Direct Evidence of Entanglement's Role in Quantum Criticality Found in 'Strange Metal'|publisher=SciTechDaily|date=January 16, 2020|access-date=March 16, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.materialstoday.com/electronic-properties/news/turn-and-face-the-strange/|title=Turn and face the strange|publisher=Materials Today|date=January 29, 2020|access-date=March 16, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.innovations-report.com/html/report/materials-science/a-new-look-at-strange-metals.html|title=A new look at 'strange metals'|publisher=innovation report|date=January 21, 2020|access-date=March 16, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://science.apa.at/rubrik/natur_und_technik/Ein_neuer_Blick_auf_seltsame_Metalle/SCI_20200116_SCI39471352452649910|title=Ein neuer Blick auf "seltsame Metalle"|publisher=APA-Science|date=January 16, 2020|access-date=March 16, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/vuot-anl011620.php|title=A new look at 'strange metals'|publisher=EurekAlert! AAAS|date=January 16, 2020|access-date=March 18, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-see-billions-and-billions-of-entangled-electrons-flowing-through-strange-metal|title=Physicists Finally Observe a Link Between Quantum Criticality And Entanglement|date=January 20, 2020|access-date=March 30, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.chemeurope.com/en/news/1164491/a-new-look-at-strange-metals.html|title=A new look at 'strange metals'|date=January 20, 2020|access-date=March 30, 2020}}

• 2009: ERC Advanced Grant{{cite web|url=https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/227378|title=Quantum Criticality - The Puzzle of Multiple Energy Scales|access-date=March 15, 2020}}
• 2015: Fellow of the American Physical Society,{{cite web|url=https://www.tuwien.at/en/research/energy-environment/news/silke-buehler-paschen-wird-fellow-der-aps/|title=Silke Bühler-Paschen wird Fellow der APS|date=October 12, 2015|access-date=March 18, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=B|title=APS Fellow Archive - Initial B|access-date=March 18, 2020}} nominated by the Division of Condensed Matter Physics{{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/units/dcmp/fellowship/index.cfm?year=2015|title= APS Physics - Division of Condensed Matter Physics - APS Fellowship|access-date=March 18, 2020}}

Bühler-Paschen grew up living in Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria.

She practiced gymnastics between the ages of 8 and 18 and was discovered as a model at the age of 14.

She has three children and her husband is also a physicist.

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• {{cite web|url=https://www.ifp.tuwien.ac.at/paschen/|title=Univ. Prof. Dr. Silke Bühler-Paschen|website=Institute of Solid State Physics - TU Wien|access-date=March 15, 2020}}
• {{cite web|url=https://www.academia-net.org/profil/prof-dr-silke-buehler-paschen/1140446|title=Prof. Dr. Silke Bühler-Paschen|website=AcademiaNet|access-date=March 15, 2020}}
• {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqmcneSZhE|title=Austrian physicist Silke Bühler-Paschen studying solid state|publisher=Science: It's a girl thing!|website=YouTube|date=October 29, 2012|access-date=March 15, 2020}}
• {{cite web|url=https://m.fwf.ac.at/fileadmin/files/Dokumente/info-Magazin/Frau_in_der_Wissenschaft/buehler-paschen.pdf|title=Heiße Spur nahe dem absoluten Temperatur-Nullpunkt|publisher=Austrian Science Fund|access-date=March 15, 2020}}

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