Laura Heyderman

She received her BSc degree in chemical physics in 1988, and PhD in physics in 1991 from University of Bristol.{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-heyderman-2a388a36/|title=LinkedIn profile of Laura Heyderman|last=|first=|date=|website=LinkedIn|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}{{Cite web|url=https://mesosys.mat.ethz.ch/people/person_details/lh_details.html|title=Official personal page of Laura Heyderman|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} Her career in magnetism started with her PhD project on magnetic multi-layers that she conducted at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.

After her PhD, she worked on transmission electron microscopy of magnetic materials and observed magnetic domain configurations in a variety of materials as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Glasgow. After working in the industry for four years in the United Kingdom, she became a group leader at the Paul Scherrer Institute in 1999, Professor of Mesoscopic Systems at the Department of Materials, ETH Zurich in 2013 and Head of the Laboratory for Multiscale Materials Experiments at the Paul Scherrer Institute in 2017. She is an author of more than 150 peer-reviewed publications.

She has an expertise in mesoscopic systems, magnetic nanostructures, nanoimprint{{Cite journal|last1=Heyderman|first1=L. J|last2=Schift|first2=H|last3=David|first3=C|last4=Gobrecht|first4=J|last5=Schweizer|first5=T|date=2000-12-01|title=Flow behaviour of thin polymer films used for hot embossing lithography|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167931700004147|journal=Microelectronic Engineering|language=en|volume=54|issue=3|pages=229–245|doi=10.1016/S0167-9317(00)00414-7|issn=0167-9317}}{{Cite journal|last1=Schift|first1=H|last2=Heyderman|first2=L J|last3=Maur|first3=M Auf der|last4=Gobrecht|first4=J|date=2001-05-25|title=Pattern formation in hot embossing of thin polymer films|journal=Nanotechnology|volume=12|issue=2|pages=173–177|doi=10.1088/0957-4484/12/2/321|s2cid=250901287|issn=0957-4484}} and electron beam lithography as well as magnetic thin films and nanostructures.{{Cite journal|last1=Kläui|first1=M.|last2=Vaz|first2=C. A. F.|last3=Bland|first3=J. A. C.|last4=Wernsdorfer|first4=W.|last5=Faini|first5=G.|last6=Cambril|first6=E.|last7=Heyderman|first7=L. J.|last8=Nolting|first8=F.|last9=Rüdiger|first9=U.|date=2005-03-15|title=Controlled and Reproducible Domain Wall Displacement by Current Pulses Injected into Ferromagnetic Ring Structures|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=94|issue=10|page=106601|doi=10.1103/physrevlett.94.106601|pmid=15783502|s2cid=15119450 |issn=0031-9007|url=https://www.dora.lib4ri.ch/psi/islandora/object/psi%3A13275}}{{Cite journal|last1=Heyderman|first1=L. J.|last2=Nolting|first2=F.|last3=Backes|first3=D.|last4=Czekaj|first4=S.|last5=Lopez-Diaz|first5=L.|last6=Kläui|first6=M.|last7=Rüdiger|first7=U.|last8=Vaz|first8=C. A. F.|last9=Bland|first9=J. A. C.|last10=Matelon|first10=R. J.|last11=Volkmann|first11=U. G.|date=2006-06-15|title=Magnetization reversal in cobalt antidot arrays|journal=Physical Review B|volume=73|issue=21|pages=214429|doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.73.214429|s2cid=18765017 |url=https://www.dora.lib4ri.ch/psi/islandora/object/psi%3A16521}}{{Cite journal|last1=Jia|first1=Chun-Jiang|last2=Sun|first2=Ling-Dong|last3=Luo|first3=Feng|last4=Han|first4=Xiao-Dong|last5=Heyderman|first5=Laura J.|last6=Yan|first6=Zheng-Guang|last7=Yan|first7=Chun-Hua|last8=Zheng|first8=Kun|last9=Zhang|first9=Ze|last10=Takano|first10=Mikio|last11=Hayashi|first11=Naoaki|date=2008-12-17|title=Large-Scale Synthesis of Single-Crystalline Iron Oxide Magnetic Nanorings|journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society|language=en|volume=130|issue=50|pages=16968–16977|doi=10.1021/ja805152t|pmid=19053430|issn=0002-7863|url=http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-125756}} Her research in the field of artificial spin ices consisting of interacting nanomagnets{{Cite journal|last1=Mengotti|first1=Elena|last2=Heyderman|first2=Laura J.|last3=Rodríguez|first3=Arantxa Fraile|last4=Nolting|first4=Frithjof|last5=Hügli|first5=Remo V.|last6=Braun|first6=Hans-Benjamin|date=January 2011|title=Real-space observation of emergent magnetic monopoles and associated Dirac strings in artificial kagome spin ice|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys1794|journal=Nature Physics|language=en|volume=7|issue=1|pages=68–74|doi=10.1038/nphys1794|issn=1745-2481}}{{Cite journal|last1=Farhan|first1=A.|last2=Derlet|first2=P. M.|last3=Kleibert|first3=A.|last4=Balan|first4=A.|last5=Chopdekar|first5=R. V.|last6=Wyss|first6=M.|last7=Anghinolfi|first7=L.|last8=Nolting|first8=F.|last9=Heyderman|first9=L. J.|date=2013-05-05|title=Exploring hyper-cubic energy landscapes in thermally active finite artificial spin-ice systems|journal=Nature Physics|volume=9|issue=6|pages=375–382|doi=10.1038/nphys2613|s2cid=123384647 |issn=1745-2473}}{{Cite journal|last1=Farhan|first1=A.|last2=Derlet|first2=P. M.|last3=Kleibert|first3=A.|last4=Balan|first4=A.|last5=Chopdekar|first5=R. V.|last6=Wyss|first6=M.|last7=Perron|first7=J.|last8=Scholl|first8=A.|last9=Nolting|first9=F.|last10=Heyderman|first10=L. J.|date=2013-08-02|title=Direct Observation of Thermal Relaxation in Artificial Spin Ice|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=111|issue=5|page=057204|doi=10.1103/physrevlett.111.057204|pmid=23952441|issn=0031-9007|url=https://www.dora.lib4ri.ch/psi/islandora/object/psi%3A10736}}{{Cite journal|last1=Anghinolfi|first1=L.|last2=Luetkens|first2=H.|last3=Perron|first3=J.|last4=Flokstra|first4=M. G.|last5=Sendetskyi|first5=O.|last6=Suter|first6=A.|last7=Prokscha|first7=T.|last8=Derlet|first8=P. M.|last9=Lee|first9=S. L.|last10=Heyderman|first10=L. J.|date=November 2015|title=Thermodynamic phase transitions in a frustrated magnetic metamaterial|journal=Nature Communications|language=en|volume=6|issue=1|pages=8278|doi=10.1038/ncomms9278|issn=2041-1723|pmc=4595626|pmid=26387444}} has attracted a significant interest. Her current research also includes the observation of three-dimensional magnetization structures with synchrotron X-ray tomography,{{Cite journal|last1=Donnelly|first1=Claire|last2=Guizar-Sicairos|first2=Manuel|last3=Scagnoli|first3=Valerio|last4=Gliga|first4=Sebastian|last5=Holler|first5=Mirko|last6=Raabe|first6=Jörg|last7=Heyderman|first7=Laura J.|date=July 2017|title=Three-dimensional magnetization structures revealed with X-ray vector nanotomography|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23006|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=547|issue=7663|pages=328–331|doi=10.1038/nature23006|pmid=28726832|s2cid=205257620|issn=1476-4687}} chirally coupled nanomagnets{{Cite journal|last1=Luo|first1=Zhaochu|last2=Dao|first2=Trong Phuong|last3=Hrabec|first3=Aleš|last4=Vijayakumar|first4=Jaianth|last5=Kleibert|first5=Armin|last6=Baumgartner|first6=Manuel|last7=Kirk|first7=Eugenie|last8=Cui|first8=Jizhai|last9=Savchenko|first9=Tatiana|last10=Krishnaswamy|first10=Gunasheel|last11=Heyderman|first11=Laura J.|date=2019-03-29|title=Chirally coupled nanomagnets|journal=Science|language=en|volume=363|issue=6434|pages=1435–1439|doi=10.1126/science.aau7913|pmid=30923219|s2cid=85564169|issn=0036-8075|url=https://www.dora.lib4ri.ch/psi/islandora/object/psi%3A21012|doi-access=free}} and using nanomagnets for intelligent micro/nano robots.{{Cite journal|last1=Cui|first1=Jizhai|last2=Huang|first2=Tian-Yun|last3=Luo|first3=Zhaochu|last4=Testa|first4=Paolo|last5=Gu|first5=Hongri|last6=Chen|first6=Xiang-Zhong|last7=Nelson|first7=Bradley J.|last8=Heyderman|first8=Laura J.|date=November 2019|title=Nanomagnetic encoding of shape-morphing micromachines|url=http://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1713-2|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=575|issue=7781|pages=164–168|doi=10.1038/s41586-019-1713-2|pmid=31695212|s2cid=207914645|issn=0028-0836|hdl=20.500.11850/377799|hdl-access=free}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-researchers-lay-foundations-for-smart-microrobots-/45357556|title=Swiss researchers lay foundations for smart microrobots|last1=swissinfo.ch|first1=S. W. I.|last2=Corporation|first2=a branch of the Swiss Broadcasting|website=SWI swissinfo.ch|language=en|access-date=2020-04-05}}{{Cite news|last=Helga Rietz|url=https://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/mikroroboter-von-psi-und-ethz-koennten-medizin-und-technik-voranbringen-ld.1520402|title=Mit dem Nanovogel durch die Blutbahn segeln {{!}} NZZ|work=Neue Zürcher Zeitung|access-date=2020-04-05|language=de}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/media-releases.msg-id-76964.html|title=On the way to intelligent microrobots|last=The Federal Council|website=www.admin.ch|language=en|access-date=2020-04-05}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.psi.ch/en/media/our-research/on-the-way-to-intelligent-microrobots|title=On the way to intelligent microrobots|date=2019-11-06|website=Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)|language=en|access-date=2020-04-05}}

She is a member of German Physical Society and fellow of the American Physical Society, of the IEEE, and of the UK Institute of Physics. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023.{{Cite web |title=Laura Heyderman |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/laura-heyderman-36216/ |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=royalsociety.org}}

• 2016: Beller Lectureship at the APS March Meeting 2016, Baltimore, US
• 2015: Wohlfarth Prize Lecture at UK Magnetism 2015 Meeting

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