Nicola Spaldin

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| birth_place = Sunderland, UK

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| caption = Nicola Spaldin at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2017

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Multiferroics{{cite journal|last1=Spaldin|first1=Nicola Ann|title=Materials Science: The Renaissance of Magnetoelectric Multiferroics|journal=Science|volume=309|issue=5733|year=2005|pages=391–392|issn=0036-8075|doi=10.1126/science.1113357|pmid= 16020720|s2cid=118513837}} {{subscription required}}
Materials Theory
Strongly Correlated Materials}}

| workplaces = ETH Zurich
University of California, Santa Barbara
Yale University

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| alma_mater = University of Cambridge (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)

| thesis_title = Calculating the electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures

| thesis_url = http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b14192569

| thesis_year = 1996

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| awards = James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (2010)
Rössler Prize (2012)
Körber European Science Prize (2015)
L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award (2017)
Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist (2019){{Cite web|url=https://marcel-benoist.ch/en/|title = Marcel Benoist Foundation – Swiss Science Prize}}
IUPAP Magnetism Prize and Néel Medal (2021)
Europhysics Prize (2022)
Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics (2022)
Gothenburg Physics Centre Lise Meitner Award (2023)
CNRS Fellow-Ambassadeur (2024)
Doctor of Science (honoris causa), Queens University, Belfast (2024)

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Nicola Ann Spaldin (born 1969)Nicola Spaldin's {{ORCID|0000-0003-0709-9499}} FRS is professor of materials science at ETH Zurich, known for her pioneering research on multiferroics.{{cite book|last1=Spaldin|first1=Nicola A.|title=Magnetic materials: fundamentals and device applications|date=2003|oclc=935635324|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=9780521016582}}{{Google scholar id}}{{EuropePMC|ORCID=0000-0003-0709-9499}}{{Scopus id}}{{Cite journal|last1=Wang|first1=J.|last2=Neaton|first2=J. B.|last3=Zheng|first3=H.|last4=Nagarajan|first4=V.|last5=Ogale|first5=S. B.|last6=Liu|first6=B.|last7=Viehland|first7=D.|last8=Vaithyanathan|first8=V.|last9=Schlom|first9=D. G.|year=2003|title=Epitaxial BiFeO₃ Multiferroic Thin Film Heterostructures|journal=Science|language=en|volume=299|issue=5613|pages=1719–1722|doi=10.1126/science.1080615|issn=0036-8075|pmid=12637741|bibcode=2003Sci...299.1719W|hdl=10220/7391|s2cid=4789558|hdl-access=free}} {{subscription required}}{{Cite journal|last1=Ramesh|first1=R.|last2=Spaldin|first2=Nicola A.|year=2007|title=Multiferroics: progress and prospects in thin films|journal=Nature Materials|volume=6|issue=1|pages=21–29|doi=10.1038/nmat1805|pmid=17199122|bibcode=2007NatMa...6...21R}} {{subscription required}}

Education and early life

A native of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, Spaldin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1991, and a PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996.{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Nicola Ann|last=Hill |title= Calculating the electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures |website=oskicat.berkeley.edu |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |year=1996 |url=http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b14192569 |oclc=36371687 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.theory.mat.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.html?persid=177264|title=Nicola Spaldin Curriculum vitae|website=ethz.ch|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323233412/http://www.theory.mat.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.html?persid=177264|archive-date=23 March 2017|df=dmy-all}} retrieved 2015-06-16.

Career and research

Spaldin was inspired to search for multiferroics, magnetic ferroelectric materials, by a remark about potential collaboration made by a colleague studying ferroelectrics during her postdoctoral research studying magnetic phenomena at Yale University from 1996 to 1997.{{cite arXiv|last=Spaldin|first=Nicola A.|date=2017-08-03|title=Fundamental Materials Research and the Course of Human Civilization|eprint=1708.01325|class=cond-mat.mtrl-sci}} She continued to develop the theory of these materials as a new faculty member at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and in 2000 published (under her previous name, Hill) "a seminal article" that for the first time explained why few such materials were known.{{Cite journal|last=Hill|first=Nicola Ann|year=2000|title=Why Are There so Few Magnetic Ferroelectrics?|journal=Journal of Physical Chemistry B|volume=104|issue=29|pages=6694–6709|doi=10.1021/jp000114x|issn=1520-6106}} {{subscription required}} Following her theoretical predictions, in 2003 she was part of a team that experimentally demonstrated the multiferroic properties of bismuth ferrite, BiFeO₃. Over the next years she was involved in a number of developments in the rapidly emerging field of multiferroics, including the first demonstration of electric-field control of magnetism in BiFeO₃{{Cite journal |last1=Zhao |first1=T. |last2=Scholl |first2=A. |last3=Zavaliche |first3=F. |last4=Lee |first4=K. |last5=Barry |first5=M. |last6=Doran |first6=A. |last7=Cruz |first7=M. P. |last8=Chu |first8=Y. H. |last9=Ederer |first9=C. |last10=Spaldin |first10=N. A. |last11=Das |first11=R. R. |last12=Kim |first12=D. M. |last13=Baek |first13=S. H. |last14=Eom |first14=C. B. |last15=Ramesh |first15=R. |date=2006 |title=Electrical control of antiferromagnetic domains in multiferroic BiFeO3 films at room temperature |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat1731 |journal=Nature Materials |language=en |volume=5 |issue=10 |pages=823–829 |doi=10.1038/nmat1731 |pmid=16951676 |issn=1476-4660|url-access=subscription }} (selected by Science magazine as one of their "[https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.318.5858.1848 Areas to watch" in their 2007 Breakthroughs of the Year section]), the discovery of conducting ferroelectric domain walls{{Cite journal |last1=Seidel |first1=J. |last2=Martin |first2=L. W. |last3=He |first3=Q. |last4=Zhan |first4=Q. |last5=Chu |first5=Y.-H. |last6=Rother |first6=A. |last7=Hawkridge |first7=M. E. |last8=Maksymovych |first8=P. |last9=Yu |first9=P. |last10=Gajek |first10=M. |last11=Balke |first11=N. |last12=Kalinin |first12=S. V. |last13=Gemming |first13=S. |last14=Wang |first14=F. |last15=Catalan |first15=G. |date=2009 |title=Conduction at domain walls in oxide multiferroics |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat2373 |journal=Nature Materials |language=en |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=229–234 |doi=10.1038/nmat2373 |pmid=19169247 |bibcode=2009NatMa...8..229S |issn=1476-4660|url-access=subscription }} and a strain-driven morphotropic phase boundary,{{Cite journal |last1=Zeches |first1=R. J. |last2=Rossell |first2=M. D. |last3=Zhang |first3=J. X. |last4=Hatt |first4=A. J. |last5=He |first5=Q. |last6=Yang |first6=C.-H. |last7=Kumar |first7=A. |last8=Wang |first8=C. H. |last9=Melville |first9=A. |last10=Adamo |first10=C. |last11=Sheng |first11=G. |last12=Chu |first12=Y.-H. |last13=Ihlefeld |first13=J. F. |last14=Erni |first14=R. |last15=Ederer |first15=C. |date=2009-11-13 |title=A Strain-Driven Morphotropic Phase Boundary in BiFeO3 |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1177046 |journal=Science |volume=326 |issue=5955 |pages=977–980 |doi=10.1126/science.1177046|pmid=19965507 |url-access=subscription }} again in BiFeO₃, and the identification of new mechanisms for multiferroicity, for example the improper geometric ferroelectricity in YMnO₃.{{Cite journal |last1=Van Aken |first1=Bas B. |last2=Palstra |first2=Thomas T. M. |last3=Filippetti |first3=Alessio |last4=Spaldin |first4=Nicola A. |date=2004 |title=The origin of ferroelectricity in magnetoelectric YMnO3 |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat1080 |journal=Nature Materials |language=en |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=164–170 |doi=10.1038/nmat1080 |pmid=14991018 |issn=1476-4660}} In the same time period, she developed and implemented methodology to allow application of finite electric and magnetic fields to metal-insulator heterostructures within the density functional theory formalism,{{Cite journal |last=Stengel |first=Massimiliano |date=2007 |title=Ab initio theory of metal-insulator interfaces in a finite electric field |url=https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.75.205121 |journal=Physical Review B |volume=75 |issue=20 |page=205121 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.75.205121|arxiv=cond-mat/0511042 |bibcode=2007PhRvB..75t5121S }} allowing her to solve the long-standing problem of the origin of the dielectric dead layer in capacitors{{Cite journal |last1=Stengel |first1=Massimiliano |last2=Spaldin |first2=Nicola A. |date=2006 |title=Origin of the dielectric dead layer in nanoscale capacitors |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05148 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=443 |issue=7112 |pages=679–682 |doi=10.1038/nature05148 |pmid=17036000 |bibcode=2006Natur.443..679S |issn=1476-4687|url-access=subscription }} and to identify previously unknown routes to magnetoelectric coupling.{{Cite journal |last1=Rondinelli |first1=James M. |last2=Stengel |first2=Massimiliano |last3=Spaldin |first3=Nicola A. |date=2008 |title=Carrier-mediated magnetoelectricity in complex oxide heterostructures |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nnano.2007.412 |journal=Nature Nanotechnology |language=en |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=46–50 |doi=10.1038/nnano.2007.412 |pmid=18654450 |arxiv=0706.2199 |bibcode=2008NatNa...3...46R |issn=1748-3395}}

Spaldin moved from UCSB to ETH Zurich in 2010. Since then, three particular new directions stand out in her research portfolio. One is the development of the concept and formalism of magnetic multipoles, which require a theory of magnetism beyond the usual magnetic-dipole level. In addition to their importance for magnetoelectric coupling,{{Cite journal |last=Spaldin |first=Nicola A. |date=2013 |title=Monopole-based formalism for the diagonal magnetoelectric response |url=https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.094429 |journal=Physical Review B |volume=88 |issue=9 |page=094429 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.88.094429|arxiv=1306.5396 |bibcode=2013PhRvB..88i4429S }} these have proved relevant for understanding the occurrence of magnetism at the surfaces of compensated antiferromagnets{{Cite journal |last=Weber |first=Sophie F. |date=2024 |title=Surface Magnetization in Antiferromagnets: Classification, Example Materials, and Relation to Magnetoelectric Responses |url=https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.021033 |journal=Physical Review X |volume=14 |issue=2 |page=021033 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevX.14.021033|arxiv=2306.06631 |bibcode=2024PhRvX..14b1033W }} as well as for characterizing phenomena as diverse as altermagnetism{{Cite journal |last=Bhowal |first=Sayantika |date=2024 |title=Ferroically Ordered Magnetic Octupoles in d-Wave Altermagnets |url=https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.011019 |journal=Physical Review X |volume=14 |issue=1 |page=011019 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevX.14.011019|bibcode=2024PhRvX..14a1019B |hdl=20.500.11850/661671 |hdl-access=free |arxiv=2212.03756 }} and magnetic skyrmions.{{Cite journal |last=Bhowal |first=Sayantika |date=2022 |title=Magnetoelectric Classification of Skyrmions |url=https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.227204 |journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=128 |issue=22 |page=227204 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.227204|pmid=35714233 |arxiv=2201.01667 |bibcode=2022PhRvL.128v7204B }} Second, the establishment of Dynamical Multiferroicity,{{Cite journal |last=Juraschek |first=Dominik M. |date=2017 |title=Dynamical multiferroicity |url=https://journals.aps.org/prmaterials/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.1.014401 |journal=Physical Review Materials |volume=1 |issue=1 |page=014401 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.1.014401|arxiv=1612.06331 |bibcode=2017PhRvM...1a4401J }} which spawned interest in so-called chiral phonons and their associated magnetic moments.{{Cite journal |last=Juraschek |first=Dominik M. |date=2019 |title=Orbital magnetic moments of phonons |url=https://journals.aps.org/prmaterials/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.064405 |journal=Physical Review Materials |volume=3 |issue=6 |page=064405 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.064405|arxiv=1812.05379 |bibcode=2019PhRvM...3f4405J }} And third, the unexpected application of multiferroics in other more fundamental branches of physics: She designed a new multiferroic with the precise specifications required to allow a solid-state search for the electric dipole moment of the electron{{Cite journal |last1=Rushchanskii |first1=K. Z. |last2=Kamba |first2=S. |last3=Goian |first3=V. |last4=Vaněk |first4=P. |last5=Savinov |first5=M. |last6=Prokleška |first6=J. |last7=Nuzhnyy |first7=D. |last8=Knížek |first8=K. |last9=Laufek |first9=F. |last10=Eckel |first10=S. |last11=Lamoreaux |first11=S. K. |last12=Sushkov |first12=A. O. |last13=Ležaić |first13=M. |last14=Spaldin |first14=N. A. |date=2010 |title=A multiferroic material to search for the permanent electric dipole moment of the electron |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat2799 |journal=Nature Materials |language=en |volume=9 |issue=8 |pages=649–654 |doi=10.1038/nmat2799 |pmid=20639893 |arxiv=1002.0376 |bibcode=2010NatMa...9..649R |issn=1476-4660}} and identified a multiferroic with a symmetry-lowering phase trainsition that generates the crystallographic equivalent of cosmic strings.{{Cite journal |last=Meier |first=Q. N. |date=2017 |title=Global Formation of Topological Defects in the Multiferroic Hexagonal Manganites |url=https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.7.041014 |journal=Physical Review X |volume=7 |issue=4 |page=041014 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevX.7.041014|arxiv=1703.08321 |bibcode=2017PhRvX...7d1014M }} These "cross-over" projects led to a current interest in dark-matter direct detection.

Her publications are listed on Google scholar.

=Awards and honours=

Spaldin was the 2010 winner of the American Physical Society's James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials,{{cite web|url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Spaldin&first_nm=Nicola&year=2010|title=2010 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials Recipient: Nicola A. Spaldin|publisher=American Physical Society|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721011155/http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Spaldin&first_nm=Nicola&year=2010|archive-date=21 July 2015|df=dmy-all}} . Retrieved 2015-07-16. the winner of the Rössler Prize of the ETH Zurich Foundation in 2012,{{Cite web |title=Rössler Prize • ETH Zürich Foundation |url=https://ethz-foundation.ch/en/roessler-prize/ |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=ETH Zürich Foundation |language=en-US}} the 2015 winner of the Körber European Science Prize for "laying the theoretical foundation for the new family of multiferroic materials"{{citation|title=Multiferroics and me|department=In Person|journal=Science|first=Nicola|last=Spaldin|year=2015|doi=10.1126/science.caredit.a1500156}}.{{cite web |url=http://www.koerber-stiftung.de/en/science/aktuelles/news-details-science/artikel/nicola-spaldin-to-receive-the-2015-koerber-prize.html |title=Nicola Spaldin to receive the 2015 Körber Prize |website=koerber-stiftung.de |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721015915/http://www.koerber-stiftung.de/en/science/aktuelles/news-details-science/artikel/nicola-spaldin-to-receive-the-2015-koerber-prize.html |archive-date=2015-07-21 }} retrieved 2015-07-16 and one of the laureates of the 2017 L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science.{{cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/announcement_of_laureates_of_2017_loreal_unesco_for_wome/|publisher=UNESCO|title=Announcement of Laureates of 2017 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005124814/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/announcement_of_laureates_of_2017_loreal_unesco_for_wome/|archive-date=5 October 2016|df=dmy-all}} In November 2017 she was awarded the Lise-Meitner Lectureship of the Austrian and German Physical Societies in Vienna{{Cite web|url=https://physik.univie.ac.at/en/news/news-detail/news/lise-meitner-lecture-nicola-spaldin-new-materials-for-a-new-age/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=8a664115086c5c0d23b7edecce3b6402|title=Lise Meitner Lecture - Nicola Spaldin: New Materials for a New Age|website=physik.univie.ac.at|language=en|access-date=2019-09-10}}{{Citation|title=Lise-Meitner-Lecture 2018 - Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Nicola Spaldin| date=10 April 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTrcPWNzRyE|language=en|access-date=2019-09-10}} and in 2019 she won the Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist.{{Cite web|url=https://marcel-benoist.ch/en/|title = Marcel Benoist Foundation – Swiss Science Prize}}{{Cite web |title=Rössler laureate awarded Science Prize Marcel Benoist • ETH Zürich Foundation |url=https://ethz-foundation.ch/en/spotlight/news-2019-nicola-spaldin/ |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=ETH Zürich Foundation |language=en-US}} In 2021 she received the IUPAP Magnetism Award and Néel Medal,{{Cite web |title=Commission C9 has announced the recipients of the 2021 IUPAP Magnetism Award and Néel Medal |date=10 May 2021 |url=https://iupap.org/2021/05/10/commission-c9-has-announced-the-recipients-of-the-2021-iupap-magnetism-award-and-neel-medal-and-of-the-iupap-young-scientist-prize-in-the-field-of-magnetism/}} and in 2022 the Europhysics Prize of the European Physical Society{{Cite web |title=CMD Europhysics Prize |url=https://www.eps.org/members/group_content_view.asp?group=85187&id=554142}} and the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics.{{Cite web |title=Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics |url=https://www.joachim-herz-stiftung.de/en/what-we-do/projects-for-understanding-science/international-research/hamburg-prize-for-theoretical-physics/ |access-date=11 July 2022 |archive-date=8 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308114105/https://www.joachim-herz-stiftung.de/en/what-we-do/projects-for-understanding-science/international-research/hamburg-prize-for-theoretical-physics/ |url-status=dead }} In 2023, she won the Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award.{{Cite web |date=2023-09-08 |title=Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award 2023 Symposium {{!}} University of Gothenburg |url=https://www.gu.se/en/event/gothenburg-lise-meitner-award-2023-symposium |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=www.gu.se |language=en}}

Spaldin is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2008), the Materials Research Society (2011), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013) and the Royal Society (2017),{{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/nicola-spaldin-13424/ |title=Professor Nicola Spaldin FRS |publisher=royalsociety.org |author=Anon |year=2017 |access-date=2017-05-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523130459/https://royalsociety.org/people/nicola-spaldin-13424/ |archive-date=23 May 2017 |df=dmy-all }} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{blockquote|"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License" --{{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies |access-date=2016-03-09 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111170346/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |archive-date=2016-11-11 }}}} an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and a member of Academia Europaea (2021){{cite web |title=Nicola Spaldin |url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Spaldin_Nicola |access-date=2022-03-12 |work=Members |publisher=Academia Europaea}} and the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (2021).{{Cite web |title=Members: SATW |date=5 March 2024 |url=https://www.satw.ch/en/ueber-satw/members}} She is a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering (2019),{{cite web|title=National Academy of Engineering Elects 86 Members and 18 Foreign Members |url=https://www.nae.edu/204037.aspx|publisher=National Academy of Engineering|access-date=11 February 2019}} the French Academy of Sciences (2021), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2022) and the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina (2022).{{Cite web |title=Mitglieder |url=https://www.leopoldina.org/mitglieder/}} She is an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society{{Cite web |title=External Members |url=https://www.cpfs.mpg.de/en/organisation/fellow}} and a Fellow-Ambassadeur of the CNRS.{{Cite web |title=Fellows-ambassadeurs du CNRS: la seconde promotion dévoilée |date=8 March 2024 |url=https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite/fellows-ambassadeurs-du-cnrs-la-seconde-promotion-devoilee}}

= Service =

Spaldin is a member of the ERC Scientific Council{{Cite web |title=ERC President and Scientific Council |url=https://erc.europa.eu/about-erc/erc-president-and-scientific-council}} and a founding Lead Editor of Physical Review Research.{{cite news |title=Nicola Spaldin Selected as Lead Editor of *Physical Review Research* |url=https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/edannounce/nicola-spaldin-selected-as-lead-editor-of-physical-review-research |website=Physical Review Research |access-date=17 May 2019 |date=30 April 2019}}

= Teaching =

Spaldin has twice received the ETH Golden Owl for Teaching Excellence{{Cite web |title=Golden Owl of the VSETH ETH Zürich |url=https://ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/education/awards/golden-owl.html}} as well as the ETH Award for Best Teaching.{{Cite web |title=Award for Best Teaching |url=https://ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/education/awards/credit-suisse-award-for-best-teaching.html |archive-url=}} Some of her lectures are available on her youtube channel.{{Cite web |title=Nicola Spaldin's youtube Channel |website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/@nicolaspaldin2446}} She coordinated the revision of her Department's BSc Curriculum in Materials and documented it in a [http://occamstypewriter.org/nicolaspaldin/author/nicola/ blog.] Her textbook on Magnetic Materials is published by Cambridge University Press.{{Cite book |title=Magnetic Materials |year=2010 |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511781599 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/magnetic-materials/4C8C2C5DF32C9E8D528E1E8D26381C1F|last1=Spaldin |first1=Nicola A. |isbn=9780521886697 }}