Biography

Claudia Felser Claudia Felser studied chemistry and physics at the University of Cologne (Germany) and completed her doctorate in physical chemistry in 1994. After postdoctoral fellowships at the MPI in Stuttgart and the CNRS in Nantes (France), she joined the University of Mainz and became a Full Professor at the same University in 2003. In 2011, she became director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden (Germany).She is the chair of the DFG research group “New Materials with High Spin Polarization” and was the director of the Graduate School of Excellence “Materials Science in Mainz” of the German Science Foundation (DFG) from 2007-2012.
She was honored as the distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Magnetic Society and in 2011 she received an ERC Advanced grant. She won the Nakamura lecture award of the UC Santa Barbara, the 2014-Alexander M.Cruickshank Lecturer Award of the Gordon Research Conference and received the SUR-grant Award of IBM. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics, London. In 2014 she received the Tsungmin Tu Research Prize (75 000$) by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan, the highest academic honor granted to foreign researchers in Taiwan.
Professor Felser has written more than 250 articles and been granted several patents. Her recent research focuses on the rational design of new materials for spintronics and energy technologies such as solar cells, thermoelectric materials, topological insulators and superconductors.