Nicola Spaldin
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Nicola A. Spaldin FRS |
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| Born | 1969 (age 47–48) Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, U.K. |
| Other names | Nicola A. Hill |
| Citizenship | U.K. |
| Alma mater |
University of Cambridge (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Awards |
James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (2010) Körber European Science Prize (2015) L'Oreal-UNESCO Prize for Women in Science (2017) |
| Website | www |
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ETH Zurich University of California, Santa Barbara Yale University |
| Thesis | Calculating the electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures (1996) |
Nicola Ann Spaldin (born 1969)FRS is Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zurich, known for her pioneering research on multiferroics.
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.
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. 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. Following her theoretical predictions, in 2003 she was part of a team that experimentally demonstrated the multiferroic properties of bismuth ferrite. She moved from UCSB to ETH Zurich in 2010.
Her google scholar page is https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eUfdZowAAAAJ&hl=en
Spaldin was the 2010 winner of the American Physical Society's James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials, the 2015 winner of the Körber European Science Prize for "laying the theoretical foundation for the new family of multiferroic materials". and one of the laureates of the 2017 L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science. Spaldin is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2008), the Materials Research Society (2011) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013), and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.
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