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Andrea Hofmann received Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Physics from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. Afterward, she took a break to work as a research intern at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland, where she received a scholarship to pursue her Master's thesis work in the group of Mark Sherwin at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She subsequently joined the groups of Klaus Ensslin and Thomas Ihn at ETH to pursue her PhD, completing it in 2017, and was awarded the ETH medal and the Swiss Physical Society prize related to metrology. From 2018 to 2020, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria and successfully applied for a competitive Marie Curie Individual Fellowship. She then worked for a year as a Risk Modeller at Swiss Reinsurance Company. In 2021, she was appointed as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Basel. Her research group performs transport measurements on semiconductor devices at cryogenic temperatures to study various physical phenomena, including spin-orbit interaction, heavy-hole light-hole mixing, the proximization of semiconductors with superconductors, the quantum Hall effect, and thermodynamics.
Paul Scherrer Institute • Switzerland
Worked as a research intern.
Institute of Science and Technology Austria • Austria
Conducted research in various fields.
Swiss Reinsurance Company • Switzerland
Worked as a risk modeller.
University of Basel • Switzerland
Appointed as a tenure track assistant professor in the Department of Physics.
The University of Basel generally requires C1 level proficiency in the language of instruction. For most English-taught Masters, TOEFL (min 92-95) or IELTS (min 7.0) is the standard.