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Heike Pfau is an Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University in the Department of Physics. Her research is primarily focused on materials with strong electronic correlations, where she aims to develop novel phenomena and understand unconventional electronic phases such as heavy fermion behavior, unconventional superconductivity, nematicity, and quantum criticality. Using techniques like angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), low-temperature transport, and thermodynamic probes, Pfau investigates emergent collective phenomena in correlated materials, particularly those containing transition metal and rare-earth elements, as well as heavy fermion systems and iron-based superconductors. Pfau has a robust academic background, having completed a Ph.D. in Physics at the Technical University of Dresden and the Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids. She has been a postdoctoral researcher at various prestigious institutions including Stanford University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She has received several awards for her research contributions, including the DFG Research Fellowship from the German Science Foundation and the Otto-Hahn Medal from the Max-Planck Society.
Pennsylvania State University • University Park, PA, USA
Faculty position focused on research in the Department of Physics.
Stanford University SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory • Stanford, CA, USA
Conducting advanced research in condensed matter physics.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory • Berkeley, CA, USA
Engaged in research focusing on materials with strong electronic correlations.
Stanford University SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory • Stanford, CA, USA
Worked on research projects involving unconventional superconductivity.
Max-Planck Institute Chemical Physics of Solids • Dresden, Germany
Assisted in research on physical properties of solid materials.
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