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Nicola Spaldin studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, obtaining a B.A. in 1991. She then moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her PhD in Chemistry in 1996. Following this, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Applied Physics Department at Yale University before returning to California to join UC Santa Barbara as an Assistant Professor in 1997. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2002, and then to Full Professor in 2006, staying until 2010 when she moved to ETH Zurich as a Professor and Chair of Materials Theory. Spaldin has held visiting professorships at various prestigious institutions, including the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, the Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge University, and the Materials Theory Division at Uppsala University. Her research focuses on Materials Theory, specifically the physics of novel materials that hold potential technological importance, contributing to the development of new theoretical methods and the design of new materials with specific functionalities. She has a particular interest in magnetoelectric multiferroics and transition-metal oxides. Spaldin has received numerous awards for her contributions to the field, including the ETH Zurich Golden Owl Award for Teaching Excellence, Europhysics Prize, and several fellowships from prestigious societies, reflecting her impact on materials science.
UC Berkeley, Department of Physics • Berkeley, CA, USA
ETH Zürich, Department of Materials • Zürich, Switzerland
Uppsala University, Department of Materials Physics • Uppsala, Sweden
UC Berkeley, Department of Materials Science and Engineering • Berkeley, CA, USA
University of California, Santa Barbara, Materials Department • Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Cambridge University, Department of Earth Sciences • Cambridge, UK
University of California, Santa Barbara, Materials Department • Santa Barbara, CA, USA
University of California, Santa Barbara, Materials Department • Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Yale University, Applied Physics Department • New Haven, CT, USA
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