Dr. Sandrine Heutz

Biography

Sandrine Heutz is a professor in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. She joined the department as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow on January 1, 2007. Sandrine completed her undergraduate degree in Chemistry at the University of Liege, Belgium, in 1998, and earned her PhD from Imperial College in 2002 with a thesis on the structural, spectroscopic, and morphological properties of molecular thin film heterostructures, focusing on phthalocyanine and perylene materials. During her PhD, she was awarded the Marie Curie training site fellowship, which enabled her to work at TU-Chemnitz in Germany under Professor Zahn. Postdoctoral research included work on molecular photovoltaic cells at Imperial College. In 2004, she moved to the Department of Physics and the London Centre for Nanotechnology at University College London to begin a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship on Molecular Magnetic Biosensors. In 2008, she received the IOM3 Silver Medal and has represented the UK on the Materials Science Engineering Expert Committee for the European Science Foundation. Currently, she chairs the Physical Science Strategic Advisory Group for EPSRC and is an academic champion for the SPIN-Lab. In April 2020, she became co-director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology and co-director of the CNRS - Imperial IRC for Transformational Science and Technology. As of October 2022, she is the head of the Department of Materials, focusing on research in optoelectronic and magnetic quantum properties of molecular thin films, spintronic applications, and fabrication methods of oxides.

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