ICFO Distinguished Invited Professor

Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser, director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, is a solid state chemist and materials scientist, known for her work on Heusler compounds and related filled tetrahedral structure types, and the design, synthesis and physical investigation of new quantum materials. Her most recent research focuses on new materials for quantum technologies such as topological insulators, Weyl and Dirac semimetals, skyrmions, superconductors, new fermions, and new quasiparticles.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Felser has recently been appointed ICFO Distinguished Invited Professor (DIP). Through this position, she will participate in research activities related to TWIST, a new macro-program at ICFO which has received funding from the Ministry of Science and innovation of Spain. Within this ambitious research program, she, along with ICREA Prof. at ICFO Dr. Frank Koppens, and MIT Professor and DIP at ICFO Dr. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, will lead frontier research in twisted materials to study their fundamental properties and their potential future applications in nano-optoelectronics. A unique board of renowned scientists, including ICFOnians Prof. Dr. Adrian Bachtold and Dr. Carmen Rubio-Verdú, together with global leaders from Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Princeton, Pisa and the Weizmann Institute, will also bring their expertise to the TWIST program.

Welcome Prof. Felser!