Laura Jane Heyderman FRS is a physicist, materials scientist, academic and Professor of Mesoscopic Systems at the Department of Materials, ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute. Her research is focused on magnetism and magnetic materials.[1][2]

Laura Heyderman
Born
Laura Jane Heyderman
Scientific career
InstitutionsETH Zurich

Education and early life edit

She received her BSc degree in chemical physics in 1988, and PhD in physics in 1991 from University of Bristol.[3][4] Her career in magnetism started with her PhD project on magnetic multi-layers that she conducted at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.[4]

Career and research edit

After her PhD, she worked on transmission electron microscopy of magnetic materials and observed magnetic domain configurations in a variety of materials as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Glasgow. After working in the industry for four years in the United Kingdom, she became a group leader at the Paul Scherrer Institute in 1999, Professor of Mesoscopic Systems at the Department of Materials, ETH Zurich in 2013 and Head of the Laboratory for Multiscale Materials Experiments at the Paul Scherrer Institute in 2017. She is an author of more than 150 peer-reviewed publications.[2]

She has an expertise in mesoscopic systems, magnetic nanostructures, nanoimprint[5][6] and electron beam lithography as well as magnetic thin films and nanostructures.[7][8][9] Her research in the field of artificial spin ices consisting of interacting nanomagnets[10][11][12][13] has attracted a significant interest. Her current research also includes the observation of three-dimensional magnetization structures with synchrotron X-ray tomography,[14] chirally coupled nanomagnets[15] and using nanomagnets for intelligent micro/nano robots.[16][17][18][19][20]

Awards edit

She is a member of German Physical Society and fellow of the American Physical Society, of the IEEE, and of the UK Institute of Physics. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023.[21]

  • 2016: Beller Lectureship at the APS March Meeting 2016, Baltimore, US
  • 2015: Wohlfarth Prize Lecture at UK Magnetism 2015 Meeting

References edit

  1. ^ "Researcher page of Laura Heyderman".
  2. ^ a b "Laura Heyderman's entry at ORCID".
  3. ^ "LinkedIn profile of Laura Heyderman". LinkedIn.
  4. ^ a b "Official personal page of Laura Heyderman".
  5. ^ Heyderman, L. J; Schift, H; David, C; Gobrecht, J; Schweizer, T (2000-12-01). "Flow behaviour of thin polymer films used for hot embossing lithography". Microelectronic Engineering. 54 (3): 229–245. doi:10.1016/S0167-9317(00)00414-7. ISSN 0167-9317.
  6. ^ Schift, H; Heyderman, L J; Maur, M Auf der; Gobrecht, J (2001-05-25). "Pattern formation in hot embossing of thin polymer films". Nanotechnology. 12 (2): 173–177. doi:10.1088/0957-4484/12/2/321. ISSN 0957-4484. S2CID 250901287.
  7. ^ Kläui, M.; Vaz, C. A. F.; Bland, J. A. C.; Wernsdorfer, W.; Faini, G.; Cambril, E.; Heyderman, L. J.; Nolting, F.; Rüdiger, U. (2005-03-15). "Controlled and Reproducible Domain Wall Displacement by Current Pulses Injected into Ferromagnetic Ring Structures". Physical Review Letters. 94 (10): 106601. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.94.106601. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 15783502. S2CID 15119450.
  8. ^ Heyderman, L. J.; Nolting, F.; Backes, D.; Czekaj, S.; Lopez-Diaz, L.; Kläui, M.; Rüdiger, U.; Vaz, C. A. F.; Bland, J. A. C.; Matelon, R. J.; Volkmann, U. G. (2006-06-15). "Magnetization reversal in cobalt antidot arrays". Physical Review B. 73 (21): 214429. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.73.214429. S2CID 18765017.
  9. ^ Jia, Chun-Jiang; Sun, Ling-Dong; Luo, Feng; Han, Xiao-Dong; Heyderman, Laura J.; Yan, Zheng-Guang; Yan, Chun-Hua; Zheng, Kun; Zhang, Ze; Takano, Mikio; Hayashi, Naoaki (2008-12-17). "Large-Scale Synthesis of Single-Crystalline Iron Oxide Magnetic Nanorings". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130 (50): 16968–16977. doi:10.1021/ja805152t. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 19053430.
  10. ^ Mengotti, Elena; Heyderman, Laura J.; Rodríguez, Arantxa Fraile; Nolting, Frithjof; Hügli, Remo V.; Braun, Hans-Benjamin (January 2011). "Real-space observation of emergent magnetic monopoles and associated Dirac strings in artificial kagome spin ice". Nature Physics. 7 (1): 68–74. doi:10.1038/nphys1794. ISSN 1745-2481.
  11. ^ Farhan, A.; Derlet, P. M.; Kleibert, A.; Balan, A.; Chopdekar, R. V.; Wyss, M.; Anghinolfi, L.; Nolting, F.; Heyderman, L. J. (2013-05-05). "Exploring hyper-cubic energy landscapes in thermally active finite artificial spin-ice systems". Nature Physics. 9 (6): 375–382. doi:10.1038/nphys2613. ISSN 1745-2473. S2CID 123384647.
  12. ^ Farhan, A.; Derlet, P. M.; Kleibert, A.; Balan, A.; Chopdekar, R. V.; Wyss, M.; Perron, J.; Scholl, A.; Nolting, F.; Heyderman, L. J. (2013-08-02). "Direct Observation of Thermal Relaxation in Artificial Spin Ice". Physical Review Letters. 111 (5): 057204. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.111.057204. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 23952441.
  13. ^ Anghinolfi, L.; Luetkens, H.; Perron, J.; Flokstra, M. G.; Sendetskyi, O.; Suter, A.; Prokscha, T.; Derlet, P. M.; Lee, S. L.; Heyderman, L. J. (November 2015). "Thermodynamic phase transitions in a frustrated magnetic metamaterial". Nature Communications. 6 (1): 8278. doi:10.1038/ncomms9278. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 4595626. PMID 26387444.
  14. ^ Donnelly, Claire; Guizar-Sicairos, Manuel; Scagnoli, Valerio; Gliga, Sebastian; Holler, Mirko; Raabe, Jörg; Heyderman, Laura J. (July 2017). "Three-dimensional magnetization structures revealed with X-ray vector nanotomography". Nature. 547 (7663): 328–331. doi:10.1038/nature23006. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 28726832. S2CID 205257620.
  15. ^ Luo, Zhaochu; Dao, Trong Phuong; Hrabec, Aleš; Vijayakumar, Jaianth; Kleibert, Armin; Baumgartner, Manuel; Kirk, Eugenie; Cui, Jizhai; Savchenko, Tatiana; Krishnaswamy, Gunasheel; Heyderman, Laura J. (2019-03-29). "Chirally coupled nanomagnets". Science. 363 (6434): 1435–1439. doi:10.1126/science.aau7913. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 30923219. S2CID 85564169.
  16. ^ Cui, Jizhai; Huang, Tian-Yun; Luo, Zhaochu; Testa, Paolo; Gu, Hongri; Chen, Xiang-Zhong; Nelson, Bradley J.; Heyderman, Laura J. (November 2019). "Nanomagnetic encoding of shape-morphing micromachines". Nature. 575 (7781): 164–168. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1713-2. hdl:20.500.11850/377799. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 31695212. S2CID 207914645.
  17. ^ swissinfo.ch, S. W. I.; Corporation, a branch of the Swiss Broadcasting. "Swiss researchers lay foundations for smart microrobots". SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  18. ^ Helga Rietz. "Mit dem Nanovogel durch die Blutbahn segeln | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  19. ^ The Federal Council. "On the way to intelligent microrobots". www.admin.ch. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  20. ^ "On the way to intelligent microrobots". Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI). 2019-11-06. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  21. ^ "Laura Heyderman". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2023-05-24.