New professor at IFMP: Welcome Elena Hassinger!

We are very happy to welcome Elena Hassinger as a new professor at the IFMP!

Elena has been appointed to the new W2 professorship for Low-Temperature Physics of Complex Electron Systems, which belongs to the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat. We wish Elena a good start, much success in her work and look forward to doing research together! 

About Elena Hassinger:
Elena's research aims at understanding how electrons in quantum materials interact and thereby form new collective states of matter. Of particular interest to her are correlated metals, unconventional superconductors, frustrated itinerant magnets and topological Weyl semimetals. Elena explores the exotic ground states in the corresponding materials by means of  state-of-the-art transport and thermodynamic measurements under extreme conditions, such as very low temperatures, high magnetic fields, and hydrostatic and uniaxial pressure. This makes Elena a perfect match for the research being conducted within ct.qmat, the CRC 1143 and at IFMP. 

During her career Elena has made significant contributions to her field: In her PhD at the University in Grenoble in the group of Jacques Flouquet, she did distinguished work on heavy fermion superconductors, most notably obtaining some highly influential results on the hidden order and superconductivity of URu2Si2. For her postdoc she moved to the Sherbrooke University in Canada from 2010 to 2014 to work with Louis Taillefer on unconventional superconductors. In 2014, she joined the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, where she led an independent Max Planck Research Group and collaborated in particular with Andy Mackenzie and Claudia Felser. Here her group published a few seminal papers on Weyl semimetals and recently reported in the Science magazine the discovery of the unique superconductor CeRh2As2 showing two superconducting states. Furthermore, in 2016,  she was appointed a tenure-track professorship at the Technische Universität München, which she held until August 2022. 

Now we are glad she joined ct.qmat and the IFMP at the TU Dresden!