Prof. Dr. Aparajita Singha

Prof. Dr. Aparajita Singha has extensive research experience in magnetism of low-coordinated atoms and molecules using spatially resolving scanning probe methods (STM/AFM) as well as using element specific x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD). Most of her PhD (completed in 2017, from EPF Lausanne) and Postdoctoral phase (2017—2018 in EPF Lausanne & 2018—2019 in QNS, Seoul, Republic of Korea) was devoted to understand complex adatom-substrate and adatom-adatom interactions in lanthanide electron spin systems, which were instrumental in the discovery of surface-supported single atom magnets. From 2020 -- 2022, she was employed as a senior scientist at the Nanoscale Science department of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI-FKF), Stuttgart. During this time her group developed a new home-built NV magnetometry setup for performing quantum senisng experiments under ultra-high vacuum conditions and at liquid helium temperature. Her research ideas involving studies of quantum sensing and coherent spin dynamics in low-coordinated surface-supported systems, were recognized through a young researcher grant at IQST in 2021, the Nexus award from the Carl Zeiss Foundation in 2022 (later declined in favour of ENP), and an Emmy Noether grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 2022. Her Emmy Noether group has been established since 2022 at MPI-FKF, Stuttgart. Since 2025, she has been appointed as the Chair of Nanoscale Quantum Materials in the Institute for Solid State and Materials Physics. With this appointment, she also has become a PI of the cluster of excellence ct.qmat.

Prof. Singha's full publication list can be found here.