Prof. Dr. Elena Hassinger
Prof. Elena Hassinger
Prof. Dr. Elena Hassinger is a renown expert in fundamental research in condensed matter physics in the area of strongly correlated electron systems.
A short video introducing her research is on youtube.
Elena received her physics diploma at the university of Heidelberg in 2007 and her PhD in 2010 in the group by Jacques Flouquet in CEA Grenoble, France.
During her postdoc in Louis Taillefer’s group in Sherbrooke, Canada, she held a Cifar Global Scholarship and FQRNT postdoc fellowship.
In 2014 she was awarded an independent Max-Planck research group leader position by the Max Planck Society. She led the group “Physics of Unconventional Metals and Superconductors” at the MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany until 2022.
Between 2016 and 2022 Prof. Elena Hassinger additionally held an assistant professorship for Quantum Matter - Experimental Solid State Physics at the TU Munich.
Since 2022 she is appointed Professor for Low-Temperature Physics of Complex Electron Systems at the TU Dresden in the Institute for Solid State and Materials Physics. Here, she became a PI of the Excellence Cluster ct.qmat and CRC1143.
Since October 2022 she is a Max Planck Fellow at the MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden.
Elena Hassinger has a 10+ years experience working in the field of quantum matter and has co-authored more than 53 peer-reviewed publications (h-index of 23).
Elena Hassinger's main achievements
- The establishment of the pressure-phase diagrams of several unconventional superconductors and the nodal structure of Sr2RuO4.
- In Weyl semimetals, she investigated in detail the electronic structure and found that current inhomogeneities can influence measurements of the longitudinal magnetoresistance.
- Furthermore, she discovered the two phases of the superconductor CeRh2As2, a unique unconventional superconductor influenced by Rashba and Kondo interactions.