Jul 01, 2025
Congratulations Nina!!
Amazing hat and two proud supervisors.
We are very happy to share that Nina has successfully completed her PhD!
Within a collaboration with Clifford Hicks (formerly MPI CPfS, now University of Birmingham, UK), she worked on the strain tuning of quantum materials, focusing on the delafossite PdCrO₂, a frustrated magnet with a highly tunable magnetic ground state. She did a truly impressive job, combining stress-strain measurements with strain-dependent x-ray and neutron diffraction. This turned out to be a very fruitful project and led to a very good dissertation.
On July 1st — a beautiful and sunny day in Dresden — she passed both her final Rigorosum (oral examination) and the public defense of her dissertation with great success.
We warmly congratulate Dr. Nina Stilkerich on this achievement and wish her all the best for the future. Nina has already started a new job, and we wish her every success for this exciting next chapter in her career.