Physicist Dr. Claire Donnelly has been named TUD Young Investigator and has now received her certificate from the Rector of TU Dresden, Prof. Ursula M. Staudinger. The early-career researcher is currently conducting research at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids. Her research group is investigating new ways to control the functionality of quantum materials: extending it to three-dimensional nanogeometries. For that research, Donnelly also secured an ERC Starting Grant in September 2023.

During her PhD at ETH Zurich, Claire Donnelly developed X-ray magnetic tomography, which enables the visualization of three-dimensional magnetic structures. She was awarded a number of prizes for her PhD thesis entitled "On Three-Dimensional Magnetic Systems" (2017). She then moved to the University of Cambridge and the Cavendish Laboratory as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, where she was awarded the L'Oreal For Women In Science Fellowship and the European Magnetism Association Young Scientist Award. Since September 2021, she has been the Lise Meitner Group Leader of Spin3D at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden and recently received the IEEE Magnetics Society Early Career Award.

The status of “TUD Young Investigator" strengthens the position of excellent, independent junior research group leaders in the science hub of Dresden by integrating them more closely into the faculties and offering a range of qualifications specifically tailored to their needs. "TUD Young Investigators" choose a TUD professor as a mentor, they are involved as reviewers for doctoral procedures and are given the opportunity to become involved in teaching.

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