Dr. Monica Ciomaga Hatnean
Tenure
Track Scientist
Head of Materials Discovery Laboratory (D-MATL, ETH)
I am Scientist, with an education in Chemistry, working on
synthesis, crystal growth and characterisation of various materials with
interesting properties (see below the Research
Interests section). My research is placed at the interface between Materials
Science, Solid State Chemistry and Condensed Matter Physics.
I am running
and maintaining the Materials Discovery Laboratory, a solid
state synthesis and crystal growth facility hosted in the Department of
Materials (D-MATL), at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH). The idea for this
facility stems from a joint initiative between the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH).
Research interests
- Synthesis, crystal
growth and characterisation of polycrystalline and single crystalline
samples of various compounds (e.g. oxides, borides, chalcogenides,
oxichalcogenide, intermetallics).
- Study of materials that
exhibit interesting structural and physical properties. These materials
belong to the following areas of research:
- Exotic states of matter
(e.g. skyrmionic materials, topological insulators, superconductors,
etc).
- Frustrated magnetism
(e.g. pyrochlores, garnets, Shastry-Sutherland lattices, etc).
- Multiferroic,
ferroelectric and magnetoelectric materials (e.g. ferrites, manganites,
etc).
- 2D and other van der
Waals materials (e.g. semiconductors, superconductors, etc).
- Polymorphism,
structural phase transitions, structural disorder and their effect on the
physical properties of the material.
Publications
A full and up-to-date list
of all my publications (including number of citations) can be accessed on Web of Science Researcher Profiles or ORCID.
Short
CV
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2021 - Present |
Tenure
Track Scientist Laboratory for Multiscale materials eXperiments, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland & Materials Discovery Laboratory, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Switzerland . |
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2018 – 2021 |
Research
Focused Assistant Professor (Permanent position, previously called
Senior Research Fellow) Superconductivity and Magnetism Group, Department of
Physics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom. |
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2013 – 2018 |
Research
Fellow Superconductivity and Magnetism Group, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom . |
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2009 – 2012 |
Doctorate
in Chemistry (Synthesis and study of Ga2 −xFexO3 compounds) Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l’Etat Solide, Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France & Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France . |
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2007 – 2009 |
Master
in Inorganic Chemistry (Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity of
Inorganic and Radiochemical Compounds) Universitatea ”Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din
Iasi, Romania. |
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2008 – 2009 |
Research
Master (Erasmus scholarship, Inorganic
chemistry: from nano-systems to biological systems) Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France. |
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2003 – 2007 |
Bachelor in Chemistry (Technological Biochemistry) Universitatea ”Alexandru Ioan Cuza”
din Iasi, Romania. |
Contact
details
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Laboratory for Multiscale materials
eXperiments Research with Neutrons and Muons Divison Paul Scherrer Institut 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland |
Materials
Discovery Laboratory Department of Materials ETH Zurich 8093 Zurich, Switzerland |
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out more about me on my website: mciomagahatnean.wixsite.com
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