Heike Pfau
Research Interests
My research focuses on materials with strong electronic correlations. These materials develop novel phenomena and unconventional electronic phases such as heavy fermion behavior, unconventional superconductivity, nematicity, and quantum criticality. I want to advance the knowledge of such emergent collective phenomena using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) as well as low temperature transport and thermodynamic probes. My main focus lies on correlated materials containing transition metal or rare-earth elements such as heavy fermion systems and iron-based superconductors.
Professional Career
Since 2021 Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA
2021 Research Scientist, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA
2019 - 2020 Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
2015 - 2018 Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA
2010 - 2015 Research Assistant, Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids Dresden, Germany
Education
Ph.D. Physics, Technical University Dresden & Max-Planck Institute CPfS Dresden, Germany (2015)
Diploma Physics, Technical University Dresden, Germany (2010)
Honors and Awards
DFG Research Fellowship from the German Science Foundation (2018)
Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck Society (2016)
Springer Thesis Award (2016)
Feodor-Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation (2015)