Curriculum Vitae
Claudia Felser studied chemistry and
physics at the University of Cologne (Germany, completing there both her
diploma in solid state chemistry (1989) and her doctorate in physical chemistry
(1994). After postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart
(Germany) and the CNRS in Nantes (France), she joined the University of Mainz (Germany)
in 1996 becoming a full professor there in 2003. She is currently Director at
the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden (Germany). Her
research foci are the design and discovery of novel inorganic compounds, in
particular, Heusler compounds for multiple applications and new topological
quantum materials. In 2011 and again in 2017, she received an ERC Advanced grant.
Felser was honored as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society, she
received the Alexander M. Cruickshank Lecturer Award of the Gordon Research
Conference, a SUR-grant Award from IBM and the Tsungmin Tu Research Prize from the
Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan, the highest academic honor
granted to foreign researchers in Taiwan. In 2019, Claudia Felser was awarded
the APS James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials together with Bernevig
(Princeton) and Dai (Hongkong). She is a Fellow of the American Physical
Society and the Institute of Physics, London. In 2018, she became a member of
the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, and acatech, the
German National Academy of Science and Engineering. Since 2020, Felser has been an international member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and in 2021, she has been appointed as an international member to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).