Nicola Spaldin#
| Membership Number: | 5765 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://theory.mat.ethz.ch |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0709-9499 |
| Twitter: | @NicolaSpaldin |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present ETH Zurich, Department of Materials, Professor and Chair of Materials Theory
- 1997 - 2010 University of California, Santa Barbara, Materials Department, Assistant, Associate and Full Professor
- 1996 - 1997 Yale University, Applied Physics Dept., Postdoctoral Researcher
- 1991 - 1996 University of California, Berkeley, Chemistry Dept., Graduate Student Researcher
Fields of Scholarship
- Strongly correlated materials
- Materials chemistry
- Electronic-structure theory
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Member, German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
- 2022 Europhysics Prize of the European Physical Society
- 2022 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics
- 2022 Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2021 IUPAP Magnetism Award and Néel Medal
- 2021 Member, French Academy of Sciences
- 2021 Member, Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences
- 2020 2014. ETH Zürich Golden Owl Award for Teaching Excellence
- 2019 Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist
- 2019 ERC Synergy Grant
- 2019 Foreign Member, National Academy of Engineering (USA)
- 2018 Honorary Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge
- 2017 Fellow of the Royal Society (UK)
- 2017 L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Prize
- 2017 Materials Research Society, Mid-Career Award
- 2017 Fellow, European Academy of Sciences
- 2017 Lise Meitner Lectureship of the German and Austrian Physical Societies
- 2015 Koerber European Science Prize
- 2013 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2012 Max Roessler Prize of the ETH
- 2012 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2011 Fellow, Materials Research Society
- 2010 American Physical Society, McGroddy Prize for New Materials
- 2008 Fellow, American Physical Society
