© Joannis Koepsell.
Published on 12.05.2025.
I have joined the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) group at LNCMI-Grenoble as a CNRS junior researcher in October 2024. It is
a great privilege to once more collaborate with the colleagues whom I came to know during my PhD.
My PhD project, “Competing Orders in High-Temperature Superconductors”, involved high-field experiments at LNCMIGrenoble and NHMFL Tallahassee, and was supervised by Marc-Henri Julien.
Cuprate superconductors still fascinate me, but currently I am learning about quantum magnetism, which is Mladen Horvati´c’s area of expertise. While continuing in this research direction, I plan to explore frustrated magnetism and other topological materials in the future, such as Weyl semimetals, for instance. The application of uniaxial pressure for tuning electronic properties is a technique we are developing at LNCMI, and we hope to pair it with high magnetic fields.
I grew up in Germany and studied at the Goethe University Frankfurt. After spending two years in the USA as a postdoc in Nicholas
J. Curro’s NMR group at UC Davis, I spent three years in Germany – working at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Le Tacon group, X-ray scattering) and at the University of Göttingen (Ropers group, electron microscopy). So, I aim to strengthen ties with our German EMFL colleagues in the coming years. Outside of Europe, the NMR group collaborates actively with the Synergetic Extreme Conditions User Facility near Beijing (SECUF). There, however, I still need the assistance of Duolingo to attain fluency in speaking Mandarin! Zàijiàn!
