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During the User Meeting in Nottingham, Elena Blundo received the EMFL prize 2024. Jochen Wosnitza, chair of the EMFL prize committee, had the honor of presenting the prize in a traditional small prize ceremony. The EMFL prize was established in 2009 and recognizes outstanding achievements related to research in all disciplines utilizing high magnetic fields. Elena received her PhD in Physics in January 2023 from the Department of Physics of Sapienza University of Rome. Currently, she is a distinguished postdoc fellow at the Walter Schottky Institut, at the
Technical University of Munich. The prize recognizes Elena‘s work related to the use of high magnetic fields in complex optical-spectroscopy experiments on two-dimensional (2D) crystals. She investigated the electronic and mechanical properties of 2D materials, such as monolayers and heterostructures of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), hexagonal boron nitride, nano-porous graphene, III-V nanowires, and perovskites. Remarkably is her research of the Moiré localization effect in TMD-based heterostructures and the development of a novel method to induce extremely high strains in TMDs that allowed her to unveil novel strain-induced effects in these materials.
