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USER COMMITTEE
In order to represent the interests of the high field user community, nine members (all external to the infrastructures) are elected for a period of three years by the user community during the annual User Meeting.
The chairman of the User Committee will report to the Board of Directors on behalf of the users.
During the User Meetings the User Committee will report to the users and collect the feedback.
USER COMMITTEE MEMBERS
| NAME | AFFILIATION | SPECIALISATION |
|---|---|---|
| Raivo Stern (Chair) | NICPB, Tallinn | NMR/ESR |
| Ashish Arora | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) | Optics and magneto-optics of 2D semiconductors |
| Mathias Dörr | TU Dresden | Magnetism |
| Karel Prokes | Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin | Magnetism |
| Carsten Putzke | Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg |
Metals/Superconductors |
| Antonio Polimeni | Sapienza Università di Roma | Optics/Semicond |
| Alexandre Pourret | IMAPEC-PHELIQS-INAC CEA | Magnetism/Superconductivity |
| Vassil Skumryev | ICREA, Barcelona | Magnetism/Magnetic materials |
| Stan Tozer | MagLab | CMS |
| Maciej Molas | University of Warsaw | Optics/Semiconductors |
EMFL Prize
Since 2009, the EMFL Prize (2009 – 2012: EuroMagNET Prize) has been awarded annually for outstanding achievements in science in high magnetic fields. The next awarding ceremony will take place during the EMFL User Meeting 2025
THE EMFL PRIZE 2024
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.
PREVIOUS AWARDEES OF THE EMFL PRIZE
2024: Elena Blundo, postdoctorate rececher at the Walter Schottky Institut, Technical University of Munich, Germany.
2023: Jake Ayres, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK..
2022: Mateusz Dyksik, an assistant professor at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland.
2021: Denis Gorbunov from the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory (HLD) at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany.
2020: Zhe Wang, junior group leader at the University of Cologne, Germany.
2019: Ashish Arora, postdoctorate researcher, University of Münster, Germany.
2018: Artem Mishchenko, ESPRC Research Fellow in the Condensed Matter Physics Group of the University of Manchester (UK).
2017: Sven Badoux from the Physics department at the Université de Sherbrooke (CA)
2016: Alix McCollam from the High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML) at the Radboud University (RU) in Nijmegen (NL)
2015: Carsten Putzke from the school of Physics at the University of Bristol (GB)
2014: Milan Orlita from the Laboratoire National des Champs Megnétiques Intenses (LNCMI) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Grenoble
2013: Benoît Fauqué from the Laboratoire de Physique et d’Étude des Matériaux (LPEM) at the Ecole Supérieur de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI).