EMFL User Organisation
Photo (©) Gideon Laureijs

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 2024 in Dresden

THE EMFL PRIZE 2023

Jake Ayres, who performed his PhD work at HFML in Nijmegen, is a regular user of the EMFL facilities. His work is mainly focused on high-temperature superconductors. Significant results encompass his work on the in-plane magnetoresistance as well as the Hall effect under hydrostatic pressure of cuprate superconductors published in highly ranked journals. He further utilized the EMFL high magnetic fields to study the nematic iron-based superconductor FeSe and the nodal-line semimetal ZrSiS. In summary, Jake’s substantial body of experimental work, performed at EMFL facilities, has made major advances in our understanding of unconventional superconductors.

PREVIOUS AWARDEES OF THE EMFL PRIZE

  • 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).