Photo (©) Jeremy Sourd.
Published on Jan 3, 2024.
Since July 2023, I am doing my first postdoctoral stay at HLD. After my undergraduate years in Orsay (France), I did my PhD in Bordeaux (France) on an interdisciplinary topic between solid-state chemistry in the Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux (ICMCB) and condensed-matter theory in the Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d‘Aquitaine (LOMA). Our focus was on cerium Kondo lattices and iron-based superconductors. I discovered there a passionating world, and I wish I could learn and work more about f-electron compounds, metallic magnetism, and systems with competing interactions. I am currently learning at HLD how to perform ultrasound experiments in static and pulsed fields, and I am quite interested in magnetic susceptibility and transport measurements. I also like to develop simple models and calculations, starting from a few assumptions about the excitation spectrum and symmetry considerations on the orbital content and the crystal structure of a given material. There is a whole aspect of electronics and object-oriented programs that I am very happy to learn here, compared to my PhD where the focus was more on the chemical bonds, the orbitals, and the electrons. Furthermore, belonging to a user facility creates a very stimulating scientific environment that I am glad to have access to. I am also very excited to integrate into the EMFL community and to meet some of you for a cup of coffee and, eventually, a collaboration.
