Claudia Felser

Claudia Felser (28 July 1962 in Aachen) is a German solid state chemist and materials scientist.

After postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany (1994-1995) with Arndt Simon and Ole Krogh Andersen, she moved to the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Nantes, France (1995-1996), where she worked in the group of Jean Rouxel.

[3] Her initial research interests include Heusler compounds and related filled tetrahedral structure types, the design, synthesis and physical investigation of new quantum materials, and materials for energy technologies (solar cells, thermoelectrics, catalysis, spintronics).

Felser, along with collaborators, developed the field of topological quantum chemistry, which involves the design, synthesis, and realization of new multifunctional materials guided by theory.

In particular, she focuses on new materials for quantum technologies such as topological insulators, Weyl and Dirac semimetals, skyrmions, superconductors, new fermions, and new quasiparticles (axions, majorana, parafermions, etc.).

Claudia Felser (pictured right) in March 2019 in Boston , co-recipient of the 2019 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials awarded by the American Physical Society (APS) . [ 4 ]
She is accompanied by Julia Mundy & Giulia Galli (in left and in the middle respectively) .