Fiona J. Burnell (born 1979)[1] is a Canadian-American condensed matter physicist who studies exotic states of matter including fractional quantum Hall states and topological insulators.
[2] She is Tang Family Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota,[3] and a quondam fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
[6] Her dissertation was On exotic orders in strongly correlated systems.
[4] She joined the University of Minnesota in 2013;[8] she became a full professor, and was appointed as the inaugural Tang Family Professor, in 2024.
[3] Burnell was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2023, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for outstanding contributions toward the elucidation of exotic phases of matter, including topological phases that are not described by the conventional Landau classification based on broken symmetries".