Laura Jane Heyderman FRS is a physicist, materials scientist, academic and Professor of Mesoscopic Systems at the Department of Materials, ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute.

[4] After her PhD, she worked on transmission electron microscopy of magnetic materials and observed magnetic domain configurations in a variety of materials as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Glasgow.

After working in the industry for four years in the United Kingdom, she became a group leader at the Paul Scherrer Institute in 1999, Professor of Mesoscopic Systems at the Department of Materials, ETH Zurich in 2013 and Head of the Laboratory for Multiscale Materials Experiments at the Paul Scherrer Institute in 2017.

[7][8][9] Her research in the field of artificial spin ices consisting of interacting nanomagnets[10][11][12][13] has attracted a significant interest.

Her current research also includes the observation of three-dimensional magnetization structures with synchrotron X-ray tomography,[14] chirally coupled nanomagnets[15] and using nanomagnets for intelligent micro/nano robots.