Laura J. Heyderman

Laura Jane Heyderman is a physicist, materials scientist, academic and Professor of Mesoscopic Systems at the Department of Materials, ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute. Her research is focused on magnetism and magnetic materials.

Education and early life She received her BSc degree in chemical physics in 1988, and PhD in physics in 1991 from University of Bristol. Her career in magnetism started with her PhD project on magnetic multi-layers that she conducted at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. and electron beam lithography as well as magnetic thin films and nanostructures. Her research in the field of artificial spin ices consisting of interacting nanomagnets has attracted a significant interest. Her current research also includes the observation of three-dimensional magnetization structures with synchrotron X-ray tomography, chirally coupled nanomagnets and using nanomagnets for intelligent micro/nano robots.

Awards She is a member of German Physical Society and fellow of the American Physical Society, of the IEEE, and of the UK Institute of Physics. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023. 2016: Beller Lectureship at the APS March Meeting 2016, Baltimore, US 2015: Wohlfarth Prize Lecture at UK Magnetism 2015 Meeting