Leslie M Schoop

Early life and education Schoop grew up in Germany close to the border with Belgium. She has said that her mother was a strong independent woman. She was an undergraduate student at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universitaet in Mainz. She completed her doctoral research at Princeton University, where she worked on exotic properties in condensed matter with Robert Cava. She was unsure whether to pursue a career in academia or industry, and turned to her grandfather for her advice, who said, "You know, Leslie, money should never be a reason why you make a career decision. If you're good at your job, the money will come". where she found the first non-toxic air-stable topological semi-metal, ZrSiS.

In 2022, she identified a new quantum state in twisted bilayer tungsten ditelluride. In confined electrons, twisted bilayer graphene are strongly correlated, forming one-dimensional linear arrays of conductive channels. 2019 Beckman Young Investigator Award 2021 Sloan Fellowship 2022 National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Selected publications Large, non-saturating magnetoresistance in WTe2 Dirac cone protected by non-symmorphic symmetry and three-dimensional Dirac line node in ZrSiS A new form of Ca3P2 with a ring of Dirac nodes