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Elena Hassinger (born 1982) is a German physicist and professor at the Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden).[1] She is known for her work on quantum materials and low temperature physics.

Career

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Hassinger studied physics at the University of Heidelberg, and graduated with a Diplom (German degree similar to a Masters) in 2007. She then did graduate studies in the group of Jacques Flouquet at the University of Grenoble and French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission.[2] She was awarded a PhD in 2010 with a thesis entitled "Competition of ground states in URu2Si2 and UCoGe".[3] She then moved to Canada, and worked as a postdoc in the group of Louis Taillefer at the Université de Sherbrooke until 2014.[2]

Hassinger returned to Germany as a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (MPI CPfS) in Dresden. In 2021, her group reported the discovery that CeRh2As2 was a superconductor with two superconducting states.[4][5] In 2016, she was appointed to a tenure-track professorship for “Quantum Materials - Experimental Solid State Physics” at the Technical University of Munich while maintaining her earlier position as part of the “MaxPlanck@TUM” collaboration.[6]

In 2022, she was appointed to a new professorship, as the Chair of Low Temperature Physics of Complex Electron Systems at the Institute of Solid State and Materials Physics at TU Dresden.[2] The professorship was established as part of the Excellence Cluster ct.qmat (Complexity and Topology in Quantum Materials), in which Hassinger is also Principal Investigator.[7][8] Since 2023, she has been a sub-project leader for the topic “Transport properties of itinerant frustrated and topological magnets” at the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1143 on “Correlated Magnetism: From Frustration to Topology”.[9]

In 2023, Hassinger was awarded a €2.7 million ERC Consolidator Grant for her project “Exotic Quantum States by Locally Broken Inversion Symmetry in Extreme Conditions—Ixtreme.”.[2][10][11] The project aims to continue working with CeRh2As2 to test for the existence of topological surface states, which would have implications for quantum computing.[10]

Academic diversity

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In 2019, Hassinger was a co-author of a paper entitled "A Leak in the Academic Pipeline: Identity and Health Among Postdoctoral Women".[12] She then developed and taught a seminar called "The Big Bang Theory syndrome: Why should we care about stereotypes?", which examined gender stereotypes, and how they affect scientific careers, behavior and perception. For this seminar, she was acknowledged with an award for diversity-sensitive teaching from TU Dresden.[13][14]

References

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  1. ^ "DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek (Catalog of the German National Library)". portal.dnb.de. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d Christian Olszowa (2023-04-15). "Prof. Dr. Elena Hassinger: Professur für Tieftemperaturphysik komplexer Elektronensysteme". tu-dresden.de. TU Dresden. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  3. ^ Hassinger, Elena (26 October 2010). "Competition of ground states in URu2Si2 and UCoGe". Université de Grenoble. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  4. ^ "New professor at IFMP: Welcome Elena Hassinger!". TU Dresden (in German). Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  5. ^ Khim, S.; Landaeta, J. F.; Banda, J.; Bannor, N.; Brando, M.; Brydon, P. M. R.; Hafner, D.; Küchler, R.; Cardoso-Gil, R.; Stockert, U.; Mackenzie, A. P.; Agterberg, D. F.; Geibel, C.; Hassinger, E. (27 August 2021). "Field-induced transition within the superconducting state of CeRh2As2". Science. 373 (6558): 1012–1016. arXiv:2101.09522. doi:10.1126/science.abe7518. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  6. ^ "Elena Hassinger Tenure Track Professur". cpfs.mpg.de. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. 2016-11-23. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  7. ^ "New quantum professor in Dresden: With record low temperatures into the hotspot of solid state physics". TU Dresden (in German). Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  8. ^ "Principal Investigators ct.qmat". ctqmat.de (in German). Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  9. ^ "DFG - GEPRIS - Transporteigenschaften itineranter frustrierter und topologischer Magnete". gepris.dfg.de. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  10. ^ a b "€2.7 million for Superconducting "Miracle"". www.uni-wuerzburg.de. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  11. ^ Weckbrodt, Heiko (23 November 2023). "Über 10 Millionen Euro für sächsische Spitzenforscher". Oiger (in German). Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  12. ^ Renate Ysseldyk; Katharine H. Greenaway; Elena Hassinger; Sarah Zutrauen; Jana Lintz; Maya P. Bhatia; Margaret Frye; Else Starkenburg; Vera Tai (2019-06-04), "A Leak in the Academic Pipeline: Identity and Health Among Postdoctoral Women", Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 10, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01297, hdl:11343/271519, ISSN 1664-1078, PMC 6559120, PMID 31231285
  13. ^ Kühlborn, Grit. "Awards for diversity-sensitive teaching 2023". TU Dresden (in German). Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  14. ^ "Lehrpreis für Elena Hassinger: Wie beeinflussen Geschlechterstereotype eine Wissenschaftskarriere? (Teaching award for Elena Hassinger: How do gender stereotypes influence a career in science?)". www.ctqmat.de (in German). Retrieved 20 May 2025.
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