DC/Pulsed/High B/T Advisory Committee
Updated June 2013
*Member of Users Executive Committee
Kenneth Burch
University of Toronto
Department of Physics and Institute for Optical Sciences
60 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 1A7
Phone (Office): 416-978-5264
Phone (Lab): 416-978-0159
Fax: 1-416-978-2537
Web: http://burchgroup.physics.utoronto.ca/
Email: kburch@physics.utoronto.ca
Research Interests: Optical spectroscopy, ultra fast optics, nano materials, topological insulators, strongly correlated materials, high temperature superconductors and magnetic semiconductors
Term Start Date: 1/13
Term End Date: 12/15
Jason Cooley
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Alloy Design and Development Team, MST-6
MS G770
Los Alamos, NM 87545
Phone: 505-665-6879
Fax: 505-665-0657
Email: cooley@lanl.gov
Research Interests: Magnetic field effects on phase transformations at elevated temperatures, especially with respect to crystal growth, solidification, and solid-solid transformations in metals. Development and use of high temperature thermodynamic and scattering diagnostics such as calorimetry and x-ray diffraction to be deployed in high magnetic fields.
Term Start Date: 1/14
Term End Date: 12/16
Nicholas Curro*
University of California Davis
One Shields Avenue
Physics Department
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 530-402-9925
Fax: 530-752-4717
Email: curro@physics.ucdavis.edu
Research Interests: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in strongly correlated electron materials, including unconventional superconductors, heavy fermions, iron arsenides and transition metal oxides, Materials under extreme conditions (high fields, low temperatures and high pressures), Novel surface electronic states in new materials (topological insulators)
Term Start Date: 1/12
Term End Date: 12/14
Ian Fisher*
Stanford University
Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials
Department of Applied Physics
476 Lomita Mall, McCullough Bldg. Rm 364
Stanford, CA 94305-4045
Phone: 650-723-5821
Email: irfisher@stanford.edu
Research Interests: Unconventional magnetic & electronic ground states & phase transitions. Interests include superconductivity, instabilities of quasi low-dimensional materials and quantum magnetism. Emphasis on crystal growth of new materials. Experiments at the NHMFL using DC and pulsed field facilities probe magnetotransport, quantum oscillations and field-induced phase transitions.
Term Start Date: 1/12
Term End Date: 12/14
Nathanael Fortune
Smith College
Department of Physics
McConnell 315
44 College Lane
Northampton, MA 01093
Phone (Office): 413-585-3980
Fax: 413-585-3786
Email: nfortune@smith.edu
Research Interests: Field-induced phase transitions in frustrated quantum antiferromagnets and low-dimensional superconductors, especially organics. Emphasis on small sample low temperature calorimetric methods as a function of temperature, magnetic field, and field-angle for anisotropic, layered-structure materials.
Term Start Date: 1/14
Term End Date: 12/16
Jeanie Lau
University of California, Riverside
Department of Physics and Astronomy
900 University Ave
Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: 951-827-7197
Fax: 951-827-4529
Email: lau@physics.ucr.edu
Research Interests: Transport properties of low dimensional systems
Term Start Date: 1/13
Term End Date: 12/15
Janice Musfeldt*
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Department of Chemistry
Knoxville, TN 37996
Phone: 865-974-3392
Fax: 865-974-3454
Email: musfeldt@utk.edu
Research Interests: Expert in the use of optical spectroscopies to investigate the local structural and dynamical properties of functional materials
Term Start Date: 1/11
Term End Date: 12/13
Cedomir Petrovic
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Exploratory Materials Synthesis and Characterization
Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department
Building 510B
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY 11973
Phone: 631-344-5065
Fax: 631-344-2739
Email: petrovic@bnl.gov
Research Interests: Superconductivity and Strongly Correlated Electrons, Materials, Transport Thermal and Magnetic Properties.
Term Start Date: 1/12
Term End Date: 12/14
Oliver Portugall
Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses
CNRS, UPR 3228, site de Toulouse
143, avenue de Rangueil
F-31400 Toulouse, FRANCE
Phone: +33 (0) 562 17 29 73
Fax: +33 (0) 562 17 28 16
Email: oliver.portugall@lncmi.cnrs.fr
Research Interests: Pulsed magnet technology, optical and infrared spectroscopy, electronic properties of condensed matter in high magnetic fields
Term Start Date: 1/11
Term End Date: 12/13
Makariy Tanatar
US DOE The Ames Laboratory
Divison of Material Science and Engineering
A217 Zaffarano Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: 515-294-4072
Fax: 515-294-0689
Email: tanatar@ameslab.gov
Research Interests: Thermal and electrical transport measurements, unconventional superconductivity
Term Start Date: 1/13
Term End Date: 12/15
Chris Wiebe
University of Winnipeg
Department of Chemistry
515 Portage Ave.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3B2E9
Phone: 204-786-9487
Email: ch.wiebe@uwinnipeg.ca
Research Interests: Synthesis and characterization of new highly correlated electron materials, specializing in the crystal growth of oxides. Neutron scattering and x-ray scattering studies of frustrated magnets, low dimensional systems, and unconventional superconductors. Experiments at the NHMFL have emphasized the elucidation of the phase diagrams of new materials.
Term Start Date: 1/14
Term End Date: 12/16
For more information, contact Users Programs Chief of Staff Kathy Hedick.
