Maria Roser Valentí is a

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- Catalonian professor of theoretical

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Biography

In 1987 Valentí graduated from the

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with honors, in 1989 she then finished also finished her doctoral thesis in theoretical

with distinction at the

After her dissertation she was named Fulbright-Fellow allowing her to study at the

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Scientific interests

Within theoretical condensed matter physics Valentí has contributed to understanding of

superconductivity Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in superconductors: materials where Electrical resistance and conductance, electrical resistance vanishes and Magnetic field, magnetic fields are expelled from the material. Unlike an ord ...

, frustrated

magnetism Magnetism is the class of physical attributes that occur through a magnetic field, which allows objects to attract or repel each other. Because both electric currents and magnetic moments of elementary particles give rise to a magnetic field, ...

, and topological isolators. In her group

exact diagonalization Exact diagonalization (ED) is a numerical technique used in physics to determine the eigenstates and energy eigenvalues of a quantum Hamiltonian (quantum mechanics), Hamiltonian. In this technique, a Hamiltonian for a discrete, finite system is exp ...

, single particle Green's Functions and

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

techniques are employed. During the

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Valentí also published research assessing the efficiency of certain mitigation strategies like

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. She is a member of several scientific councils.

Fellowships and awards

* Fellow of the

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* Michael und Biserka Baum Preis * Fulbright Fellowship * Speaker of the national research initiative "Elastic Tuning and Responses of Electronic Quantum Phases of Matter" (ELASTO-Q-MAT) * Speaker of the international research initiative "Quantitative Spatio-Temporal Model-Building for Correlated Electronic Matter" (QUAST - for 5249) * Member of the DFG Fachkollegium of condensed matter physics * Editor Board of the Journal

Physical Review B ''Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics'' (also known as PRB) is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal, published by the American Physical Society (APS). The Lead Editor of PRB is Stephen E. Nagler and the Chief Editor is Sarma ...

Selected publications

* Stephen M. Winter, Kira Riedl, David Kaib, Radu Coldea, Roser Valentí, Probing RuCl3 Beyond Magnetic Order: Effects of Temperature and Magnetic Field, Physical Review Letters 120, 077203 (2018) * Stephen M. Winter, Kira Riedl, Pavel A. Maksimov, Alexander L. Chernyshev, Andreas Honecker, Roser Valentí, Breakdown of Magnons in a Strongly Spin-Orbital Coupled Magnet, Nature Communications 8, 1152 (2017) * Daniel Guterding, Sandra Diehl, Michaela Altmeyer, Torsten Methfessel, Ulrich Tutsch, Harald Schubert, Michael Lang, Jens Müller, Michael Huth, Harald O. Jeschke, Roser Valentí, Martin Jourdan, Hans-Joachim Elmers, Evidence for eight node mixed-symmetry superconductivity in a correlated organic metal, Physical Review Letters 116, 237001 (2016)

References

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