Silke Bühler-Paschen
EducationGraz University of Technology (Diploma, 1992)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (PhD, 1995)
Scientific career
Fieldssolid-state physics
InstitutionsTU Wien

Silke Bühler-Paschen is a German-Austrian solid-state physicist and has been professor for physics at TU Wien, Austria since 2005.[1]

Education

Bühler-Paschen studied physics at Graz University of Technology and earned her diploma in 1992.[1] In 1995 she earned her PhD with her thesis titled "Electron transport in polymer composites" at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.[2]

Career

Bühler-Paschen worked as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich between 1995 and 1998 and as a group leader at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden starting in 1999, where she also became an assistant professor in 2003.[1][3] In 2005, Bühler-Paschen became the first female full professor of physics at TU Wien,[3] and she became chair of the institute for solid state physics in 2007.[4]

Bühler-Paschen served as visiting professor at Nagoya University in 2001/2002[5] and at Rice University in 2016/2017.[6] She served on the ERC Starting Grant peer review panel in Condensed Matter Physics in 2019.[7] Bühler-Paschen's research was funded by the European Research Council[8] and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).[9] She studied complex metallic alloys within an EU-funded "Network of Excellence".[10][11] Bühler-Paschen is on the Low Temperature Section board of Heidelberg University's Condensed Matter Division,[12] as well as the board of European Forum Alpbach[13] and the advisory board of the low-temperature research institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.[14] She was also on the European Physical Society's EPS Condensed Matter Board in 2019.[15]

Research

Bühler-Paschen studies new materials, typically by growing high-quality single crystals, which are then characterized for their structure and composition, and whose physical properties are typically measured at low temperatures.[10] Bühler-Paschen's research focuses on strongly correlated and thermoelectric materials. She studies magnetism and superconductivity in heavy fermion systems, as well as materials exhibiting the thermoelectric effect.[16]

During her time in Dresden, Bühler-Paschen's research started to focus on materials with cage-like crystal structures called clathrates with respect to their potential applications as thermoelectrics.[3] Later, she discovered how the temperature-dependent rattling behavior of caged cerium atoms in such clathrates can stabilize the Kondo effect at unusually high temperatures,[17] as well as the first observed collapse of the Kondo effect due to three-dimensional quantum fluctuations.[18]

Bühler-Paschen contributed to the first identification of Weyl fermions in a strongly correlated Weyl-Kondo semimetal.[19] She realized the individual toggling of different electronic degrees of freedom in correlated electron systems.[20][21] Bühler-Paschen investigated metallic materials whose electrical resistance exhibits unusual behavior with varying temperatures, which is related to superconductivity and based on quantum-critical charge fluctuations.[22][23][24][25][26][27][28]

Awards and honors

Personal life

Bühler-Paschen grew up living in Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria. She practiced gymnastics between the ages of 8 and 18 and was discovered as a model at the age of 14.[4] She has three children and her husband is also a physicist.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Silke Bühler-Paschen - junge Physikprofessorin mit "drive"". May 24, 2005. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  2. ↑ Electron transport in polymer composites. EPFL. 1995. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 "Movers - Silke Bühler-Paschen, professor, Technical University of Vienna". Nature. 431 (7011): 1022. October 20, 2004. doi:10.1038/nj7011-1022c. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Physikerin, Model, Turnerin". science.ORF.at. August 7, 2012. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  5. 1 2 "Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Silke Bühler-Paschen". FEMtech. March 10, 2006. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Silke Buehler-Paschen". Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  7. ↑ "ERC Starting Grant Panel 2019 - Members of the ERC Peer Review Panels" (PDF). Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  8. 1 2 "Quantum Criticality - The Puzzle of Multiple Energy Scales". Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  9. ↑ "DFG - GEPRIS - Nanostructured Transition-Metal Clathrates and Clathrate-Oxide Nanocomposites". Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  10. 1 2 "Lise Meitners Töchter Physikerinnen stellen sich vor" (PDF). German Physical Society & Austrian Physical Society. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  11. ↑ "Final Report Summary - CMA (Complex Metallic Alloys)". Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  12. ↑ "Low Temperature Section Board members". Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  13. ↑ "Dr. Silke Bühler-Paschen - Vorstand, Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Wien". Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Research projects and institutes - Advisory Board: Walther-Meißner-Institut für Tieftemperaturforschung". Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  15. ↑ "2019 Composition of the EPS Condensed Matter Board". Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  16. ↑ "Silke Bühler-Paschen". January 15, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  17. ↑ "Creating electricity with caged atoms". October 29, 2013. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  18. ↑ "Wie Elektronen Party feiern". January 8, 2012. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  19. ↑ "A Particle Like Slow Light". December 22, 2017. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  20. ↑ "Switching electron properties on and off individually". August 22, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  21. ↑ "Switching electron properties on and off individually". August 22, 2019. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  22. ↑ "Direct Evidence of Entanglement's Role in Quantum Criticality Found in 'Strange Metal'". SciTechDaily. January 16, 2020. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  23. ↑ "Turn and face the strange". Materials Today. January 29, 2020. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  24. ↑ "A new look at 'strange metals'". innovation report. January 21, 2020. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  25. ↑ "Ein neuer Blick auf "seltsame Metalle"". APA-Science. January 16, 2020. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  26. ↑ "A new look at 'strange metals'". EurekAlert! AAAS. January 16, 2020. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  27. ↑ "Physicists Finally Observe a Link Between Quantum Criticality And Entanglement". January 20, 2020. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  28. ↑ "A new look at 'strange metals'". January 20, 2020. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  29. ↑ "Silke Bühler-Paschen wird Fellow der APS". October 12, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  30. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive - Initial B". Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  31. ↑ "APS Physics - Division of Condensed Matter Physics - APS Fellowship". Retrieved March 18, 2020.
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