Maia Vergniory
Spanish computational chemist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maia Garcia Vergniory is a Spanish computational physicist who is a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.[1] Her work in topological quantum chemistry investigates the phases of topological materials.[2] She was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022.[3]
Maia Vergniory | |
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| Born | Maia Garcia Vergniory |
| Alma mater | University of the Basque Country Joseph Fourier University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electronic structure Magnetism Spin Metals Topological insulators[1] |
| Institutions | Donostia International Physics Center Ikerbasque Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids |
| Thesis | Gorputz anitzen eta banda-egituraren efektuak egoera elektroniko kitzikatuen zein oio higikorren eta gainazal solidoen arteko elkerrekintzaren gainean (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jose Maria Pitarke de la Torre and Pedro Miguel Echenique |
| Website | maiagv-dipc |
Early life and education
Vergniory was born in Getxo.[4] She was a doctoral researcher at the University of the Basque Country. Her research considered many-body effects on the interactions between excited electronic states and the mobile ions on surfaces.[5] She started working on topological materials in 2012.[6]
Research and career
Summarize
Perspective
Vergniory worked as a research fellow at the Ikerbasque and the Donostia International Physics Center.[7] She studied novel materials and computational strategies to realise new condensed matter systems.[8]
Verginory became interested in the design of new topological materials with optimised functional properties.[9][10] Topological materials are insulators in the bulk but conductive on their surfaces.[11] The conducting channels that facilitate current flow are robust and independent of size.
Vergniory studied the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database to identify topologically nontrivial materials.[12] She designed a computational effort to simulate real materials and determine whether or not they showed topological properties.[13] This included complex theoretical analysis that could classify topological phases, and information from materials scientists on whether materials were suitable or not.[14] Vergniory uses her supercomputers to perform her calculations ab initio.[6] In an interview with Physics World, Verginory said that she had been surprised by how many materials she identified with topological properties.[14] As an output of this work, the high-order topological insulator Bi4Br4 was synthesised and studied experimentally. She showed that if it was possible to identify the symmetry of the crystalline symmetry of a material, she could easily anticipate the behaviour of the charge.[14] She has since started investigating organic materials.[14] She believes that topological crystals with a chiral structure will display several exotic physical phenomena.[15]
Awards and honours
- 2017 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award[16][17]
- 2022 Elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society[3]
Selected publications
- Frank Schindler; Ashley M Cook; Maia G Vergniory; Zhijun Wang; Stuart Parkin; Andrei Bernevig; Titus Neupert (1 June 2018). "Higher-order topological insulators". Science Advances. 4 (6): eaat0346. arXiv:1708.03636. doi:10.1126/SCIADV.AAT0346. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 5983919. PMID 29869644. Wikidata Q55280643.
- Barry Bradlyn; Luis Elcoro; Jennifer Cano; M G Vergniory; Zhijun Wang; Claudia Felser; Mois Ilia Aroyo; B Andrei Bernevig (1 July 2017). "Topological quantum chemistry". Nature. 547 (7663): 298–305. arXiv:1703.02050. doi:10.1038/NATURE23268. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 28726818. Wikidata Q59066613. (erratum)
- Barry Bradlyn; Jennifer Cano; Zhijun Wang; M G Vergniory; C Felser; R J Cava; B Andrei Bernevig (21 July 2016). "Beyond Dirac and Weyl fermions: Unconventional quasiparticles in conventional crystals". Science. 353 (6299): aaf5037. arXiv:1603.03093. doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.AAF5037. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 27445310. Zbl 1355.81174. Wikidata Q53057429.
References
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