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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2020 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For the prediction and discovery of engineered quantum materials ranging from Heusler compounds to topological insulators.
  • 2018 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Chemistry
  • 2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For creating and understanding new Heusler materials with spintronic and energy functionalities

Overview

Claudia Felser is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields, with a strong focus on both Psychology and Physics and Astronomy.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Topological Materials and Phenomena
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
  • Language Development and Disorders

In terms of specialized subfields, their contributions cover:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Materials Chemistry

The scientist has published in a variety of academic venues, frequently contributing to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Languages
  • Physical Review B
  • The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
  • Glossa a journal of general linguistics

Selected recent publications illustrate the breadth of their research interests:

  • "Island effects in Spanish comprehension," 2020, Glossa a journal of general linguistics
  • "Observation of a phase transition within the domain walls of ferromagnetic Co3Sn2S2," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Effects of chronological age on native and nonnative sentence processing: Evidence from subject-verb agreement in German," 2020, Journal of Memory and Language
  • "Probing the Shape of the Weyl Fermi Surface of NbP Using Transverse Electron Focusing," 2024, Physical Review Letters
  • "Discourse Prominence and Antecedent Mis-Retrieval during Native and Non-Native Pronoun Resolution," 2022, Discours

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Sina Bosch
  • Maia G. Vergniory
  • Ilaria De Cesare
  • Ulrike Demske
  • Vicky Hasse

Throughout their career, Claudia Felser has received several distinctions, including:

  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2020)
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2020) for the prediction and discovery of engineered quantum materials ranging from Heusler compounds to topological insulators
  • German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (2018), Chemistry
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (2012), recognized for creating and understanding new Heusler materials with spintronic and energy functionalities

Best Publications

  • Simple rules for the understanding of Heusler compounds

    Tanja Graf;Claudia Felser;Stuart S.P. Parkin

  • Grammatical Processing in Language Learners.

    Harald Clahsen;Claudia Felser

  • Topological Materials: Weyl Semimetals

    Binghai Yan;Claudia Felser

  • Topological quantum chemistry

    Barry Bradlyn;L. Elcoro;Jennifer Cano;M. G. Vergniory;M. G. Vergniory;M. G. Vergniory

  • Weyl Semimetals as Hydrogen Evolution Catalysts

    Catherine R. Rajamathi;Uttam Gupta;Nitesh Kumar;Hao Yang

  • Negative magnetoresistance without well-defined chirality in the Weyl semimetal TaP

    Frank Arnold;Chandra Shekhar;Shu-Chun Wu;Yan Sun

  • Beyond Dirac and Weyl fermions: Unconventional quasiparticles in conventional crystals

    Barry Jason Bradlyn;Jennifer Cano;Zhijun Wang;M. G. Vergniory

  • Spintronics: a challenge for materials science and solid-state chemistry.

    Claudia Felser;Gerhard H. Fecher;Benjamin Balke

  • Electronic and magnetic phase diagram of β-Fe1.01Se with superconductivity at 36.7 K under pressure

    S. Medvedev;T. M. McQueen;I. A. Troyan;T. Palasyuk

  • Giant anomalous Hall effect in a ferromagnetic Kagomé-lattice semimetal.

    Enke Liu;Enke Liu;Yan Sun;Nitesh Kumar;Lukas Muechler

  • Extremely large magnetoresistance and ultrahigh mobility in the topological Weyl semimetal candidate NbP

    Chandra Shekhar;Ajaya K. Nayak;Yan Sun;Marcus Schmidt

  • Multiple Dirac cones at the surface of the topological metal LaBi

    Jayita Nayak;Shu-Chun Wu;Nitesh Kumar;Chandra Shekhar

  • Superconductivity at 36 K in beta-Fe1.01Se with the compression of the interlayer separation under pressure

    S. Medvedev;T.M. McQueen;I. Trojan;T. Palasyuk

  • Weyl semimetal phase in the non-centrosymmetric compound TaAs

    L. X. Yang;L. X. Yang;L. X. Yang;Z. K. Liu;Y. Sun;H. Peng

  • Superconductivity in Weyl semimetal candidate MoTe2

    Yanpeng Qi;Pavel G. Naumov;Mazhar N. Ali;Catherine R. Rajamathi

  • A complete catalogue of high-quality topological materials

    M. G. Vergniory;M. G. Vergniory;M. G. Vergniory;L. Elcoro;Claudia Felser;Nicolas Regnault

  • Tunable multifunctional topological insulators in ternary Heusler compounds

    Stanislav Chadov;Xiaoliang Qi;Xiaoliang Qi;Jürgen Kübler;Gerhard H. Fecher

  • Extreme sensitivity of superconductivity to stoichiometry in Fe 1+δ Se

    Tyrel M. McQueen;Qingzhen Huang;Vadim G. Ksenofontov;Claudia Felser

  • Calculated electronic and magnetic properties of the half-metallic, transition metal based Heusler compounds

    Hem C. Kandpal;Gerhard H. Fecher;Claudia Felser

  • Giant anomalous Hall effect in a ferromagnetic Kagome-lattice semimetal

    Enke Liu;Yan Sun;Nitesh Kumar;Lukas Meuchler

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin Balke
Benjamin Balke Fraunhofer IWKS
Stuart S. P. Parkin
Stuart S. P. Parkin Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
Walter Schnelle
Walter Schnelle Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Vadim Ksenofontov
Vadim Ksenofontov Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Martin Jansen
Martin Jansen Max Planck Society
Yulin Chen
Yulin Chen University of Oxford
Chenguang Fu
Chenguang Fu Zhejiang University
Robert Joseph Cava
Robert Joseph Cava Princeton University
Gerhard Jakob
Gerhard Jakob Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Wolfgang Tremel
Wolfgang Tremel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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