Prof. Dr. Aharon Kapitulnik

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsExperimental Condensed Matter Physics
Keywordscorrelated electrons, superconductivity, magnetism, phase-transitions, precision-measurements

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityStanford
InstitutionStanford University
InstituteApplied Physics and Physics, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, McCullough Building

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Matthias WuttigI. Physikalisches Institut, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), Aachen
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2012

Programme(s)

2011Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Kapitulnik is an international authority in the physics of conventional and unconventional superconductors and strongly correlated electron systems. He has developed many novel techniques to aid in their investigation. Professor Kapitulnik has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of high temperature superconductivity and has recently identified a new superconducting state which breaks time reversal symmetry. In Germany he plans to investigate the influence of disorder on metallic conductivity and superconducting properties.