2016
L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Award for Nicola Spaldin
Prof. Nicola Spaldin, Chair of Materials Theory, has been selected as the 2017 L’Oréal-UNESCO “For Women in Science” Laureate for Europe. This award recognizes her groundbreaking multidisciplinary work predicting, describing and creating new materials that have switchable magnetic and ferroelectric properties.
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Article: "New Wonder Materials – From Lab Specimens to Everyday Items"
It was sixteen years ago that physicist Nicola Spaldin discovered a brand new class of materials: multiferroics. To this day, little more is known about them, even in academic circles. Yet they feature a number of indisputable qualities.
Multiferroics - multi-talented crystals
"Multiferroics - multi-talented crystals" article published by Tagesspiegel. (German only)