Biography:Jenny Hoffman
Jenny Hoffman | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Harvard University |
| Known for | Quantum physics, Ultrarunning |
| Awards | Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching (2012)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Harvard University University of British Columbia |
| Thesis | High Temperature Superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy |
| Doctoral advisor | Séamus Davis |
| Personal information | |
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| Born | 7 January 1978 |
| Sport | |
| Event(s) | Ultramarathon |
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Jenny Hoffman is an American quantum physicist and professor at Harvard University. She is interested in nanoscale engineering and imaging of materials, using molecular beam epitaxy and scanning probe microscopy. Hoffman has received several awards for her research and teaching, including the 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers[2] and 2010 Sloan Research Fellowship.[3]
Early life and education
Hoffman became interested in physics as a child, inspired by her mother, who taught high school physics.[4] She studied physics at Harvard University, graduating in 1999 magna cum laude. Hoffman joined the University of California, Berkeley as a graduate student, working with Séamus Davis on the characterisation of Bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide.[5][6]
Research
Hoffman joined Stanford University as a postdoctoral research associate in Kathryn Moler's group.[7] In 2005 she joined Harvard University as an assistant professor. Hoffman's group use layer by layer growth and high-resolution imaging of molecules.[8] Using scanning tunneling spectroscopy they explained vortex pinning in high-temperature superconductors.[8] She is also interested in topological insulators and strongly correlated materials.[9] She has won several large research grants, from National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation and the Air Force Research Laboratory.[10][11] She has developed quasiparticle interference imaging and force microscopy to trigger electronic phase transitions.[12]
In 2015, Hoffman joined University of British Columbia as a Canada Excellence Research Chair.[13] The position was worth $10 million over seven years, enabling University of British Columbia to use atomic level 3D printing.[14][15] She returned to Harvard University after less than a year.[16]
Awards
In 2013, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study awarded her a fellowship to image complex oxides.[12]
Athletics
As an undergraduate at Harvard University, Hoffman rowed on the varsity crew team (lightweight). In her senior year, she began to run marathons, and has since taken up triathlons and ultramarathons.[17]
Hoffman won the national title in the USA Track & Field National Championship 24 Hour Run in 2014, 2015 and 2016,[18][19] and she was selected as the USATF athlete of the week in September 2016.[20] She competed on the gold medal-winning team at the IAU 24 Hour World Championships in Belfast, UK in July 2017.
In November 2023, Hoffman reportedly set a new record for the fastest known time for a woman to run across the United States.[21][22] She completed the journey from San Francisco to New York City , covering around 3,000 miles, in 47 days, 12 hours, and 35 seconds.
Personal records
- Marathon - 3:23:08 (Lowell, MA, 2021)
- 100 Miles - 15:26:51 (Milwaukee, WI, 2023)
- 24 Hour - 145.4868 miles (Milwaukee, WI, 2023)
References
- ↑ "Two professors win Fannie Cox Prize". 12 October 2012. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/10/two-professors-win-fannie-cox-prize/.
- ↑ date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} PR Release.pdf|"White House Announces 2005 Awards for Early Career Scientists and Engineers" (PDF). Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President. 2006-07-26. Retrieved 2018-11-12 – via Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin.
- ↑ "Past Fellows". https://sloan.org/past-fellows.
- ↑ "Interview - Jenny Hoffman". https://www.learner.org/courses/physics/scientist/transcripts/hoffman.html.
- ↑ "Jenny Hoffman". http://users.physics.harvard.edu/~jhoffman/index.php.
- ↑ "J.C. Seamus Davis Group". http://davisgroup.lassp.cornell.edu/.
- ↑ Inc., CoffeeCup Software. "Moler Group Members". https://web.stanford.edu/group/moler/people.html.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Jenny Hoffman Lab Research Scanning Tunneling Microscopy". http://hoffman.physics.harvard.edu/research.php.
- ↑ "Jennifer Hoffman - CIFAR : CIFAR" (in en-US). https://www.cifar.ca/profiles/jennifer-hoffman/.[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
- ↑ "Hoffman, Kim, Yacoby receive 2014 Moore Foundation Experimental Investigator Award in Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems | Harvard University Department of Physics". https://www.physics.harvard.edu/node/399.
- ↑ "Hoffman Lab Funding". http://hoffman.physics.harvard.edu/funding.php.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Jenny Hoffman" (in en). 2017-11-23. https://www.seas.harvard.edu/directory/jhoffman.
- ↑ "Our Campus: Fresh from Harvard, hotshot prof Jenny Hoffman adjusts to Point Grey". The Ubyssey. https://www.ubyssey.ca/features/fresh-from-harvard-jenny-hoffman-adjusts-to-ubc/.
- ↑ Bellett, Gerry. "Renowned Harvard quantum physicist joining UBC" (in en-ca). www.vancouversun.com. https://vancouversun.com/technology/Renowned+Harvard+quantum+physicist+joining/11170772/story.html.
- ↑ "Renowned quantum physicist Jennifer Hoffman comes to BC | Watch News Videos Online" (in en). https://globalnews.ca/video/2085910/renowned-quantum-physicist-jennifer-hoffman-comes-to-bc.
- ↑ "Quantum materials research chair leaves UBC after less than a year". https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/quantum-materials-research-chair-leaves-ubc-after-less-than-a-year/article29600035/.
- ↑ "Jenny Hoffman Adventures". http://users.physics.harvard.edu/~jhoffman/adventure.php?showthumbs=CompleteRaceList.
- ↑ "24 Hour Team | USA Ultra Running" (in en-US). http://www.usaultrarunning.com/24-hour-team/.
- ↑ "Hoffman Wins in USA Track & Field National Championship 24 Hour Run! | Harvard University Department of Physics". https://www.physics.harvard.edu/node/695.
- ↑ "USATF Athlete of the Week". 23 September 2016. http://www.legacy.usatf.org/News/Hoffman-s-three-peat-at-USATF-24-Hour-Championship.aspx.
- ↑ Milne, Keeley (2023-11-09). "Harvard physics professor destroys transamerica speed record" (in en-US). https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/harvard-physics-professor-destroys-transamerica-speed-record/.
- ↑ Lim, Megan (2023-11-10). "This physics professor ran 3,000 miles across America in record time". National Public Radio. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/10/1212383938/running-marathon-record-jenny-hoffman.
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