Biography:Christian Pfleiderer

Christian Pfleiderer (born 1965) is a German professor of experimental physics at the Technical University of Munich where he specializes in experimental solid state physics. He is a recipient of the Max Born Medal and Prize (2016) and Europhysics Prize (2016).

Education

Pfleiderer studied physics at the University of Tübingen and the University of Denver. From 1990 to 1994 he attended the University of Cambridge from which he obtained his Ph.D. in 1994. Following graduation, he worked as a postdoc at the Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission in Grenoble until 1996 and then headed Helmholtz junior university's group of researchers in Karlsruhe. In 2004 he was appointed associate professor of magnetic materials and in 2014 full professor of topology of correlated systems at the Technical University of Munich.

Career

In 2009 Christian Pfleiderer led a group of researchers and collaborated with research scientists from the University of Chicago, the University of Tokyo, the University of Cologne and Minhyea Lee of Princeton University to study brownleeite. His findings on the study of skyrmion lattice in chiral magnetic effect were published in Science in February 2009.

In 2019, he along with Jan Spallek, Tomek Schulz and Alexander Regnat had developed a magnetic cooling system that can bring the cooling temperature of an overheated computer to almost absolute zero.

Awards

• Max Born Prize (2016)
• Europhysics Prize (2016) (shared with Peter Böni)

External links

• Christian Pfleiderer publications indexed by Google Scholar