Dr. Monica Ciomaga Hatnean

Additional information

Monica Ciomaga Hatnean is Head of the Materials Discovery Laboratory, a synthesis and crystal growth facility hosted in the Department of Materials (D-MATL), at ETH Zürich. Monica is a Scientist (Chemist) working on synthesis, crystal growth and characterisation of various materials with interesting properties (see below the Research Interests section). Her research is placed at the interface between Materials Science, Solid State Chemistry and Condensed Matter Physics.

Research Interests

• Synthesis, crystal growth and characterisation of polycrystalline and single crystalline samples of various compounds (e.g. oxides, borides, chalcogenides, oxichalcogenide, intermetallics).
• Study of materials that exhibit interesting structural and physical properties. These materials belong to the following areas of research:
  • Exotic states of matter (e.g. skyrmionic materials, topological insulators, superconductors, etc).
  • Frustrated magnetism (e.g. pyrochlores, garnets, Shastry-Sutherland lattices, etc).
  • Multiferroic, ferroelectric and magnetoelectric materials (e.g. ferrites, manganites, etc).
  • 2D and other van der Waals materials (e.g. semiconductors, superconductors, etc).
  • Polymorphism, structural phase transitions, structural disorder and their effect on the physical properties of the material. 

Publications

A full and up-to-date list of Monica's publications (including number of citations) can be accessed on Web of Science Researcher Profiles, ORCID or Google Scholar.

Short CV

2021 - Present      Tenure Track Scientist Laboratory for Multiscale materials eXperiments, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland & Materials Discovery Laboratory, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2018 - 2021          Research Focused Assistant Professor (Permanent position, previously called Senior Research Fellow) Superconductivity and Magnetism Group, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

2013 - 2018          Research Fellow Superconductivity and Magnetism Group, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

2009 - 2012          Doctorate in Chemistry (Synthesis and study of Ga2 −xFexO3 compounds Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l’Etat Solide, Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France & Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

2007 - 2009          Master in Inorganic Chemistry (Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity of Inorganic and Radiochemical Compounds) Universitatea ”Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iasi, Romania

2008 - 2009          Research Master (Erasmus scholarship, Inorganic chemistry: from nano-systems to biological systems) Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

2003 - 2007          Bachelor in Chemistry (Technological Biochemistry) Universitatea ”Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, Iasi, Romania