Fiona Burnell

Fiona J. Burnell (born 1979)[1] is a Canadian-American condensed matter physicist who studies exotic states of matter including fractional quantum Hall states and topological insulators.[2] She is Tang Family Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota,[3] and a quondam fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.[4]

Education and career

Burnell graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2002, and received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2009.[5] At Princeton, she was a student of Shivaji Sondhi.[6] Her dissertation was On exotic orders in strongly correlated systems.[7]

She was a postdoctoral researcher at All Souls College from 2009 to 2013,[5] and continues to be listed as a quondam fellow at All Souls.[4] She joined the University of Minnesota in 2013;[8] she became a full professor, and was appointed as the inaugural Tang Family Professor, in 2024.[3]

Recognition

Burnell was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2023, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for outstanding contributions toward the elucidation of exotic phases of matter, including topological phases that are not described by the conventional Landau classification based on broken symmetries".[9]

References

  1. ^ Burnell, F. J. (Fiona J.), 1979-, Library of Congress, retrieved 2025-01-01
  2. ^ Thomas, Rachel (23 November 2016), "The shape of things to come: part iii", Plus Magazine, retrieved 2025-01-01
  3. ^ a b "Burnell appointed to Tang Family Professorship", Spa Newsletter, University of Minnesota, Fall 2024, retrieved 2025-01-01
  4. ^ a b "Dr Fiona Burnell", People, All Souls College, Oxford, retrieved 2025-01-01
  5. ^ a b Fiona Burnell, University of Minnesota, retrieved 2025-01-01
  6. ^ Sondhi, Shivaji, Student/Postdoc info, Princeton University, retrieved 2025-01-01
  7. ^ Burnell, F. J. (2009), On exotic orders in strongly correlated systems (PhD thesis), Princeton University, retrieved 2025-01-01 – via ProQuest
  8. ^ UMN College of Science and Engineering welcomes 23 new faculty, University of Minnesota, 22 September 2013, retrieved 2025-01-01
  9. ^ APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2025-01-01