Prof. Dr. Andrey Zheludev

Andrey Zheludev’s research focus is on experimental studies of collective quantum states, excitations and phase transitions in quantum materials, particularly magnetic systems. The main tools are inelastic neutron scattering and neutron diffraction, as well as muon and optical spectroscopies.   Andrey Zheludev has been a Professor at the Laboratory for Solid State Physics in the Physics Department since 2009. He was born in 1969 in Moscow, Russia, and grew up in Vienna, Austria. He obtained his Master degree in 1991 at the P. L. Kapitza institute for Physical Problems and the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology in Russia. Andrey Zheludev earned his PhD in Physics, mention très honorable avec félicitations du jury, from the Université Joseph Fourier in  Grenoble, France, in 1995, having performed his doctoral reasearch at Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires. He joined Brookhaven National Laboratory in the USA 1995. In 2000 he received the Presidential Early Career award for his research on quantum magnetism. In 2001 he became Senior Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the USA. Between 2009 and 2010 he headed the Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Switzerland.