Silke Bühler-Paschen

Silke Bühler-Paschen is an Austrian solid-state physicist and has been professor for engineering physics at TU Wien, Austria since 2005.[1]

Silke Bühler-Paschen
EducationGraz University of Technology (Diploma, 1992)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (PhD, 1995)
Scientific career
Fieldssolid-state physics
InstitutionsTU Wien

Education

Bühler-Paschen studied physics at Graz University of Technology and earned her diploma in 1992.[1] In 1995 she earned her PhD with her thesis titled "Electron transport in polymer composites" at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.[2]

Career

Bühler-Paschen worked as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich between 1995 and 1998 and as a group leader at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden starting in 1999, where she also became an assistant professor in 2003.[1][3] In 2005, Bühler-Paschen became the first female full professor of physics at TU Wien,[3] and she became chair of the institute for solid state physics in 2007.[4]

Bühler-Paschen served as visiting professor at Nagoya University in 2001/2002[5] and at Rice University in 2016/2017.[6] She served on the ERC Starting Grant peer review panel in Condensed Matter Physics in 2019.[7] Bühler-Paschen's research was funded by the European Research Council[8] and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).[9] She studied complex metallic alloys within an EU-funded "Network of Excellence".[10][11] Bühler-Paschen is on the Low Temperature Section board of Heidelberg University's Condensed Matter Division,[12] as well as the board of European Forum Alpbach[13] and the advisory board of the low-temperature research institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.[14] She was also on the European Physical Society's EPS Condensed Matter Board in 2019.[15]

Research

Bühler-Paschen studies new materials, typically by growing high-quality single crystals, which are then characterized for their structure and composition, and whose physical properties are typically measured at low temperatures.[10] Bühler-Paschen's research focuses on strongly correlated and thermoelectric materials. She studies magnetism and superconductivity in heavy fermion systems, as well as materials exhibiting the thermoelectric effect.[16]

During her time in Dresden, Bühler-Paschen's research started to focus on materials with cage-like crystal structures called clathrates with respect to their potential applications as thermoelectrics.[3] Later, she discovered how the temperature-dependent rattling behavior of caged cerium atoms in such clathrates can stabilize the Kondo effect at unusually high temperatures,[17] as well as the first observed collapse of the Kondo effect due to three-dimensional quantum fluctuations.[18]

Bühler-Paschen contributed to the first identification of Weyl fermions in a strongly correlated Weyl-Kondo semimetal.[19] She realized the individual toggling of different electronic degrees of freedom in correlated electron systems.[20][21] Bühler-Paschen investigated metallic materials whose electrical resistance exhibits unusual behavior with varying temperatures, which is related to superconductivity and based on quantum-critical charge fluctuations.[22][23][24][25][26][27][28]

Awards and honors

Personal life

Bühler-Paschen grew up living in Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria. She practiced gymnastics between the ages of 8 to 18 and was discovered as a model at the age of 14.[4] She has three children and her husband is also a physicist.[5]

References
  1. "Silke Bühler-Paschen - junge Physikprofessorin mit "drive"". May 24, 2005. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  2. ""Electron transport in polymer composites". EPFL. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  3. "Movers - Silke Bühler-Paschen, professor, Technical University of Vienna". Nature. October 20, 2004. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  4. "Physikerin, Model, Turnerin". science.ORF.at. August 7, 2012. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  5. "Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Silke Bühler-Paschen". FEMtech. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  6. "Silke Buehler-Paschen". Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  7. "ERC Starting Grant Panel 2019 - Members of the ERC Peer Review Panels" (PDF). Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  8. "Quantum Criticality - The Puzzle of Multiple Energy Scales". Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  9. "DFG - GEPRIS - Nanostructured Transition-Metal Clathrates and Clathrate-Oxide Nanocomposites". Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  10. "Lise Meitners Töchter Physikerinnen stellen sich vor" (PDF). German Physical Society & Austrian Physical Society. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  11. "Final Report Summary - CMA (Complex Metallic Alloys)". Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  12. "Low Temperature Section Board members". Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  13. "Dr. Silke Bühler-Paschen - Vorstand, Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Wien". Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  14. "Research projects and institutes - Advisory Board: Walther-Meißner-Institut für Tieftemperaturforschung". Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  15. "2019 Composition of the EPS Condensed Matter Board". Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  16. "Silke Bühler-Paschen". January 15, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  17. "Creating electricity with caged atoms". October 29, 2013. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  18. "Wie Elektronen Party feiern". January 8, 2012. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  19. "A Particle Like Slow Light". December 22, 2017. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  20. "Switching electron properties on and off individually". August 22, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  21. "Switching electron properties on and off individually". August 22, 2019. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  22. "Direct Evidence of Entanglement's Role in Quantum Criticality Found in 'Strange Metal'". SciTechDaily. January 16, 2020. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  23. "Turn and face the strange". Materials Today. January 29, 2020. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  24. "A new look at 'strange metals'". innovation report. January 21, 2020. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  25. "Ein neuer Blick auf "seltsame Metalle"". APA-Science. January 16, 2020. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  26. "A new look at 'strange metals'". EurekAlert! AAAS. January 16, 2020. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  27. "Physicists Finally Observe a Link Between Quantum Criticality And Entanglement". January 20, 2020. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  28. "A new look at 'strange metals'". January 20, 2020. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  29. "Silke Bühler-Paschen wird Fellow der APS". October 12, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  30. "APS Fellow Archive - Initial B". Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  31. "APS Physics - Division of Condensed Matter Physics - APS Fellowship". Retrieved March 18, 2020.
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