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Andrea Damascelli

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Quantum Materials

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University of British Columbia Profile

About

Andrea Damascelli is a quantum physicist who uses spectroscopic techniques, including time-, spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and resonant elastic X-ray scattering (REXS) to study the low-energy electronic structure of quantum materials. He is director of the Quantum Matter Institute at UBC.

Awards

  • Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, 2015
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2014
  • F.W. Bessel Research Award, Humboldt Foundation, 2012
  • E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, NSERC, 2011
  • Sloan Research Fellowship, A.P. Sloan Foundation, 2007

Relevant Publications

  • Ludbrook, B.M. et al. “Evidence for superconductivity in Li-decorated monolayer graphene.” PNAS 112 (2015): 11795.

  • Comin, R. et al. ”Broken translational and rotational symmetry via charge stripe order in underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+y.” Science 347 (2015): 1335.

  • da Silva Neto, E.H. et al. “Charge ordering in the electron-doped superconductor Nd2-xCexCuO4.” Science 347 (2015): 282.

  • Veenstra, C.N. et al. “Spin-orbital entanglement and the breakdown of singlets and triplets in Sr2RuO4 revealed by spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (2014): 127002.

  • Comin, R. et al. “Charge ordering driven by Fermi-arc instability in underdoped cuprates.” Science 343, no. 6169 (2014).

Institution

University of British Columbia

Department

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Education

  • PhD (Physics), University of Groningen
  • BSc (Physics), State University of Milan

Country

Canada

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