Credentials
Education
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M.Sc. 1992
Ph.D. 1998 (cum laude)
Honors & Awards
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2005 – NSF-CAREER award, DMR #0447282
2006 – Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
2007 – Ames Laboratory Outstanding Mentor Award
2011 – Fellow of the American Physical Society “For high-resolution measurements of the London penetration depth of superconductors.”
2011 – Outstanding Referee for Journals of the American Physical Society
2013 – Iowa State University Mid-Career Achievement in Research Award
2020 – ISU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research
Areas of Expertise
- experimental and theoretical superconductivity, magnetism, nanoscience, low-temperature physics
- electronic and magnetic patterns, coexistence of quantum phases, quantum criticality
- effects of artificial disorder on properties of quantum materials
Research
Research Interests
- unconventional superconductivity, effects of a controlled disorder, coexistence of quantum long-range orders, quantum criticality, pattern formation in magnetic and electronic systems, nanoscale, vortex physics, experimental quantum informatics.
- Quantum computing, hardware for quantum computing
- Precision conventional and quantum sensing, thermodynamic, transport and magnetic measurements
Patents
- "Low resistivity contact to iron-pnictide superconductors", M. A. Tanatar, R. Prozorov, N. Ni, S. L. Bud'ko, and P. C. Canfield, Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., USA (2011) Patent Number: US20110212841A1