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 (APS) “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
2025 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for "distinguished contributions to the fields of superconductivity and magnetism, particularly for significant advances in understanding basic properties of high-transition temperature cuprates, iron-based superconductors, and ferromagnetic nanoparticles. "
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
- materials for quantum informatic sciences
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