Alessandra Lanzara

Alessandra Lanzara is an Italian-American physicist and the distinguished Charles Kittel Professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley [1] since 2002, where she leads an experimental materials physics group. She is an elected fellow of the American Physical Society since 2008 and in 2015 she was identified as one of the 'Leading Scientists of the World' by the International biographical center in Cambridge. She is known for her original contribution to the field of high temperature superconductivity and two dimensional materials.

Alessandra Lanzara
NationalityItalian, US
Alma materUniversity of Rome La Sapienza
Scientific career
FieldsCondensed Matter Physics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Lanzara is the founder and director of the Center for Sustainable Innovation at UCB and the elected Chair of the Far West session of the American Physical Society. She also holds several joint faculty appointments with: the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[2] where she directs the Ultrafast Materials Program; with the Applied Science and Technology Department and the Kavli Energy Nanosciences Institute (ENSI).[3] at UCB.

She sits in the Faculty Advisory Board of the Lawrence Hall of Science and has served in the Science Policy Group of the US Presidential Campaign in 2016. She has also been invited to serves in prestigious Scientific Board such as the Scientific Advisory Council of the Advanced Light Source and of the Materials Science Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and in the Scientific Advisory Board of the CNR (National Research Council), the largest research council in Italy.

Training

Lanzara obtained her Laurea in physics (equivalent to an M.S., 1994) and doctorate in Physics and Materials Sciences (1999) from the University of Rome La Sapienza in Italy. Lanzara subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship appointment at Stanford University until 2002.

In 2002, Lanzara joined UC Berkeley Physics Department as assistant professor and was promoted associated professor with tenure in 2006. She advanced to Full Professor in 2011.

Technology Transfer

Lanzara holds 4 international patents and is the cofounder of QuAD - Quantum Advanced Detection, a company that develops and manufactures high efficiency detection systems for manufacturing process control technology.

Research

Lanzara's team executes experiments at the frontiers of condensed matter physics towards understanding the behavior of novel quantum materials and to use light to manipulate materials and create new phases of matter.

She is best known for exploring limits where the conventional understanding of the behavior of electrons in materials begins to break-down, leading to groundbreaking discoveries such as the discovery of spin momentum locking and electron-phonon interaction in high-temperature superconductors, symmetry breaking in graphene, to optical control of spin photocurrents in topological insulators. She is also known for developing a new synthesis method that has enabled the synthesis of large wafers of graphene and engineering of its bandage, critical for any electronic applications.

She is also recognized for advancing the experimental technique of angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy to the time and spin realm, by pioneering a new way to image the electron spin, thus providing a leap in understanding topological phases of matter and quantum information science.

Awards
  • Bakar Faculty Fellow, 2019
  • Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, 2018
  • Ralph O. Simmons Distinguished Lecture, University Urbana Champaign, 2017
  • Earnest Kempton Adams Distinguished Lecture, Columbia University, 2017
  • Fibonacci Prize, 2016 
  • Listed in American Men and Women of Science and Who's Who in America, 2016
  • Women at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Award, 2015
  • Centennial Opening Lecture of the Italian Physical Society, 2014
  • Hallbach Award 2013
  • ROSA Canova Award, 2010
  • Marie Goeppert-Mayer Award of the American Physical Society, 2009
  • Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2008
  • David A. Shirley Award, 2007                                     
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment Award, 2005
  • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow Award, 2005
  • Hellman Family Faculty Fund Award, 2004                                               
  • National Science Foundation Career Award, 2005
  • W. McMillan Award, 2005
  • Marcello Conversi Award: Outstanding Thesis Award, 1995

Notable publications
  • Lanzara, Alessandra; Vishwanath, Ashvin; Hussain, Zahid; Eisaki, Hiroshi; Jozwiak, Christopher; Smallwood, Christopher L.; Zhang, Wentao; Serbyn, Maksym; Lin, Chiu-Yun (2018-12-14). "Revealing hidden spin-momentum locking in a high-temperature cuprate superconductor". Science. 362 (6420): 1271–1275. Bibcode:2018Sci...362.1271G. doi:10.1126/science.aao0980. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 30545882.
  • Lanzara, A.; Lee, D.-H.; Neto, A. H. Castro; A. K. Schmid; Gabaly, F. El; Fedorov, A. V.; Siegel, D. A.; Zhou, S. Y. (April 2008). "Origin of the energy bandgap in epitaxial graphene". Nature Materials. 7 (4): 259–260. arXiv:0804.1818. Bibcode:2008NatMa...7..259Z. doi:10.1038/nmat2154b. ISSN 1476-4660.
  • Lanzara, A.; Neto, A. H. Castro; Guinea, F.; Lee, D.-H.; de Heer, W. A.; First, P. N.; Fedorov, A. V.; Gweon, G.-H.; Zhou, S. Y. (October 2007). "Substrate-induced bandgap opening in epitaxial graphene". Nature Materials. 6 (10): 770–775. arXiv:0709.1706. Bibcode:2007NatMa...6..770Z. doi:10.1038/nmat2003. ISSN 1476-4660. PMID 17828279.
  • Lanzara, Alessandra; Orenstein, Joseph; Lee, Dung-Hai; Eisaki, Hiroshi; Koralek, Jake D.; Zhang, Wentao; Jozwiak, Christopher; Hinton, James P.; Smallwood, Christopher L. (2012-06-01). "Tracking Cooper Pairs in a Cuprate Superconductor by Ultrafast Angle-Resolved Photoemission". Science. 336 (6085): 1137–1139. arXiv:1206.2300. Bibcode:2012Sci...336.1137S. doi:10.1126/science.1217423. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 22654053.
  • Lanzara, Alessandra; Louie, Steven G.; Fedorov, Alexei V.; Deslippe, Jack; Hwang, Choongyu; Park, Cheol-Hwan; Siegel, David A. (2011-07-12). "Many-body interactions in quasi-freestanding graphene". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (28): 11365–11369. arXiv:1106.5822. Bibcode:2011PNAS..10811365S. doi:10.1073/pnas.1100242108. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 3136305. PMID 21709258.
  • Miller, Tristan L.; Zhang, Wentao; Eisaki, Hiroshi; Lanzara, Alessandra (2017-02-27). "Particle-Hole Asymmetry in the Cuprate Pseudogap Measured with Time-Resolved Spectroscopy". Physical Review Letters. 118 (9): 097001. arXiv:1703.03884. Bibcode:2017PhRvL.118i7001M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.097001. PMID 28306293.
  • Lanzara, Alessandra; Shen, Zhi-Xun; Lee, Dung-Hai; Hussain, Zahid; Robert J. Birgeneau; Rotundu, Costel R.; Kemper, Alexander F.; Gotlieb, Kenneth; Sobota, Jonathan A. (2016-10-14). "Spin-polarized surface resonances accompanying topological surface state formation". Nature Communications. 7: 13143. arXiv:1609.01842. Bibcode:2016NatCo...713143J. doi:10.1038/ncomms13143. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 5067600. PMID 27739428.
  • Lanzara, Alessandra; Orenstein, Joseph; Lee, Dung-Hai; Eisaki, Hiroshi; Koralek, Jake D.; Zhang, Wentao; Jozwiak, Christopher; Hinton, James P.; Smallwood, Christopher L. (2012-06-01). "Tracking Cooper Pairs in a Cuprate Superconductor by Ultrafast Angle-Resolved Photoemission". Science. 336 (6085): 1137–1139. arXiv:1206.2300. Bibcode:2012Sci...336.1137S. doi:10.1126/science.1217423. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 22654053.
  • Siegel, David A.; Regan, William; Fedorov, Alexei V.; Zettl, A.; Lanzara, Alessandra (2013-04-02). "Charge-Carrier Screening in Single-Layer Graphene". Physical Review Letters. 110 (14): 146802. arXiv:1304.5837. Bibcode:2013PhRvL.110n6802S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.146802. PMID 25167021.

Patents

1. Versatile spin-polarized electron source

    Patent N: 9142634, September 22, 2015

    Patent N: US2011223094-A1;

    C. Jozwiak, C. H. Park, K. Gotlieb, S. G. Louie, Z. Hussain, A. Lanzara

2. Method for Synthesis of high-quality graphene

    U.S Patent No. 8142754, March 27, 2012

    Patent N: US2011223094-A1; US8142754-B2-  Issued March 27, 2012

A. Lanzara, A. K. Schmid, X. Yu, C. Hwang, A. Kohl, C. Jozwiak

3. Time-of-flight electron energy analyzer”

    U.S Application No. 20130126727, May 23, 2013

    Patent N: WO2011019457- A1; US2013126727-A1

    C. Jozwiak, Z. Hussain, A. Lanzara, G. V. Lebedev, A. K. Schmid, N. C. Andesen, J. Graf.

References
  1. "Alessandra Lanzara | UC Berkeley Physics". physics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  2. "Alessandra Lanzara". www2.lbl.gov. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  3. "Kavli ENSI | Energy NanoScience Institute".
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