Catherine Kallin

Catherine Kallin is a Canadian theoretical quantum condensed matter physicist whose research topics have included spin wave theory, the quantum Hall effect, frustrated antiferromagnets, chirality in superconductors, and high-temperature superconductivity. She is a professor emerita of physics and astronomy at McMaster University.[1]

Education and career

Kallin is originally from Vancouver,[2] where she was an undergraduate at Langara College[3] and the University of British Columbia (UBC),[4] graduating from UBC in 1979.[5][6] She was turned off from physics in her high school education, but regained interest after taking a general-interest physics course at Langara.[3][7]

She completed her Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University in 1984.[4] Her dissertation, Some Dynamic Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces, was supervised by Bertrand Halperin.[6] After postdoctoral research at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she became an assistant professor at McMaster University in 1986.[4]

Recognition

In 1994, Kallin was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for contributions to the understanding of correlations between electrons in low-dimensional systems".[8]

Kallin was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1987.[9] She became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1996,[10] and was awarded the 1996 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.[7] Kallin was given a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Materials Theory in 2003, renewed in 2010.[11][12] She won a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2013,[13] and a Simons Fellowship in 2016, the only Canadian winner in that year.[2][5]

Langara College gave her their outstanding alumni award in 2016.[3]

References
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  7. Past Winner, 1996 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship: Catherine Kallin, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, retrieved 2021-02-01
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  9. "Sloan Foundation Awards 90 Grants", The New York Times, 19 April 1987
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  11. "Catherine Kallin, Canada Research Chair in Quantum Materials Theory", Canada Research Chairs, retrieved 2021-02-01
  12. "McMaster's newest Canada Research Chairs explore micro-machines, condensed matter physics, immunology", Daily News, McMaster University, 23 October 2003, retrieved 2021-02-01
  13. Van Dongen, Matthew (27 February 2013), "Mac professor earns national research fellowship", The Hamilton Spectator
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