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]
Catherine Kallin | |
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Born | |
Academic background | |
Education | Langara College University of British Columbia (BSc) Harvard University (PhD) |
Thesis | Some Dynamic Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces (1984) |
Doctoral advisor | Bertrand Halperin |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Physicist |
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]
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]
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