Leslie Schoop

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Leslie Schoop
Born
Leslie Mareike Schoop
NationalityGerman, American
Alma mater Princeton University
University of Mainz
Awards National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2022)
Beckman Young Investigators Award (2019)
Scientific career
Fields Materials Science
Solid-state chemistry
Solid-state physics [1]
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Thesis The search for superconductors through solid state chemistry  (2015)
Doctoral advisor Robert Cava
Other academic advisors Bettina Lotsch
Website schoop.princeton.edu OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Leslie Mareike Schoop is a German-American materials chemist who is an associate professor at Princeton University. Her research considers the realization of new materials for quantum technologies. She has identified several new topological materials, including ZrSiS, a non-toxic, air-stable topological semi-metal. [1]

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Early life and education

Schoop grew up in Germany close to the border with Belgium. She has said that her mother was a strong independent woman. [2] She was an undergraduate student at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universitaet in Mainz. [3] She completed her doctoral research at Princeton University, where she worked on exotic properties in condensed matter with Robert Cava. [4] [5] She was unsure whether to pursue a career in academia or industry, and turned to her grandfather for her advice, who said, “You know, Leslie, money should never be a reason why you make a career decision. If you’re good at your job, the money will come”. [2]

Research and career

After her PhD, Schoop remained at Princeton for a postdoctoral position, during which she worked on superconductivity. [3] She was awarded a Minerva program fellowship and moved to the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research to work alongside Bettina Lotsch, [6] where she found the first non-toxic air-stable topological semi-metal, ZrSiS. [7]

In 2017, Schoop established her own research group at Princeton, where she identified new topological semimetals and predicted their crystal properties. [3] She was supported by the Beckman Foundation to investigate new magnetic topological materials low-power computation. [8]

In 2022, she identified a new quantum state in twisted bilayer tungsten ditelluride. [9] In confined electrons, twisted bilayer graphene are strongly correlated, forming one-dimensional linear arrays of conductive channels. [9] The observation of Luttinger liquids in two-dimensional materials was expected to be very challenging to achieve experimentally, but Schoop and co-workers observed it in a Moiré super lattice. [9]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 Leslie Schoop publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. 1 2 3 "Schoop Wins 2020 Packard Fellowship | Princeton University Department of Chemistry". chemistry.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  3. 1 2 3 "Leslie Schoop to join Princeton Chemistry Faculty | Princeton University Department of Chemistry". chemistry.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  4. ↑ Schoop, Leslie Mareike (2015). The search for superconductors through solid state chemistry. princeton.edu (PhD thesis). Princeton University. OCLC   910543837. ProQuest   1658219761.
  5. ↑ "Cava Lab: Leslie Schoop". princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  6. 1 2 "Leslie Schoop Awarded Prestigious Minerva Fellowship | Princeton University Department of Chemistry". chemistry.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  7. 1 2 Leslie M Schoop; Mazhar N Ali; Carola Straßer; et al. (31 May 2016). "Dirac cone protected by non-symmorphic symmetry and three-dimensional Dirac line node in ZrSiS". Nature Communications . 7: 11696. arXiv: 1509.00861 . Bibcode:2016NatCo...711696S. doi:10.1038/NCOMMS11696. ISSN   2041-1723. PMC   4895020 . PMID   27241624. Wikidata   Q36973991.
  8. 1 2 "Leslie Schoop". Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  9. 1 2 3 "Wu/Schoop/Cava reveal new quantum state in novel material | Princeton University Department of Chemistry". chemistry.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  10. ↑ "Investigator Detail". moore.org. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  11. ↑ "2021 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD RECIPIENTS". 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-05-16. Retrieved 2025-04-16.
  12. ↑ "Schoop Selected As a 2021 Sloan Fellow | Princeton University Department of Chemistry". chemistry.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-11.[ permanent dead link ]
  13. ↑ "Jacobs, Schoop Receive NSF CAREER Awards | Princeton University Department of Chemistry". chemistry.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  14. ↑ Mazhar N Ali; Jun Xiong; Steven Flynn; et al. (9 October 2014). "Large, non-saturating magnetoresistance in WTe2". Nature . 514 (7521): 205–8. arXiv: 1405.0973 . doi:10.1038/NATURE13763. ISSN   1476-4687. PMID   25219849. Wikidata   Q28247889.
  15. ↑ Lilia S. Xie; Leslie M. Schoop; Elizabeth M. Seibel; Quinn D. Gibson; Weiwei Xie; Robert J. Cava (August 2015). "A new form of Ca3P2 with a ring of Dirac nodes". APL Materials . 3 (8): 083602. arXiv: 1504.01731 . doi:10.1063/1.4926545. ISSN   2166-532X. Wikidata   Q59654355.
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