Maria Iavarone is an Italian and American condensed matter physicist who uses scanning tunneling spectroscopy and scanning probe microscopy to investigate the quantum properties of nanomaterials and superconductors. [1] She is a professor of physics and chair of the Department of Physics at Temple University. [2]
After receiving her Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Naples Federico II, Iavarone worked as a research scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory from 2001 to 2009. She moved to Temple University in 2010, as an associate professor. [3] She became department chair in 2024. [4]
She was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2021, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for outstanding and pioneering studies of spatially resolved electronic structure in broken symmetry states". [5]