Joerg Schmalian
Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University
A513 Physics Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
phone 515.294.4745, email: schmalian@ameslab.gov
Education
| Ph. D., Physics, Freie University Berlin, Germany | 1993 |
| Undergraduate Diploma degree in physics, University Merseburg, Germany | 1990 |
Professional Appointments
| Visiting scientist, LEPES-CNRS, Grenoble, France | 1995 |
| Postdoctoral research associate and Visiting Research Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1997-1999 |
| Staff scientist, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK | |
| Associate Physicist, Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa | 1999-2002 |
| Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University | 1999-2002 |
| Physicist, Ames Laboratory and Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University | 2002-present |
Honors, Awards and Professional Activities
| Fellow, American Physical Society | 2006 |
| Member, Science Steering Committee, University of California's Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter, Assistant Scientific Secretary of the Aspen Center for Physics | 2006/07 |
| Member Aspen Center for Physics | 2005-2010 |
| Organizer, workshop on Complexity in correlated electron systems , Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC-Santa Barbara | 2005 |
| Organizer, workshop on Structure dynamics and correlations in glasses , Aspen Center for Physics | Summer 2005 |
| International Advisory Committee, Workshop on unconventional superconductivity , Miami | 2004 |
| Organizer, workshop on Self generated glasses and self-organization in many body systems , UC-San Diego | 2003 |
| Iowa State Foundation "Early Achievements in Research Award" | 2003 |
| "Research Innovation Award" of the Research Corporation | 2000 |
| ATLAS-Fellow of St. Catherine's College in the University of Oxford | 1999 |
| "Carl Ramsauer Research Award" of the Daimler Benz Corporation for outstanding PhD thesis research. | 1994 |
Selected Publications
M. Dzero, M. R. Norman, I. Paul, C. Pepin, J. Schmalian, Quantum critical end point for the Kondo volume collapse model, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 , 185701 (2006).
Jacob D. Stevenson, Joerg Schmalian, Peter G. Wolynes The Shapes of Cooperatively Rearranging Regions in Glass Forming Liquids , Nature-Physics 4 268 (2006).
Thomas Vojta and Jörg Schmalian, Percolation quantum phase transition in diluted magnets , Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 , 237206 (2005)
Jun Liu, Joerg Schmalian, Nandini Trivedi, Pairing and superconductivity driven by strong quasiparticle renormalization in two-dimensional organic charge transfer salts, Phys. Rev. Lett 94 , 127003 (2005).
Maxim Dzero, Joerg Schmalian, Superconductivity in charge Kondo systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 , 157003 (2005).
Thomas Vojta and Jörg Schmalian, Percolation quantum phase transition in diluted magnets , Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 , 237206 (2005)
Thomas Vojta and Jörg Schmalian, Quantum Griffiths effects in itinerant Heisenberg magnets , Phys. Rev. B 72 , 045438 (2005) [featured in: Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology 12 issue 4 (2005)].
Materials Chemistry and
Biomolecular Materials Program
Ames Laboratory
Iowa State University
142 Spedding Hall
Ames, IA 50011 USA
Phone: 1.515.294.7568
FAX: 1.515.294.4709
