Jenny Hoffman

Hoffman completed her PhD in Physics at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003, with Prof. Séamus Davis using scanning tunneling microcopy to investigate electronic ordered states in the high-Tc cuprate superconductor Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+x . She was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Kathryn Moler at Stanford University, where she used magnetic force microscopy to investigate vortex pinning in superconductors. Hoffman joined the faculty in the Physics Department at Harvard University in 2005. At Harvard, her research combines atomic layer-by-layer growth and atomic resolution imaging of materials, to uncover new physics and applications inaccessible via bulk synthesis and probes. Her group has used molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), and magnetic force microscopy (MFM) to synthesize, image, and manipulate electron pairing and vortex pinning in high-Tc superconductors, the metal-insulator transition in VO 2 , and the band structure of the topological materials such as SmB 6 . Recently, they have used acoustic metamaterials as a test ground to understand, invent, and prototype new quantum materials. Hoffman is the recipient of several awards, including the United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Sloan Fellowship, the Radcliffe Fellowship, the Moore Foundation Experimental Investigator Award, the Canada Excellence Research Chair, and most recently the Clowes Professorship of Science at Harvard University.