Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Talk title: Magnetic multilayers: patterning functionality and adding functionality to patterned structures

Laura Heyderman began her career in magnetism in 1988, working on magnetic multilayers as a Bristol University PhD student at CNRS in Paris. As a postdoc using electron microscopy at Glasgow University, she observed magnetic domain configurations in a variety of materials. She then spent four years in industry in the UK and, since 1999, she has been based at the Paul Scherrer Institute. In January 2013, Laura Heyderman became Professor of Mesoscopic Systems at the Department of Materials, ETH Zurich. She is affiliated with the Laboratory for Multiscale Materials Experiments at the Paul Scherrer Institute, where she was Head of Laboratory from 2017 to 2022.

Laura Heyderman’s research concerns the development of lithography methods for the fabrication of structures and devices incorporating sub-micrometre magnets, as well as the development of novel large-scale facility methods for characterising their microscopic behaviour. The large-scale facility characterisation involves mainly synchrotron x-rays, but also low-energy muon spectroscopy and neutron scattering.