Athena Sefat | |
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Born | 1977 Iran |
Alma mater | McMaster University (BS, PhD) |
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Thesis | Magnetic and electronic transitions in neodymium(1-x) titanium oxide: A study of correlation effects (2005) |
Athena Safa Sefat, born 1977 in Iran[1] is a Canadian/American physicist, with research focus on quantum materials and correlated phenomena.[2] She was a senior scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and led the DOE Basic Energy Science on "Probing Competing Chemical, Electronic, and Spin Correlations for Quantum Materials Functionality". She is currently a Program Manager at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, with Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering.[3]