Alessandra Lanzara

Alessandra Lanzara is the Charles Kittel Chair in Physics at the University of California Berkeley and a Faculty Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab. Her research interests lie on the frontier aspects of condensed matter physics, motivated by the study of emergent properties in quantum materials. She is also a pioneer in pushing the frontier of photoemission spectroscopy to the time and spin realm, with the development of a novel concept of electron analyzer for spin detection and high resolution time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies on correlated materials.

Lanzara has been honored as a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Italian Physical Society. Among other awards, she has received the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award from the American Physical Society, the McMillan Award; and the “Leading Scientist of the World” award by the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England.

She joined the Berkeley faculty after conducting post-doctoral research at Stanford University and earning her PhD in Solid State Physics from the University of Rome.