Leslie_Schoop

Leslie Schoop

Leslie Schoop

Materials chemist and academic

Leslie Mareike Schoop is a German materials chemist who is an associate professor at Princeton University. Her research considers the realization of new materials for quantum technologies. She has identified several new topological materials, including the non-toxic, air-stable topological semi-metal ZrSiS.[1]

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Early life and education

Schoop grew up in Germany close to the border with Belgium. She has said that her mother was a strong independent woman.[2] She was an undergraduate student at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universitaet in Mainz.[3] She completed her doctoral research at Princeton University, where she worked on exotic properties in condensed matter with Robert Cava.[4][5] She was unsure whether to pursue a career in academia or industry, and turned to her grandfather for her advice, who said, “You know, Leslie, money should never be a reason why you make a career decision. If you’re good at your job, the money will come”.[2]

Research and career

After her PhD, Schoop remained at Princeton for a postdoctoral position, during which she worked on superconductivity.[3] She was awarded a Minerva program fellowship and moved to the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research to work alongside Bettina Lotsch,[6] where she found the first non-toxic air-stable topological semi-metal, ZrSiS.[7]

In 2017, Schoop established her own research group at Princeton, where she identified new topological semimetals and predicted their crystal properties.[3] She was supported by the Beckman Foundation to investigate new magnetic topological materials low-power computation.[8]

In 2022, she identified a new quantum state in twisted bilayer tungsten ditelluride.[9] In confined electrons, twisted bilayer graphene are strongly correlated, forming one-dimensional linear arrays of conductive channels.[9] The observation of Luttinger liquids in two-dimensional materials was expected to be very challenging to achieve experimentally, but Schoop and co-workers observed it in a Moiré super lattice.[9]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

  • Large, non-saturating magnetoresistance in WTe2[14]
  • Dirac cone protected by non-symmorphic symmetry and three-dimensional Dirac line node in ZrSiS[7]
  • A new form of Ca3P2 with a ring of Dirac nodes[15]

References

  1. [1]
    Leslie Schoop publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. [2]
    "Schoop Wins 2020 Packard Fellowship | Princeton University Department of Chemistry". chemistry.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  3. [3]
    "Leslie Schoop to join Princeton Chemistry Faculty | Princeton University Department of Chemistry". chemistry.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  4. [4]
    Schoop, Leslie Mareike (2015). The search for superconductors through solid state chemistry. princeton.edu (PhD thesis). Princeton University. OCLC 910543837. ProQuest 1658219761.
  5. [5]
    "Cava Lab: Leslie Schoop". princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  6. [6]
    "Leslie Schoop Awarded Prestigious Minerva Fellowship | Princeton University Department of Chemistry". chemistry.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  7. [7]
    Leslie M Schoop; Mazhar N Ali; Carola Straßer; et al. (31 May 2016). "Dirac cone protected by non-symmorphic symmetry and three-dimensional Dirac line node in ZrSiS". Nature Communications. 7: 11696. arXiv:1509.00861. Bibcode:2016NatCo...711696S. doi:10.1038/NCOMMS11696. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 4895020. PMID 27241624. Wikidata Q36973991.
  8. [8]
    "Leslie Schoop". Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  9. [9]
    "Wu/Schoop/Cava reveal new quantum state in novel material | Princeton University Department of Chemistry". chemistry.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  10. [10]
    "Investigator Detail". moore.org. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  11. [11]
    "2021 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD RECIPIENTS". 2021.
  12. [12]
    "Schoop Selected As a 2021 Sloan Fellow | Princeton University Department of Chemistry". chemistry.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  13. [13]
    "Jacobs, Schoop Receive NSF CAREER Awards | Princeton University Department of Chemistry". chemistry.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  14. [14]
    Mazhar N Ali; Jun Xiong; Steven Flynn; et al. (9 October 2014). "Large, non-saturating magnetoresistance in WTe2". Nature. 514 (7521): 205–8. arXiv:1405.0973. doi:10.1038/NATURE13763. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 25219849. Wikidata Q28247889.
  15. [15]
    Lilia S. Xie; Leslie M. Schoop; Elizabeth M. Seibel; Quinn D. Gibson; Weiwei Xie; Robert J. Cava (August 2015). "A new form of Ca3P2 with a ring of Dirac nodes". APL Materials. 3 (8): 083602. arXiv:1504.01731. doi:10.1063/1.4926545. ISSN 2166-532X. Wikidata Q59654355.
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