Natalia Perkins

Natalia Perkins
Professor, School of Physics and AstronomyContact
John T. Tate Hall Room 130-19 116 Church Street SeMinneapolis, MN 55455
Education
Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1997
M.S., Moscow State University, 1994
Scientific & Professional Societies
- Fellow, American Physical Society
My research is in the field of theoretical condensed matter physics. My goal is to understand properties of materials from fundamental microscopic basis. I am particularly interested in all kinds of phenomena observed in magnetic materials. In my work, I focus on developing and analyzing microscopic models of electronic systems with strong interplay between charge, spin, and orbital degrees of freedom, and geometric frustration. In particular, I am interested in understanding various unconventional quantum phases in correlated materials, e.g. quantum spin liquids. This is an exciting area of condensed matter physics with rapidly evolving fundamental concepts, discoveries of materials with intriguingly novel behaviors and high promise for useful applications.
Current Funding:
U.S. Department of Energy, Award No. DE-SC0018056
National Science Foundation, Award No. DMR-1929311
Honors and Awards
Fellow, American Physical Society, 2016
Advisees & Collaborators
Graduate students:
- Yang Yang (2017 - current)
- Wen-Han Kao (2019 - current)
- Kexin Feng (2019 - current)
- Susmita Singh (2019 - current)
- Swetlana Swarup (2020-current)
Post Doctoral Researchers:
- Peter Panagiotis Stavropoulos (2021-current)
Former Researchers and Students
Postdocs:
- Ioannis Rousochatzakis (2015-2018). Now Assistant Professor at Loughborough University, UK
- Gia-Wei Chern (2009-2012). Now Associate Professor at University of Virginia
Graduate students:
- Mengqun Li (2016 - Ph.D. 2020). Now Quantitative Strategist at a high-frequency trading firm Virtu Financial
- Jianlong Fu (2016 - Ph.D. 2019). Now Postdoctoral Fellow Hong Kong University
- Yuriy Sizyuk (2012 - Ph.D. 2017). Postdoctoral Fellow Iowa State University (2017-2019) Now Scientist at Doty Scientific in South Carolina
- Samuel Ducatman (2011 - Ph.D. 2017). Now high school teacher of physics in Minneapolis
- Eunsong Choi, (2009 - Ph.D. 2015). Now Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg LP
Master students:
- David Bosch (2017-2018). Now working at IntriCon Corporation
- Fulya Koc (2015-2016). Now Ph.D. student at Izmir Institute of Technology
- Chi-Huei Lin (2017-2018). Now working in semiconductor company TSNC, Taiwan
Undergraduate students:
- Jake Novotny (2016-2017). Now working at NVE Corporation specialized on spintronics and nanotechnology
- Craig Price (2010-2012). Ph.D. at Penn State University in 2018. Now Scientist Principal at BAE Systems (London)
- Aysel Shiralieva (2020-2021). Now Master student at École normale supérieure (Paris)