Dr Monica Ciomaga Hatnean

I worked firstly as a Research Fellow and then as a Research Focused Assistant Professor (previously called Senior Research Fellow) in the Superconductivity and Magnetism Group, from January 2013 to August 2021. I have extensive expertise in materials synthesis, crystal growth and materials characterisation techniques.

Overview of my research work

My research work involved the crystal growth and study of single crystals of various compounds (oxides, borides, chalcogenides and intermetallic magnetic and superconducting materials). The materials that I studied have a wide range of physical properties, from multiferroics and frustrated magnets to a variety of newly discovered exotic states of matter (Topological Insulators, Skyrmion lattices).

The investigation of the physics of all the materials that I produced at Warwick involved a wide range of techniques, including in house magnetic, thermodynamic and transport measurements, as well as the use of central facilities using X-ray diffraction, neutron scattering and muon spectroscopy techniques.

My research profile

From June 2018 to August 2021, I worked as a Research Focused Assistant Professor (previously called Senior Research Fellow) in the Superconductivity and Magnetism group. I initially joined the research group as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in January 2013, working jointly with Prof. Dr Geetha Balakrishnan, Prof. Dr Don McK. Paul, Dr Martin R. Lees and Dr Oleg A. Petrenko on various research projects.

I have previously completed a PhD in Chemistry at Paris-Sud University, Orsay, France in December 2012, under the joint supervision of Prof. Dr Loreynne Pinsard-Gaudart and Dr Habil. Sylvain Petit. I worked on the "Synthesis and study of the Ga_2-xFe_xO₃ compounds" at LPCES-ICMMO, Orsay and LLB, CEA-Saclay.

Research interests/highlights and expertise

Study of newly discovered states of matter, such as superconductors, topological insulators, skyrmion lattices. My contributions include growth and characterisation of single crystals of topological and Kondo insulators, SmB₆, Sm_1−xCe_xB₆, YbB₁₂and FeSi, superconductors, PdBi_x(x = 1 and 2) and Ru₇B₃, materials which exhibit a skyrmion lattice, Cu₂OSeO₃, GaV₄S₈and Co_10−xZn_10−yMn_x+y.
Study of magnetic materials, and in particular systems that exhibit puzzling magnetic behaviours. My contributions include the growth by the floating zone method of single crystals of rare earth zirconate, titanate and hafnate oxides, R₂M₂O₇(M = Zr, Ti, and Hf), garnets (Yb₃Ga₅O₁₂), rare earth tetraborides and hexaborides, RB₄and RB₆.
Study of layered metal chalcogenides with various physical properties, such as semiconductors, superconductors. My contributions include growth and characterisation of single crystals of the 2D ferromagnet Cr₂Ge₂Te₆, Mn₃Si₂Te₆ and the transition metal dichalcogenide VSe₂.
Study of the correlation between crystallographic structures and the physical properties of materials, from the investigation of polymorphism and phase transitions to design of materials in order to tune/enhance their properties. My contribution includes the growth by floating zone method of single crystals of rare earth disilicate compounds, R₂Si₂O₇(R = Ho, Er, and Tm) and characterisation of the different polymorphs exhibited by these materials.
Study of multiferroic compounds and materials that could exhibit magnetoelectric coupling, due to their possible applications in spintronics. My contributions include growth and study of ferromagnets such as R_1−xSr_xMnO₃(R = Pr, Nd), study of the physical properties and spin dynamics by inelastic neutron scattering in single crystals of the candidate magnetoelectric materials, Ga_2−xFe_xO₃ferrimagnets.
Determination of the crystallographic parameters, magnetic structure and spin dynamics of materials. My expertise in powder and single crystal X-ray and neutron diffraction, as well as inelastic neutron scattering techniques are of great importance for the understanding of the materials studied. I am a confident and advanced user of various software packages used to analyse the data collected.

Teaching

From 2018 to 2021, I have been running the teaching activities associated with the Microprocessors Laboratory, as part of the Physics Skills module for the 2^nd year undergraduate students. Details are available on the PX271 webpage.

List of Publications

A full and up-to-date list of all my publications (including number of citations) can be found by visiting the databases below.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2870-8847

My full list of publications, as of September 2021:

2021

57. Physical Review Materials 5, 094402 (2021).

"Absence of zero-field-cooled exchange bias effect in single crystalline La_2-xA_xCoMnO6 (A = Ca, Sr) compounds"

C. Macchiutti, J. R. Jesus, F. B. Carneiro, L. Bufaiçal, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, and E. M. Bittar.

56. Physical Review B 104, 064425 (2021).

"Emergent magnetic behavior in the frustrated Yb₃Ga₅O₁₂ garnet"

L. Ørduk Sandberg, R. Edberg, I.-M. Berg Bakke, K. S. Pedersen, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, L. Mangin-Thro, A. Wildes, B. Fåk, G. Ehlers, G. Sala, P. Henelius, K. Lefmann, and P. P. Deen.

55. Physical Review B 103, 214449 (2021).

"Field-temperature phase diagram of the enigmatic Nd₂(Zr_1-xTi_x)₂O₇ pyrochlore magnets"

M. Léger, E. Lhotel, E. Ressouche, K. Beauvois, F. Damay, C. Paulsen, A. Al-Mawla, E. Suard, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, and S. Petit.

54. Physical Review Letters 126, 247201 (2021).

"Spin Dynamics and Unconventional Coulomb Phase in Nd₂Zr₂O₇"

M. Léger, E. Lhotel, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, J. Ollivier, A. R. Wildes, S. Raymond, E. Ressouche, G. Balakrishnan, and S. Petit.

53. Physical Review B 103, 134434 (2021).

"Fragile ground state and rigid field-induced structures in the zigzag ladder compound BaDy₂O₄"

$_{D. D. Khalyavin, P. Manuel, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, and O. A. Petrenko.}$

52. Physical Review B 103, 134433 (2021).

"Magnetic structure and low-temperature properties of geometrically frustrated SrNd₂O₄"

$_{N. Qureshi, A. Wildes, C. Ritter, B. Fåk, S. X. M. Riberolles, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, and O. A. Petrenko.}$

51. Physical Review Materials 5, 055001 (2021).

"Bulk transport paths through defects in floating zone and Al flux grown SmB₆"

Y. S. Eo, A. Rakoski, S. Sinha, D. Mihaliov, W. T. Fuhrman, S. R. Saha, P. F. S. Rosa, Z. Fisk, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, J. R. Chamorro, W. Adam Phelan, S. M. Koohpayeh, T. M. McQueen, B. Kang, M.-s. Song, B. Cho, M. S. Fuhrer, J. Paglione, and Ç. Kurdak.

50. Acta Materialia 208, 116717 (2021).

"Characterising oxygen atoms in perovskite and pyrochlore oxides using ADF-STEM at a resolution of a few tens of picometers"

A. Mostaed, B. Walkley, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, M. R. Lees, R. Beanland, D. C. Sinclair, and I. M. Reaney.

49. Physical Review B 103, 024428 (2021).

"Megahertz dynamics in skyrmion systems probed with muon-spin relaxation"

T. J. Hicken, M. N. Wilson, K. J. A. Franke, B. M. Huddart, Z. Hawkhead, M. Gomilšek, S. J. Clark, F. L. Pratt, A. Štefančič, A. E. Hall, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, and T. Lancaster.

2020

48. Physical Review B 102, 205403 (2020).

"Surface analysis of the PrB₆ (001) cleavage plane by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy"

P. Buchsteiner, L. Harmsen, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, and M. Wenderoth.

47. iScience 23, 101632 (2020).

"Intrinsic bulk quantum oscillations in a bulk unconventional insulator SmB₆"

M. Hartstein, H. Liu, Y.-T. Hsu, B. S. Tan, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, and S. E. Sebastian.

46. Crystals 10, 827 (2020).

"Crystal growth by the floating zone method of Ce-substituted crystals of the topological Kondo insulator SmB₆"

M. Ciomaga Hatnean, T. Ahmad, M. Walker, M. R, Lees, and G. Balakrishnan.

45. Crystal Growth & Design 20, 6636-6648 (2020).

"Optical floating zone crystal growth of rare-earth disilicates, R₂Si₂O₇ (R = Er, Ho, and Tm)"

M. Ciomaga Hatnean, O. A. Petrenko, M. R, Lees, T. E. Orton, and G. Balakrishnan.

44. Physical Review B 102, 060407(R) (2020).

"Evolution of field-induced metastable phases in the Shastry-Sutherland lattice magnet TmB₄"

D. Lançon, V. Scagnoli, U. Staub, O. A. Petrenko, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, E. Canevet, R. Sibille, S. Francoual, J. R. L. Mardegan, K. Beauvois, G. Balakrishnan, L. J. Heyderman, Ch. Rüegg, and T. Fennell.

43. Physical Review B 101, 205125 (2020).

"Direct observation of the energy gain underpinning ferromagnetic superexchange in the electronic structure of CrGeTe₃"

M. D. Watson, I. Marković, F. Mazzola, A. Rajan, E. A. Morales, D. M. Burn, T. Hesjedal, G. van der Laan, S. Mukherjee, T. K. Kim, C. Bigi, I. Vobornik, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, and P. D. C. King.

42. Physical Review B 101, 155109 (2020).

"Comprehensive surface magnetotransport studies of SmB₆"

Y. S. Eo, S. Wolgast, A. Rakoski, D. Mihaliov, B. Y. Kang, M. S. Song, B. K. Cho, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, Z. Fisk, S. R. Saha, X. Wang, J. Paglione, and Ç. Kurdak.

41. Physical Review B 101, 035404 (2020).

"Proximity-induced ferromagnetism and chemical reactivity in few-layer VSe₂ heterostructures"

G. Vinai, C. Bigi, A. Rajan, M. D. Watson, T. -L. Lee, F. Mazzola, S. Modesti, S. Barua, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, P. D. C. King, P. Torelli, G. Rossi, and G. Panaccione.

2019

40. AIP Advances 9, 125228 (2019).

"Investigating the magnetic ground state of the skyrmion host material Cu₂OSeO₃ using long-wavelength neutron diffraction"

K. J. A. Franke, P. R. Dean, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, M. T. Birch, D. D. Khalyavin, P. Manuel, T. Lancaster, G. Balakrishnan, and P. D. Hatton.

39. Physical Review B 100, 205407 (2019).

"Surface resonance of the (2 x 1) reconstructed lanthanum hexaboride (001)-cleavage plane: A combined STM and DFT study"

P. Buchsteiner, F. Sohn, J. G. Horstmann, J. Voigt, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan,4 C. Ropers, P. E. Blöchl, and M. Wenderoth.

38. Review of Scientific Instruments 90, 103904 (2019).

"Modular thermal Hall effect measurement setup for fast-turnaround screening of materials over wide temperature range using capacitive thermometry"

H.-L. Kim, M. J. Coak, J. C. Baglo, K. Murphy, R. W. Hill, M. Sutherland, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, and J.-G. Park.

37. Physical Review B 100, 134102 (2019).

"Lattice dynamics and Raman spectrum of BaZrO₃ single crystals"

C. Toulouse, D. Amoroso, C. Xin, P. Veber, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, M. Maglione, P. Ghosez, J. Kreisel, and M. Guennou.

36. Physical Review B 100, 024518 (2019).

"Rotation of the magnetic vortex lattice in Ru₇B₃ driven by the effects of broken time-reversal and inversion symmetry"

A. S. Cameron, Y. S. Yerin, Y. V. Tymoshenko, P. Y. Portnichenko, A. S. Sukhanov, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, D. McK. Paul, G. Balakrishnan, R. Cubitt, A. Heinemann, and D. S. Inosov.

35. The European Physical Journal Special Topics 228, 703-712 (2019).

"Effect of different atmospheres on the synthesis of Ba₂CuGe₂O₇ single crystals"

V. Granata, L. Rocco, A. Ubaldini, M. R. Lees, R. Fittipaldi, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, S. Pace, G. Balakrishnan, and A. Vecchione.

34. Crystals 9, 211 (2019).

"Single Crystal Growth of Metallic Rare Earth Tetraborides by the Floating Zone Technique"

D. Brunt, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, O. A. Petrenko, M. R. Lees, and G. Balakrishnan.

33. CrystEngComm 21, 502-512 (2019).

"Investigation on BaZrO₃ single crystals grown at half its melting point temperature from flux and at 2700 C by optical floating zone techniques"

C. Xin, P. Veber, M. Guennou, C. Toulouse, N. Valle, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, R. Haumont, R. Saint Martin, M. Velazquez, A. Maillard, D. Rytz, M. Josse, M. Maglione, and J. Kreisel.

2018

32. Nature Communications 9, 3786 (2018).

"Evidence for dynamic kagome ice"

E. Lhotel, S. Petit, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, J. Ollivier, H. Mutka, E. Ressouche, M. R. Lees, and G. Balakrishnan.

31. Physical Review B 98, 054428 (2018).

"Magnetic phases of skyrmion-hosting GaV₄S_8−ySe_y (y=0,2,4,8) probed with muon spectroscopy"

K. J. A. Franke, B. M. Huddart, T. J. Hicken, F. Xiao, S. J. Blundell, F. L. Pratt, M. Crisanti, J. A. T. Barker, S. J. Clark, A. Štefančič, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, and T. Lancaster.

30. Nature Physics 14, 711-715 (2018).

"Experimental signatures of emergent quantum electrodynamics in Pr₂Hf₂O₇"
R. Sibille, N. Gauthier, H. Yan, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, J. Ollivier, B. Winn, U. Filges, G. Balakrishnan, M. Kenzelmann, N. Shannon, and T. Fennell.

29. Physical Review B 97, 134403 (2018).

"Direct observation of attractive skyrmions and skyrmion clusters in the cubic helimagnet Cu₂OSeO₃"

J. C. Loudon, A. O. Leonov, A. N. Bogdanov, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, and G. Balakrishnan.

28. Physical Review B 97, 134430 (2018).

"Manifolds of magnetic ordered states and excitations in the almost Heisenberg pyrochlore antiferromagnet MgCr₂O₄"

S. Gao, K. Guratinder, U. Stuhr, J. S. White, M. Mansson, B. Roessli, T. Fennell, V. Tsurkan, A. Loidl, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, S. Raymond, L. Chapon, V. O. Garlea, A. T. Savici, A. Cervellino, A. Bombardi, D. Chernyshov, Ch. Rüegg, J. T. Haraldsen, and O. Zaharko.

27. Nature Physics 14, 166 (2018).

"New route to a Fermi surface in the absence of a Fermi liquid: a Kondo insulator near the insulator-metal transition"
M. Hartstein, W. H. Toews, Y.-T. Hsu, B. Zeng, X. Chen, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, Q. R. Zhang, S. Nakamura, A. S. Padgett, G. Rodway-Gant, J. Berk, M. K. Kingston, G. H. Zhang, M. K. Chan, S. Yamashita, T. Sakakibara, Y. Takano, J.-H. Park, L. Balicas, N. Harrison, N. Shitsevalova, G. Balakrishnan, G. G. Lonzarich, R. W. Hill, M. Sutherland, and S. E. Sebastian.

26. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 30, 16LT01 (2018).

"Fermi surfaces in Kondo insulators"

H. Liu, M. Hartstein, G. J. Wallace, A. J. Davies, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, M. D. Johannes, N. Shitsevalova, G. Balakrishnan and S. E. Sebastian.

2017

25. Physical Review X 7, 041028 (2017).

"Disorder and Quantum spin ice"

N. Martin, P. Bonville, E. Lhotel, J. Robert, S. Guitteny, A. Wildes, C. Decorse, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, I. Mirebeau, and S. Petit.

* Acta Crystallographica A73, C827 (2017).

"Magnetic frustration in rare earth zirconate pyrochlores"

M. Ciomaga Hatnean, M. R. Lees, O. A. Petrenko and G. Balakrishnan.

* Acta Crystallographica A73, C826 (2017).

"Structural and magnetic investigations of new skyrmion phases"

G. Balakrishnan, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, A. Stefancic and M. R. Lees.

24. Scientific Reports 7, 10964 (2017).

"Signatures of the Kondo effect in VSe₂"

S. Barua, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, M. R. Lees, and G. Balakrishnan.

23. Nature Communications 8, 894 (2017).

"Coulomb spin liquid in anion-disordered pyrochlore Tb₂Hf₂O₇"

R. Sibille, E. Lhotel, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Nilsen, G. Ehlers, A. Cervellino, E. Ressouche, M. Frontzek, O. Zaharko, V. Pomjakushin, H. C. Walker, D. Adroja, H. Luetkens, C. Baines, A. Amato, G. Balakrishnan, T. Fennell, and M. Kenzelmann.

22. Physical Review B 95, 205403 (2017).

"Probing the interplay between surface and bulk states in the topological Kondo insulator SmB₆ through conductance fluctuation spectroscopy"

S. Biswas, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, and A. Bid.

21. Physical Review B Rapid Communication 95, 020410 (R) (2017).

"Suppression of magnetic excitations near the surface of the topological Kondo insulator SmB₆"

P. K. Biswas, M. Legner, G. Balakrishnan, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, M. R. Lees, D. McK. Paul, E. Pomjakushina, T. Prokscha, A. Suter, T. Neupert, and Z. Salman.

2016

20. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 29, 075902 (2016).

"Single crystal growth, structure and magnetic properties of Pr₂Hf₂O₇ pyrochlore"

M. Ciomaga Hatnean, R. Sibille, M. R. Lees, M. Kenzelmann, V. Ban, V. Pomjakushin, and G. Balakrishnan.

19. Physical Review B 94, 134428 (2016).

"Magnetic properties and crystal field in Pr₂Zr₂O₇"

P. Bonville, S. Guitteny, A. Gukasov, I. Mirebeau, S. Petit, C. Decorse, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, and G. Balakrishnan.

18. Physical Review B 94, 165153 (2016).

"Antiferroquadrupolar correlations in the quantum spin ice candidate Pr₂Zr₂O₇"

S. Petit, E. Lhotel, S. Guitteny, O. Florea, J. Robert, P. Bonville, I. Mirebeau, J. Ollivier, H. Mutka, E. Ressouche, C. Decorse, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, and G. Balakrishnan.

17. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 682, 825-831 (2016).

”Critical behavior study of Pr_1−xSr_xMnO₃ and Nd_1−xSr_xMnO₃ with x = 1/2"

A. Oleaga, A. Salazar, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, and G. Balakrishnan.

* Acta Crystallographica A72, s306 (2016).

"Structural disorder in a magnetic pyrochlore oxide"

R. Sibille, T. Fennell, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, E. Lhotel, D. Keen, G. Balakrishnan, and M. Kenzelmann.

16. Physical Review B 94, 024436 (2016).

"Candidate quantum spin ice in the pyrochlore Pr₂Hf₂O₇"

R. Sibille, E. Lhotel, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, B. Fk, N. Gauthier, T. Fennell, and M. Kenzelmann.

15. Crystals 6, 79 (2016).

"Zirconate Pyrochlore Frustrated Magnets: Crystal Growth by the Floating Zone Technique"

M. Ciomaga Hatnean, C. Decorse, M. R. Lees, O. A. Petrenko, and G. Balakrishnan.

14. Nature Physics 12, 746-750 (2016).

"Observation of magnetic fragmentation in spin ice"
S. Petit, E. Lhotel, B. Canals, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, J. Ollivier, H. Mutka, E. Ressouche, A. R. Wildes, M. R. Lees, and G. Balakrishnan.

2015

13. Physical Review Letters 115, 197202 (2015).

"Fluctuations and all-in--all-out ordering in dipole-octopole Nd₂Zr₂O₇"

E. Lhotel, S. Petit, S. Guitteny, O. Florea, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, C. Colin, E. Ressouche, M. R. Lees, and G. Balakrishnan.

12. Physical Review B 92, 085103 (2015).

"Robust local and nonlocal transport in the topological Kondo insulator SmB₆ in the presence of a high magnetic field"

S. Biswas, R. Nagarajan, S. Sarkar, K. Rafsanjani Amin, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, S. Tewari, G. Balakrishnan, and A. Bid.

11. Science 349, 287-290 (2015).

"Unconventional Fermi surface in an insulating state"
B. S. Tan, Y.-T. Hsu, B. Zeng, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, N. Harrison, Z. Zhu, M. Hartstein, M. Kiourlappou, A. Srivastava, M. D. Johannes, T. P. Murphy, J.-H. Park, L. Balicas, G. G. Lon- zarich, G. Balakrishnan, and S. E. Sebastian.

10. Physical Review B 92, 024409 (2015).

"Three-dimensional Ising critical behavior in R_0.6Sr_0.4MnO₃ (R = Pr,Nd) manganites"

A. Oleaga, A. Salazar, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, and G. Balakrishnan.

9. Physical Review B 91, 224408 (2015).

"Transverse field muon-spin rotation signature of the skyrmion-lattice phase in Cu₂OSeO₃"

T. Lancaster, R. C. Williams, I. O. Thomas, F. Xiao, F. L. Pratt, S. J. Blundell, J. C. Loudon, T. Hesjedal, S. J. Clark, P. D. Hatton, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, D. S. Keeble, and G. Balakrishnan.

8. Journal of Crystal Growth 418, 1 (2015).

"Growth of single-crystals of rare-earth zirconate pyrochlores, Ln₂Zr₂O₇ (with Ln=La, Nd, Sm, and Gd) by the floating zone technique"

M. Ciomaga Hatnean, M. R. Lees, and G. Balakrishnan.

7. Physical Review B 91, 174416 (2015).

"Structural and magnetic investigations of single-crystalline neodymium zirconate pyrochlore Nd₂Zr₂O₇"

M. Ciomaga Hatnean, M. R. Lees, O. A. Petrenko, D. S. Keeble, G. Balakrishnan, M. J. Gutmann, V. V. Klekovkina, and B. Z. Malkin.

2014

6. Journal of Crystal Growth 404, 223-230 (2014).

"Crystal growth and characterization of the non-centrosymmetric antiferromagnet Ba₂CuGe₂O₇"

R. Fittipaldi, L. Rocco, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, V. Granata, M. R. Lees, G. Balakrishnan, and A. Vecchione.

5. Materials Research Express 1, 026109 (2014).

"Structural and magnetic properties of single crystals of the geometrically frustrated zirconium pyrochlore, Pr₂Zr₂O₇"

M. Ciomaga Hatnean, C. Decorse, M. R. Lees, O. A. Petrenko, D. S. Keeble, and G. Balakrishnan.

4. Physical Review B Rapid Communication 89, 161107 (R) (2014). (link)

"Low-temperature magnetic fluctuations in the Kondo insulator SmB₆"

P. K. Biswas, Z. Salman, T. Neupert, E. Morenzoni, E. Pomjakushina, F. von Rohr, K. Conder, G. Balakrishnan, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, M. R. Lees, D. McK Paul, A. Schilling, C. Baines, H. Luetkens, R. Khasanov, and A. Amato.

2013

3. Scientific Reports 3, 3071 (2013).

"Large high quality single crystals of the new Topological Kondo Insulator, SmB₆"
M. Ciomaga Hatnean, M. R. Lees, D. McK. Paul, and G. Balakrishnan.

2. Journal of Solid State Chemistry 200, 110-116 (2013).

"Structural and magnetic properties of the M₂Ga₂Fe₂O₉ (M = In, Sc) oxides"

M. Ciomaga Hatnean, L. Pinsard-Gaudart, M. T. Fernandez-Diaz, S. Petit, A. Dixit, G. Lawes, and R. Suryanarayanan.

2012

1. The European Physical Journal Special Topics 213, 69-76 (2012).

"Neutron scattering study of the magnetoelectric compound GaFeO₃"

M. Hatnean, J. Robert, M.T. Fernandez Diaz, E. Ressouche, A. Cousson, L. Pinsard-Gaudart, and S. Petit.

* Abstracts published in Conference Proceedings, not refereed.

Preprints of recent research projects

Preprints of some my recent research projects, as of June 2021:

Ke-Jun Xu et al., "Intrinsic one-dimensional conducting channels in the Kondo insulator SmB₆", under review. (link)
H. Liu et al., "f-electron hybridised metallic Fermi surface in magnetic field-induced metallic YbB₁₂", under review. (link)
D. J. Voneshen et al., "Kagome modes, a new route to ultralow thermal conductivity?". (link)

Other professional activities

Since 2019, topic Editor for Crystals.
Reviewer for scientific journals, such as: Crystals (member of the Reviewer Board), Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Electronics, Symmetry, Scientific Reports, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry and Physics, ACS Omega.
2015-2021: Member of the Institute of Physics (IOP).
2020-2021: Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Public Engagement, Outreach and Widening Participation

From 2018 to 2021, I coordinated a science public engagement and outreach programme, entitled “It’s a matter of crystals”. As part of this project, I delivered workshops in schools, public libraries and at science events/fairs. The project “It’s a matter of crystals” aimed to explain the importance of materials research, and particularly, the study of crystals, in daily life. I wished to emphasise the fundamental research interest in the growth of single crystals of materials and to draw attention to the wide range of applications that crystals have in society and economy.

Events and activities

Here's a list with some of the recent public engagement, widening participation and outreach events and activities in which I have been involved while at the University of Warwick.

XMaS:

Science Festivals & Family Days:

Widening Participation & Outreach:

Public Engagement:

"It's a Matter of Crystals!" workshop @ Coventry Library (14th July 2018).

Press Release, News Article & Interview:

How to make Christmas 2020 really different.
The world's most famous table: 150 years of Periodic Law.
Short interviews in the Vic Minnett radio show (29^th January and 19^th February 2019) @ BBC Coventry & Warwickshire.
Warwick Press Release: Science Gala 2019.
Coventry Telegraph Article: Science Gala 2019.

I have received recognition for my public engagement, outreach and widening participation work through the nomination to the University Awards 2019, both in the individual and team nominations (as part of my contribution to the XMaS team).

Publications

A full and up-to-date list of all my publications (including number of citations) can be accessed here or by visiting the database below.

Write to

If you have any questions about the research work carried out by Dr Monica Ciomaga Hatnean while at the University of Warwick, please email Prof. Geetha Balakrishnan at the following email address:

g.balakrishnan@warwick.ac.uk

Contact Details

1. Materials Discovery Laboratory, Department of Materials (D-MATL), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETHZ, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.

2. Laboratory for Multiscale materials eXperiments, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland.

E-mail me:

monica dot ciomaga at mat dot ethz dot ch

monica dot ciomaga at psi dot ch

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