Claudia Felser studied chemistry and physics at the University of Cologne (Germany, completing there both her diploma in solid state chemistry (1989) and her doctorate in physical chemistry (1994). After postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart (Germany) and the CNRS in Nantes (France), she joined the University of Mainz (Germany) in 1996 becoming a full professor there in 2003. She is currently Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden (Germany). Her research foci are the design and discovery of novel inorganic compounds, in particular, Heusler compounds for multiple applications and new topological quantum materials. In 2011 and again in 2017, she received an ERC Advanced grant. Felser was honored as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society, she received the Alexander M. Cruickshank Lecturer Award of the Gordon Research Conference, a SUR-grant Award from IBM and the Tsungmin Tu Research Prize from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan, the highest academic honor granted to foreign researchers in Taiwan. In 2019, Claudia Felser was awarded the APS James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials together with Bernevig (Princeton) and Dai (Hongkong). She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics, London. In 2018, she became a member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, and acatech, the German National Academy of Science and Engineering.

Her research foci are the design and discovery of novel inorganic compounds, in particular, Heusler compounds for multiple applications and new topological quantum materials.

Bernevig, B. A.; Felser, C.; Beidenkopf, H.: Progress and prospects in magnetic topological materials. Nature 603 (7899), pp. 41 - 51 (2022) Regnault, N.; Xu, Y.; Li, M.-R.; Ma, D.-S.; Jovanovic, M.; Yazdani, A.; Parkin, S. S. P.; Felser, C.; Schoop, L. M.; Ong, N. P. et al.: Catalogue of flat-band stoichiometric materials. Nature 603 (7903), pp. 824 - 828 (2022) Scheffler, M.; Aeschlimann, M.; Albrecht, M.; Bereau, T.; Bungartz, H.-J.; Felser, C.; Greiner, M.; Groß, A.; Koch, C. T.; Kremer, K. et al.: FAIR data enabling new horizons for materials research. Nature 604 (7907), pp. 635 - 642 (2022) Singh, S.; Kumar, N.; Roychowdhury, S.; Shekhar, C.; Felser, C.: Anisotropic large diamagnetism in Dirac semimetals ZrTe5 and HfTe5. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 34 (22), 225802, pp. 1 - 6 (2022) Tilmann, B.; Pandeya, A. K.; Grinblat, G.; Menezes, L. d. S.; Li, Y.; Shekhar, C.; Felser, C.; Parkin, S. S. P.; Bedoya-Pinto, A.; Maier, S. A.: Ultrafast Sub-100 fs All-Optical Modulation and Efficient Third-Harmonic Generation in Weyl Semimetal Niobium Phosphide Thin Films. Advanced Materials 34 (15), 2106733, pp. 1 - 8 (2022) Wawrzyńczak, R.; Galeski, S.; Noky, J.; Sun, Y.; Felser, C.; Gooth, J.: Quasi-quantized Hall response in bulk InAs. Scientific Reports 12, 2153, pp. 1 - 6 (2022) Zeng, Q.; Sun, H.; Shen, J.; Yao, Q.; Zhang, Q.; Li, N.; Jiao, L.; Wei, H.; Felser, C.; Wang, Y. et al.: Pressure-Driven Magneto-Topological Phase Transition in a Magnetic Weyl Semimetal. Advanced quantum technologies, 2100149, pp. 1 - 9 (2022) Amigó, M. L.; Maljuk, A.; Manna, K.; Stahl, Q.; Felser, C.; Hess, C.; Wolter, A. U. B.; Geck, J.; Seiro, S.; Büchner, B.: Laser-Assisted Floating Zone Growth of BaFe2S3 Large-Sized Ferromagnetic-Impurity-Free Single Crystals. Crystals 11 (7), 758, pp. 1 - 11 (2021) Chen, D.; Le, C.; Fu, C.; Lin, H.; Schnelle, W.; Sun, Y.; Felser, C.: Large anomalous Hall effect in the kagome ferromagnet LiMn6Sn6. Physical Review B 103 (14), 144410, pp. 1 - 5 (2021) Chen, Y. S.; Lin, J. G.; Singh, S.; Manna, K.; Fecher, G. H.; Felser, C.: Martensite-austenite transition correlated twinning and symmetry breaking in single crystalline Ni50Mn35In15. Physical Review Materials 5, 034418, pp. 1 - 5 (2021) dos Reis, R. D.; Caron, L.; Singh, S.; Felser, C.; Nicklas, M.: Direct and Indirect Determination of the Magnetocaloric Effect in the Heusler Compound Ni1.7Pt0.3MnGa. Entropy 23 (10), 1273, pp. 1 - 10 (2021) Fecher, G. H.; He, Y.; Felser, C.: Composition-dependent transition in the magnetocrystalline anisotropy of tetragonal Heusler alloys Rh2TSb (T=Fe, Co). Physical Review Materials 5 (5), 054404, pp. 1 - 14 (2021) Guehne, R.; Haase, J.; Shekhar, C.; Felser, C.: Field-induced charge symmetry revealed by nuclear magnetic resonance in the topological insulator Bi2Te3. Physical Review Research 3 (1), L012018, pp. 1 - 5 (2021) He, B.; Sahin, C.; Boona, S. R.; Sales, B. C.; Pan, Y.; Felser, C.; Flatte, M. E.; Heremans, J. P.: Large magnon-induced anomalous Nernst conductivity in single-crystal MnBi. Joule 5 (11), pp. 3057 - 3067 (2021) He, Y.; Sibille, R.; Chen, D.; Kroder, J.; Helm, T.; Schnelle, W.; Felser, C.; Fecher, G. H.: Anisotropic magnetization, critical temperature, and paramagnetic Curie temperature in the highly anisotropic magnetic Heusler compound Rh2CoSb. Physical Review B 103 (21), 214436, pp. 1 - 7 (2021) Hemmida, M.; Winterhalter-Stocker, N.; Ehlers, D.; Von Nidda, H.-A.K.; Yao, M.; Bannies, J.; Rienks, E.D.L.; Kurleto, R.; Felser, C.; Büchner, B. et al.: Topological magnetic order and superconductivity in EuRbFe4As4. Physical Review B 103 (19), 195112, pp. 1 - 13 (2021) Huang, X.; Guo, C.; Putzke, C.; Diaz, J.; Manna, K.; Shekhar, C.; Felser, C.; Moll, P. J. W.: Non-linear Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in the self-heating regime. Applied Physics Letters 119 (22), 224101, pp. 1 - 6 (2021) Klemenz, S.; Stegmüller, A.; Yoon, S.; Felser, C.; Tüysüz, H.; Weidenkaff, A.: Holistic View on Materials Development: Water Electrolysis as a Case Study. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English 60, pp. 1 - 8 (2021) Kroder, J.; Fecher, G. H.; Felser, C.: Heusler-Verbindungen: Zwischen intermetallischen Verbindungen und Legierungen. Chemie in unserer Zeit, pp. 1 - 10 (2021)