Alessandra Lanzara and her group have invented an instrument that enables scientists to directly map and control in the momentum space the spin quantum number of electrons. This device will facilitate the creation of materials to realize quantum computing, the next revolution in information technology.
Alessandra Lanzara is the Charles Kittel Professor of Physics and a Senior Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is also the Chair of the Far West section of the American Physical Society. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the Universita’ di Roma La Sapienza, and did postdoctoral research at Stanford University. Her research is focused on understanding electron behavior and fundamental interactions in quantum materials and on their manipulation with coherently sculpted field of light.
Alessandra Lanzara was a 2023 Bakar Prize Recipient.