Contact informationProfessor Janice L. MusfeldtDepartment of Chemistry University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996 USA Phone: +1 865 974-3392 Fax: +1 865 974-3454 E-mail: musfeldt@utk.edu Recent group newsLuther and Ashley acquire an AFM / PFM setup. Now we need to make it work! Kavishka attends the Gordon Research Conference on chirality! Ashley is elected vice-president of the ACGS! The micro-sample holder for the surface mechanical testing system is ready! Ella is back for another summer as our lab technician!
New 632 nm laser is installed! Sambridhi and Lakshan travel to the NSLS 2 for high pressure synchrotron work! Surface mechanical testing system finally arrives! Sang Cheong (Rutgers) and Junjie Yang (NJIT) visit the lab for collaboration and hiking! Ashley wins the Inorganic chemistry award AND the ACGS Service award at the Departmental Honors Day! Luis Balicas from the NHMFL stopped by to give a talk. Brian and Lakshan are sciencing at the high pressure beamline at BNL! Kavishka and Ian measure magneto-Raman scattering at the NHMFL! Ashley travels to the NSLS II for near field infrared imaging. Daniel and Kevin measure magneto-optics at the NHMFL! Ben attends the MAGNA workshop in Tallahassee! Vivien Zapf from LANL visits for a Women in STEM-inar talk! Daniel, Kavishka, Lakshan, and Ben pass their candidacy exams. Ashley travels to the Ferroelectrics workshop in DC and wins a poster award! Yanhong accepts faculty position at Tsinghau University! Daniel attends the quantum materials winter school in Maryland. Heung-Sik Kim and his student Songjay from Kangwon visit for a week! |
Janice L. MusfeldtProfessor, physical and materials chemistry Professor, experimental condensed matter physics EducationPostdoctoral research associate, Departement de Physique, Universite de Sherbrooke, 1993-1994. Ph.D., physical chemistry with certification in chemical physics, University of Florida, 1992. B.S., chemical engineering, University of Illinois, 1987. Research areaChemistry and physics of quantum materials. Professional positions and awardsProfessor, Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, 2014 - present. Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, 2007 - present. Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, 2002 - 2007. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, 2001 - Summer 2002. Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, Fall 2000. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1995-2000.
Recent professional activities and serviceTelluride science workshop: Spin-orbit coupling in quantum materials, Telluride, CO, June 28 - July 2, 2026. International symposium on crystalline organic metals, superconductors, and magnets 2024, Anchorage, AK, September 22 - 27, 2024. Loop currents in quantum materials 2024, Boulder, CO, August 12 - 13, 2024. Telluride science workshop: Enhanced functionalities in 4- and 5d-containing materials from large spin-orbit coupling, Telluride, CO, June 25 - 29, 2024. Organizing committee for focus topic: FT 8.1.3. - Multiferroics, magnetoelectrics, charge-spin coupling, ferroelectrics, Nashville, TN, March 15 - 19, 2021. Co-chair, experimental condensed matter physics PI meeting, Gaitersburg, MD, September 16 - 19, 2019 Member, international advisory committee for International symposium on crystalline organic metals, superconductors, and magnets 2019, Tomar, Portugal. Organizing committee for 4d/5d transtion metal systems focus topic, 2019 APS meeting, Boston, MA. Telluride science workshop: Enhanced functionalities in 4- and 5d-containing materials from large spin-orbit coupling, Telluride, CO, June 26 - 30, 2018. Organizing committee for GMAG focus topic: FT 10.1.2. - Emergent properties of bulk complex oxides, Los Angeles, CA, March 5 - 9, 2018. Member, organizing committee, 2016 Heifei conference on novel phenomena at high magnetic fields, Science and Technology University of China, Heifei, China, Oct. 29 - Nov. 1, 2016. GRC-sponsored meeting: Two-dimensional electronics beyond graphene, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, June 5 - 10 2016. Telluride science workshop: Enhanced functionalities in 4- and 5d-containing materials from large spin-orbit coupling, Telluride, CO, June 14 - 18, 2015. GRC-sponsored meeting: Magnetoelectric and multiferroic materials, University of New England, Biddeford, ME, August 10 - 15, 2014. Telluride science workshop: Enhanced functionalities in 5d transition metal compounds from large spin-orbit coupling, July 15 - 19, 2013, Telluride, CO.
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