Nicola Spaldin
@nicolaspaldin.bsky.social
Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zürich
A good sign at check-in for the Spice Chiral Phonons workshop ;) www.spice.uni-mainz.de/chiral-phono...
July 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A good sign at check-in for the Spice Chiral Phonons workshop ;) www.spice.uni-mainz.de/chiral-phono...
Early season conditions in Tuolumne Meadows; snow slope and bergschrund start to Holdless Horror.
June 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Early season conditions in Tuolumne Meadows; snow slope and bergschrund start to Holdless Horror.
A Swiss send-off from colleagues at the end of my Berkeley sabbatical!
June 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A Swiss send-off from colleagues at the end of my Berkeley sabbatical!
Cy Twombly (left) imitating my office blackboard (right) at SFMOMA today:
May 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Cy Twombly (left) imitating my office blackboard (right) at SFMOMA today:
A treat to meet a goose family in the Brussels botanical garden after Day 1 of the ERC scientific council meeting :)
April 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A treat to meet a goose family in the Brussels botanical garden after Day 1 of the ERC scientific council meeting :)
Over-excited wildlife at the Molecular Foundry today.
April 17, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Over-excited wildlife at the Molecular Foundry today.
Congratulations to Edith on her first paper in the group! journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...
April 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Congratulations to Edith on her first paper in the group! journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...
Weekend reading on Emergent Surface Multiferroicity:
journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1...
Thanks to all the former postdocs for still wanting to collaborate with me!
journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1...
Thanks to all the former postdocs for still wanting to collaborate with me!
April 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Weekend reading on Emergent Surface Multiferroicity:
journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1...
Thanks to all the former postdocs for still wanting to collaborate with me!
journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1...
Thanks to all the former postdocs for still wanting to collaborate with me!
Nelly's MSc thesis work explaining the paramagnetic diffuse scattering in MnWO4 just posted on the arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.23704
April 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Nelly's MSc thesis work explaining the paramagnetic diffuse scattering in MnWO4 just posted on the arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.23704
Fabulous view on the conference hike to Tomales Bay!
March 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Fabulous view on the conference hike to Tomales Bay!
View of Tomales Bay from the Berkeley New Frontiers in Quantum Materials Workshop :) physics.berkeley.edu/new-frontier...
March 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
View of Tomales Bay from the Berkeley New Frontiers in Quantum Materials Workshop :) physics.berkeley.edu/new-frontier...
Perks of sabbatical in Berkeley: A really nice day hiking on Angel Island
March 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Perks of sabbatical in Berkeley: A really nice day hiking on Angel Island
Getting over jet lag with a long run in the Berkeley hills and found my first California poppy of the season :)
February 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Getting over jet lag with a long run in the Berkeley hills and found my first California poppy of the season :)