Athena Sefat

Athena Safa Sefat, born 1977 in Iran[1] is a Canadian physicist working on quantum materials and correlated phenomena.[2] She is a senior scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and leads the DOE Basic Energy Science on "Probing Competing Chemical, Electronic, and Spin Correlations for Quantum Materials Functionality."

Athena Sefat
Athena Sefat in 2019

Sefat earned a PhD from McMaster University (Canada), followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Ames Laboratory. She joined ORNL in 2007 and was awarded the prestigious DOE Office of Science Early Career Award for the period 2010–2015. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics. She serves as a member of the American Physical Society Committee on International Freedom of Scientists,[3] and the Materials Research Society New Meetings Subcommittee.

References
  1. press release knoxnews.com,2015
  2. "Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Athena S Sefat".
  3. "American Physical Society - Committee on International Freedom of Scientists".
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