30/04/2026
2026 IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in the field of Magnetism has been awarded to Dr. Ying-Jiun Chen, currently at Forschungszentrum Jülich, for Pioneering discoveries concerning the interplay between topology, magnetic order, and spin excitations in low-dimensional quantum magnets, made possible by innovative spectromicroscopy.
It is our pleasure to announce that the 2026 IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in the field of Magnetism has been awarded to Dr. Ying-Jiun Chen, currently at Forschungszentrum Jülich, for Pioneering discoveries concerning the interplay between topology, magnetic order, and spin excitations in low-dimensional quantum magnets, made possible by innovative spectromicroscopy.
The award will be presented to Dr. Chen at the 2027 International Conference on Magnetism (ICM2027), to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, during June 14 – 18, 2027.
Dr. Ying-Jiun Chen is a scientist at Forschungszentrum Jülich. She received her PhD in Physics from the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics and Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, where she worked in the group of Prof. Jürgen Kirschner. In 2017, she joined the group of Prof. Claus M. Schneider at University of Duisburg-Essen as a postdoctoral fellow. Since 2023, she has been a member of Dr. Christian Tusche’s group at the Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich. Chen’s research focuses on the fundamental interplay between topology, magnetic order, and spin excitations in low-dimensional magnets.
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