Marlies Reher

A share of the prize is awarded to Marlies Reher for her truly impressive work on first-principles calculations that explore the structural, electronic, and magnetic interface phenomena in chromium(III)oxide-platinum heterostructures, carried out in the group of Prof. Nicola Spaldin at ETH. Her thesis required to make advanced fully relativistic magnetic density functional calculations work for the antiferromagnetic order of chromium(III)oxide and the strong spin-orbit coupling at the platinum atoms, which yielded a wealth of microscopic insights into these materials.