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Physical & Biological Sciences Division
Physics Department
Acting Associate Professor
Faculty
Physics Department
Baumbach is focused on new materials physics, with an emphasis on structural, magnetic and electronic states that derive from transition metal, lanthanide and actinide elements. To do this he follows an approach based on: (i) development of design principles; (ii) crystal growth methods; and (iii) elucidation of phenomena using scattering, electronic, and thermodynamic probes. All of these efforts depend on his robust crystal growth capabilities, which have established him as a front-line source of materials for international collaborations. He is also a champion for the advancement of society through science, where he regularly serves as a guest lecturer at schools and in public forums.
Education
1998 - 2002 University of California, Santa Cruz, B.S. Physics
Advisor: Professor Frank “Bud” Bridges
Topic: Probing Phonon Scattering Sites in the Thermoelectric Clathrates Eu8Ga16Ge30 and Sr8Ga16Ge30
2002 - 2004 University of California, San Diego, M.S. Physics
2004 - 2009 University of California, San Diego, Ph.D. Physics
Advisor: Professor M. Brian Maple
Topic: Strongly Correlated Electron Behavior in Arsenic-Based and Thin Film Antimony-Based Filled Skutterudites
Postdoctoral Research
2009 - 2010 University of California, San Diego
Advisor: Professor M. Brian Maple
Topic: Strongly correlated electron physics and iron based superconductors
2011 - 2014 Director’s Funded Postdoctoral Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Advisor: Dr. Eric Bauer
Topic: Relationships between Fermi surface and emergent behavior in strongly correlated f-electron materials
Academic Appointments
2023 – present Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
2020 – present Associate Research Professor, Dept. of Physics, Florida State University
2019 – present Research Faculty 2, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
2017 – 2020 Assistant Research Professor, Dept. of Physics, Florida State University
2014 – 2019 Research Faculty 1, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
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