Prof Chiara Ciccarelli

Biography

Chiara Ciccarelli is Professor of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. She completed her undergraduate and master studies at Tor Vergata University in Rome. After her PhD in Cambridge she held a Junior Research Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College. In 2017 she started her research group at the Cavendish Laboratory with a Winton Advanced Research Fellowship. She is a Royal Society University Research Fellow since October 2017. In 2023 she was nominated Wohlfarth Lecturer by the Institute of Physics in recognition of her “significant contributions to the understanding of magnetism” and has been awarded an ERC consolidator grant.

Research

Chiara Ciccarelli’s research focuses on studying spin-dynamics in magnetically ordered materials, from ferromagnets to anti-ferromagnets to chiral magnets. She is interested in studying spin-charge interconversion for the purpose of electrically reading and writing the spin state and the ultimate speed with which this can be achieved. Her past research mainly focused on microwave studies. Since 2016 she has setup a time-resolved THz spectroscopy lab at the Maxwell Centre, which allows studying faster spin dynamics in the picoseconds timescale.