Saskia F. Fischer

Saskia F. Fischer is a German experimental physicist and professor at the Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin since 2010. She is leading the Novel Materials group and received the Helmholtz Prize for high-precision ‘Nanometrology’ with her team and partners in 2020. Saskia Fischer is known for her research work on novel electronic materials investigating how mathematical principles of symmetry, geometry and topology influence flow of charge, heat and spin. She frames the influence of geometry in material design at the nanoscale as the inverse Bauhaus principle: “Function follows form”. This allows to adapt material parameters such as thermal and thermo/-electrical conductivities for future applications in quantum, nano and power electronics. Beyond her specific discipline, her interests span from foundations of quantum physics to a development of universal interdisciplinary science in order to prepare for current and future global challenges.

https://www.physik.hu-berlin.de/en/gnm-en/neue-materialien

Selected publications of various research topics:

• In-plane gate induced transition asymmetry of spin-resolved Landau levels in InAs-based quantum wells, O. Chiatti, J. Boy, C. Heyn, W. Hansen, S. F. Fischer, APL Mater. 12, 051107 (2024). DOI: 10.1063/5.0203097
• Nanometrology: Absolute Seebeck coefficient of individual silver nanowires, M. Kockert, D. Kojda, R. Mitdank, A. Mogilatenko, Z. Wang, J. Ruhhammer, M. Kroener, P. Woias, and S. F. Fischer, Scientific Reports 9, 20265 (2019). DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-56602-9
• 2D layered transport properties from topological insulator Bi₂Se₃ single crystals and micro flakes, O. Chiatti, C. Riha, D. Lawrenz, M. Busch, S. Dusari, J. Sánchez-Barriga, A. Mogilatenko, L. V. Yashina, S. Valencia, A. A. Ünal, O. Rader, and S. F. Fischer
  Sci. Rep. 6, 27483 (2016). DOI:10.1038/srep27483
• Energy spectroscopy of controlled coupled quantum-wire states, S. F. Fischer, G. Apetrii, U. Kunze, D. Schuh, and G. Abstreiter, Nature Physics 2, 91-96 (2006). DOI: 10.1038/nphys205