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Cristiane Morais Smith leads a research group in Strongly Correlated Systems at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of Utrecht University, working on low-dimensional systems, ranging from condensed matter to cold atoms. Her group pioneered the development of a thermodynamic description of topological insulators and superconductors, as well as the use of a projected quantum electrodynamics formulation to investigate topological phases driven by interactions. In the last years, her group has been playing an important role in the development of electronic quantum simulators and metamaterials in collaboration with experimentalists in Utrecht.
Paraguaçu Paulista, ein Dorf, 500 Kilometer von São Paulo entfernt. Christiane de Morais Smith Lehner ist 13 Jahre alt, als der Lehrer seine Klasse vor eine – seiner Ansicht nach – unlösbare Aufgabe stellt. «Doch ich habe die Lösung gefunden», erzählt sie, noch immer voller Stolz. (Paraguaçu Paulista, a village 500 kilometers from São Paulo. Christiane de Morais Smith Lehner is 13 years old when the teacher presents his class with what he believes is an unsolvable task. "But I found the solution," she says, still full of pride.)
After holding a C1 postdoc position in Hamburg, Germany, she was awarded the Professor Boursier Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation and became associate professor in Fribourg, Switzerland. Finally, in 2004 she was offered a Chair in Condensed Matter Theory and became a full professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. In 2008, she was awarded the prestigious VICI fellowship from the Dutch Research Organization (NWO), which has strongly boosted her research.
Prof. Andreas Hemmerich called Morais Smith a perfect role model and his favorite proof against gravity. In his honorary speech, he outlined her path of life starting in a small village in Brazil to her engagement as a highly acclaimed physics professor at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
