Madeleine Georgopoulou

Madeleine’s research focused on the materials realisation of novel electronic ground states, particularly the highly entangled quantum spin liquid state. Experimentally, she synthesised and characterized low-dimensional magnets using probes such as neutron and x-ray radiation, expanding the library of known quantum spin liquids. She studied the magnetic excitations and quantum criticality of these materials at the large-scale nuclear reactor facility Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in France, where she spent three years, and at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source in the UK. During this time, she also taught physical chemistry tutorials to undergraduate students.

 

In 2018, Madeleine graduated from UCL with a first class Master’s degree in Chemical Physics. Whilst at UCL, she was awarded EPSRC funding to complete a summer research project on sodium-ion batteries with the UCL Clean Materials Technology Group.