Imperial College London

Professor Lesley F Cohen

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Physics

Associate Provost (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion)
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 7598l.cohen Website CV

 
 
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Assistant

 

Mrs Carolyn Dale +44 (0)20 7594 7579

 
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Location

 

1111Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Summary

My  research interests include the study of  magnetic materials (for solid state magnetic cooling using magnetocalorics) and highly spin polarised magnetic materials (for spintronics and long range spin triplet superconductivity) as well as an interest in transport properties of high mobility materials such as narrow gap semiconductors and graphene, superconductors (in particular gap structure and vortex pinning), and Raman spectroscopy (surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy as a tool to understand Fuel Cell materials). I have published over 400 journal publications in related topics and my h index is currently 47. 

I work closely with a number of other academics at Imperial College as well as strong links to a number of other UK Universities namely Cambridge, Glasgow, Manchester, Lancaster, Surrey and Cardiff. The group is also well connected to international groups in Europe, the USA, Brazil and India.

I co-supervise a number of PhD students including Matthew Hamer (CASE award with the National Physical Laboratory on non contact graphene sensors),Freya Johnson (Antiperovskite Mn Nitrides for Barocaloric application and Spintronics CASE award with Hitachi Cambridge), Kevin Chan (Superconducting spintronics - CDT ACM) and Kilian Stenning (Artificial Spin Ice).


External Appointments

2019-               Editor-in-Chief Applied Physics Letters

2016-              Chair, SAB, SB Quantum Matter Institute, UBC Vancouver

2016-2021       Institute of Physics, Trustee and Council member 

Publications

Journals

Boldrin D, Mihai AP, Zou B, et al., 2024, Correction to "Giant piezomagnetism in Mn3NiN", Acs Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol:16, ISSN:1944-8244, Pages:2997-2997

Cohen L, 2023, Controlling spin pumping into superconducting Nb by proximity-induced spin-triplet Cooper pairs, Communications Physics, Vol:6, ISSN:2399-3650

Beckert S, Godinho J, Johnson F, et al., 2023, Anomalous Nernst effect in Mn3NiN thin films, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol:108, ISSN:1098-0121

Beckert S, Godinho J, Johnson F, et al., 2023, Anomalous Nernst effect in Formula Presented thin films, Physical Review B, Vol:108, ISSN:2469-9950

Doiron B, Li Y, Bower R, et al., 2023, Optimizing hot electron harvesting at planar metal–semiconductor interfaces with titanium oxynitride thin films, Acs Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol:25, ISSN:1944-8244, Pages:30417-30426

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