Rebecca Flint

I am a theoretical condensed matter physicist studying correlated electronic materials, with a particular interest in realizing exotic emergent phenomena in real materials. I earned my PhD from Rutgers University, was a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, and am currently an associate professor at Iowa State University. I was awarded a NSF CAREER grant to study exotic magnetic materials, and a DOE Early Career award to study praseodymium-based heavy fermion materials.

Currently, I lead a DOE project at the Ames National Laboratory exploring the interplay of magnetic anisotropy and mixed valence in rare earths, which can both help us design better permanent magnets for clean energy uses and explore exotic heavy fermion physics in real materials.