ProfessorCatherine Stampfl

Professor Stampfl is an ARC Laureate Fellow. She is Professor of Physics at the University of Sydney and heads the Condensed Matter Theory Research Group within the School of Physics. She is internationally recognised for her work in the area of first-principles computational condensed matter and materials. Professor Catherine Stampfl holds a PhD and BSc from the La Trobe University and a Habilitation from the Technical University Berlin, Germany. Prior appointments include postdoc and staff scientist in the Theory Department of the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck Society, Berlin Germany, Research Fellow at Xerox, Palo Alto Research Center, California USA and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, USA.