Professor Roderich Moessner
BA, DPhil
Honorary Fellow
Roderich Moessner is director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden.
After studying physics as an undergraduate at Hertford College, and his DPhil in theoretical physics, he was postdoc at Princeton University, and held faculty appointments at École normale supérieure in Paris and at Oxford University.
His research is in the field of condensed matter and quantum many-body physics, where his theoretical discoveries include classical and quantum spin liquids, emergent magnetic monopoles, and non-equilibrium spatiotemporal ordering phenomena. He is recipient of the Leibniz Prize, the Europhysics Prize, and the Max-Born-Medal, the latter awarded jointly by the German Physical Society and the British Institute of Physics.