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Congratulations to Dongwook Go on winning the 2025 IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in the field of Magnetism: iupap.org/who-we-are/int…

Last day of post-sabbatical vacation with a fantastic hike to Duck Pass via Skelton Lake. Start of the voyage back to Switzerland tomorrow!

Ooooh, our new PPMS has arrived! Testing starts today, then looking forward to measuring many physical properties :)

Sophie and Andrea's paper on Local Magnetoelectric Effects as Predictors of Surface Magnetic Order just published in Physical Review X

Back home in Switzerland and at a particularly pretty part of it (the source of the Rhein):

I'm looking forward to working with new member Conny Aerts on the ERC Scientific Council: erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne…

Congratulations to Hugo Bocquet on successfully defending his thesis on Stability and thermal activation in magnetic spin systems (and for figuring out the meaning of the symbols on his hat!)

Detilas of the floating zone synthesis and properties of LaFeW3O12 just posted on the ETH research collection by Frank Lichtenberg: research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.…

Sign of an excellent trail run :)

Nice feature on our Emergent Surface Multiferroicity paper in Science magazine: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Science Magazine

Superb apple cake at the Leglerhütte today :)

And a nice view back to the hut on the way down…

Very excited about my new toe socks — blister free over the Jöriflüela Pass :)

Report on workshop on Research & Innovation for a Competitive Europe emphasises the need for long-term support for high-risk frontier research: erc.europa.eu/sites/default/…

Excitons matter if you're trying to find Dark Matter (or have another finite-momentum transition). Nora's paper showing their importance just posted on the arXiv here: arxiv.org/abs/2507.14345

Not very busy on the boat home from Zürich today…

A good sign at check-in for the Spice Chiral Phonons workshop ;) spice.uni-mainz.de/chiral-phonons…

My first Swiss National Day as a Swiss National!