Rate My Professor Sara López Paz

López Paz's research centers on synthesizing complex solid-state compounds using advanced crystal growth, soft chemistry for anion exchange and cation intercalation, and probing structure-property relationships via X-ray and neutron scattering, as well as muon and X-ray spin spectroscopies. Her interests encompass low-dimensional and frustrated magnets, magnetic van der Waals materials, superconductivity, metal-insulator transitions, cuprates, and perovskites. Notable publications include 'Dynamic magnetic crossover at the origin of the hidden-order in van der Waals antiferromagnet CrSBr' (Nature Communications, 2022), 'Quasi 1D electronic transport in a 2D magnetic semiconductor' (Advanced Materials, 2022), 'Synthesis and Anisotropic Magnetic Properties of LiCrTe2 Single Crystals with a Triangular-Lattice Antiferromagnetic Structure' (Journal of Physics: Materials, 2023), 'Triple Magnetic Stacking in an Iron-Containing Cuprate with Cu-Fe-Cu Magnetic Blocks' (Chemistry of Materials, 2024), and 'YBaCuO-type perovskites as potential air electrodes for SOFCs' (Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021). These works, published in leading journals, demonstrate her impact on understanding quantum magnetism and electronic properties, with contributions cited over 370 times. She has secured major funding, including an Inge Lehmann programme grant, DKK 3,166,819 from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for 'Engineering dimensionality in quantum magnets by chemical design', and participation in a DKK 19 million Villum Infrastructure grant for advanced materials characterization facilities.