Antia Botana, Ph.D.

Antia Botana is an associate professor of Physics at Arizona State University. She received his Ph.D. in 2013 from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). After completing her Ph.D., she had postdoctoral fellowships first at the University of California, Davis then at Argonne National Laboratory. Following her postdoctoral appointments, she joined the faculty in the Department of Physics at Arizona State University in 2018.

In her research, Dr. Botana studies materials exhibiting quantum-mechanical effects over wide energy and length scales, known as ‘quantum materials’. In quantum materials, reduced dimensionality, strong electron correlations, and/or topology give rise to unconventional ground states, such as high-temperature superconductivity, topological insulators, quantum spin liquids, and spin ices. These remarkable properties have generated keen scientific interest but also pose immense challenges to the experimental and theoretical work required to understand and exploit them. Dr. Botana uses advanced computational methods including density functional theory (DFT) and dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) to elucidate the behavior of quantum materials.