First Name
Alannah
Last Name
Hallas
Position
Assistant Professor
Office Room
Brimacombe 470
Tel (Office)
(604)-822-9646
Email
hallas@phas.ubc.ca
Research Groups
Students Wanted
willing to supervise
Research Website
Bachelor's Degree
University of Winnipeg, 2011
Master's Degree
University of Manitoba, 2013
Doctoral Degree
McMaster University, 2017
Employment History
2019 – present Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
2017 – 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University
Awards
2020 – 2022 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar in Quantum Materials
2017 – 2019 Smalley-Curl Postdoctoral Fellowship in Quantum Materials
2017 – 2019 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship
2018 The Neutron Scattering Society of America Prize for Outstanding Student Research
2014 – 2017 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship
Committees and Service
- Member-at-large of the Neutron Scattering Society of America Executive Committee
- Editorial Board Member of Communications Materials
- Member of the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute Executive Committee
Hobbies and Interests
When she's not growing crystals or at the beam line, Alannah loves cooking, playing bridge, and learning to sail in the waters around beautiful British Columbia.
Research Area
Condensed Matter
Research Field
Experimental studies of quantum materials, crystal growth, neutron scattering, muon spin relaxation
Research Topics
Design and crystal growth of new quantum materials, Structural and magnetic properties of high entropy oxides, Magnetic frustration in the local to itinerant crossover, Multipolar interactions in rare earth magnets, Topological semimetals with strong spin-orbit coupling
Research Title
Design and crystal growth of quantum materials
Abstract
Selected Publications
For a full list of publications, see: My website or Google Scholar or the arXiv
- Entropy Engineering and Tunable Magnetic Order in the Spinel High-Entropy Oxide. [Johnstone, González-Rivas, Taddei, Sutarto, Sawatzky, Green, Oudah, and Hallas. Journal of the American Chemical Society 144, 45, 20590–20600 (2022)].
- Tutorial: a beginner’s guide to interpreting magnetic susceptibility data with the Curie-Weiss law. [Mugiraneza and Hallas. Communications Physics 5, 1-12 (2022)].
- Frustrated magnetism in fluoride and chalcogenide pyrochlore lattice materials. [Reig-i-Plessis and Hallas, Physical Review Materials 5, 030301 (2021)]
- Quantum critical point in the itinerant ferromagnet Ni1-xRhx. [Huang, Hallas, Grube, Kuntz, Spiess, Bayliff, Besara, Siegrist, Cai, Beare, Luke, and E. Morosan. Physical Review Letters 124, 117203 (2020)]
- Complex transport and magnetism in inhomogeneous mixed valence Ce3Ir4Ge13. [Hallas, Huang, Rai, Weiland, McCandless, Chan, Beare, Luke, and Morosan. Physical Review Materials 3, 114407 (2019)]
- Coexistence of metallic and nonmetallic properties in the pyrochlore Lu2Rh2O7. [Hallas, Sharma, Mauws, Chen, Zhou, Ding, Gong, Tachibana, Sarte, Attfield, Luke, and Wiebe. npj Quantum Materials 4, 9 (2019)]
- Experimental insights into ground-state selection of quantum XY pyrochlores. [Hallas, Gaudet, and Gaulin. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics. 9, 105 (2018)]