2024 – present Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
2024 – present Co-Director, CIFAR Quantum Materials Program
2019 – 2024 Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
2017 – 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University
2023 – 2025 Sloan Research Foundation Fellowship
2023 IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in the field of Magnetism
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
- Editorial Board Member of Communications Materials
- Member of the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute Executive Committee
- Physical Review B Early Career Researcher Advisory Board Member
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.
For a full list of publications, see: My website or Google Scholar or the arXiv
- Effect of high pressure synthesis conditions on the formation of high entropy oxides. [ Aamlid, Kim, González-Rivas, Oudah, Takagi, and Hallas. Applied Physics Letters 125, 021901 (2024)].
- Phase stability of entropy stabilized oxides with the α-PbO2 structure. [Aamlid, Johnstone, Mugiraneza, Oudah, Rottler, and Hallas. Communications Materials 4, 45 (2023)].
- Understanding the role of entropy in high entropy oxides. [Aamlid, Oudah, Rottler, and Hallas. Journal of the American Chemical Society 145 (11), 5991-6006 (2023)].
- 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)]