Jenny Hoffman

Hoffman became interested in physics as a child, inspired by her mother, who taught high school physics.^[4] She studied physics at Harvard University, graduating in 1999 magna cum laude. Hoffman joined the University of California, Berkeley as a graduate student, working with Séamus Davis on the characterisation of Bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide.^[5][6]

Hoffman joined Stanford University as a postdoctoral research associate in Kathryn Moler's group.^[7] In 2005 she joined Harvard University as an assistant professor. Hoffman's group use layer by layer growth and high-resolution imaging of molecules.^[8] Using scanning tunneling spectroscopy they explained vortex pinning in high-temperature superconductors.^[8] She is also interested in topological insulators and strongly correlated materials.^[9] She has won several large research grants, from National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation and the Air Force Research Laboratory.^[10][11] She has developed quasiparticle interference imaging and force microscopy to trigger electronic phase transitions.^[12]

In 2015, Hoffman joined University of British Columbia as a Canada Excellence Research Chair.^[13] The position was worth $10 million over seven years, enabling University of British Columbia to use atomic level 3D printing.^[14][15] She returned to Harvard University after less than a year.^[16]

In 2013, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study awarded her a fellowship to image complex oxides.^[12]