Professor Janice L. Musfeldt

Contact information

Professor Janice L. Musfeldt
Department of Chemistry
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996 USA

Phone: +1 865 974-3392
Fax: +1 865 974-3454
E-mail: musfeldt@utk.edu

Recent group news

Yanhong and Kevin measure magneto-infrared at the Magnet Lab!

Luther and Ashley travel to Brookhaven for near field and high pressure measurements!

Kevin passes his defense. What a great talk!

Dylan Andrews joins the group!

Nathan takes a job at Honeywell. Well done!

Yanhong Gu joins the team. Welcome!

Brian Taylor, Sabridhi Shah, and Ashley Glover do research rotations in the group. Welcome!

Luther adds Raman scattering to his research portfolio.

The new turbo pump stations arrive!

Avery and Kiman attend the quantum materials summer school in Santa Barbara!

Nathan defends his dissertation on high pressure properties of chalcogenides!

Kiman wins the 2022 departmental physical chemistry award at Honors Day!

Avery presents a poster at the MAGNA meeting in Gainesville!

Nathan and Kevin's paper accepted at npj 2D Materials and Applications. Well done!

Avery and Kiman measure high field magnetization at Los Alamos.

We acquire a Leica stereo microscope with a long working distance to load diamond anvil cells!

Nathan and Kiman give talks at the ACS and APS meetings!

Here come the theorists: Jun Hee Lee (Ulsan), Heung-Sik Kim (Kangwon), + many nice students!

Shiyu's work on vibrational properties of hafnia is accepted at npj Quantum Materials, and Kiman follows with nonreciprocity at telecom wavelengths!

A new Raman spectrometer will arrive at the end of April!

Avery and Kiman travel to the Tallahassee Magnet Lab for MCD measurements on the split Helix!

Janice L. Musfeldt

Professor, physical and materials chemistry

Professor, experimental condensed matter physics

Education

Postdoctoral research associate, Departement de Physique, Universite de Sherbrooke, 1993-1994.

Ph.D., physical chemistry with certification in chemical physics, University of Florida, 1992.

B.S., chemical engineering, University of Illinois, 1987.

Research area

Chemistry and physics of quantum materials.

Professional positions and awards

Professor, Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, 2014 - present.

Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, 2007 - present.

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, 2002 - 2007.

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, 2001 - Summer 2002.

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, Fall 2000.

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1995-2000.


  • James Scholar, University of Illinois.
  • 1996 CAREER award, Division of Materials Research, National Science Foundation.
  • Summers 1998, 1999, 2009, 2013, and 2016, visiting scientist, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.
  • 2001 Creativity award, Division of Materials Research, National Science Foundation.
  • 2010 Chancellor's award for research and creative achievement, University of Tennessee.
  • 2010-2014 and 2015-2019 Ziegler Professorship, Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee.
  • 2017 Fellow, American Physical Society.
  • 2020 Creativity extension of DMREF collaboration award, Division of Materials Research, National Science Foundation.
  • Member of the Rutgers-Tennessee DMREF team.
  • 2021 Senior Research Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tennessee.
  • 2022 Alexander van Hook award, University of Tennessee.

Recent professional activities and service

International symposium on crystalline organic metals, superconductors, and magnets 2024, Anchorage, AK, September 22 - 27, 2024.

Telluride science workshop: Enhanced functionalities in 4- and 5d-containing materials from large spin-orbit coupling, Telluride, CO, June 21 - 25, 2024.


Organizing committee for focus topic: FT 8.1.3. - Multiferroics, magnetoelectrics, charge-spin coupling, ferroelectrics, Nashville, TN, March 15 - 19, 2021.

Co-chair, experimental condensed matter physics PI meeting, Gaitersburg, MD, September 16 - 19, 2019

Member, international advisory committee for International symposium on crystalline organic metals, superconductors, and magnets 2019, Tomar, Portugal.

Organizing committee for 4d/5d transtion metal systems focus topic, 2019 APS meeting, Boston, MA.

Telluride science workshop: Enhanced functionalities in 4- and 5d-containing materials from large spin-orbit coupling, Telluride, CO, June 26 - 30, 2018.

Organizing committee for GMAG focus topic: FT 10.1.2. - Emergent properties of bulk complex oxides, Los Angeles, CA, March 5 - 9, 2018.

Member, organizing committee, 2016 Heifei conference on novel phenomena at high magnetic fields, Science and Technology University of China, Heifei, China, Oct. 29 - Nov. 1, 2016.

GRC-sponsored meeting: Two-dimensional electronics beyond graphene, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, June 5 - 10 2016.

Telluride science workshop: Enhanced functionalities in 4- and 5d-containing materials from large spin-orbit coupling, Telluride, CO, June 14 - 18, 2015.

GRC-sponsored meeting: Magnetoelectric and multiferroic materials, University of New England, Biddeford, ME, August 10 - 15, 2014.

Telluride science workshop: Enhanced functionalities in 5d transition metal compounds from large spin-orbit coupling, July 15 - 19, 2013, Telluride, CO.


  • Editorial board, Physical Review B, 2018 - present.
  • Advisory editorial board, Nature Quantum Materials, 2016 - present.

  • Member, DCMP nominating committee, APS. 2018 - 2021.
  • DMP Fellowship Selection Committee, APS. 2019 - 2022.
  • ACS national awards selection committee. 2015 - 2018; 2019 - 2022.
  • Chair, national user committee and ex-officio member of the external advisory committee, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. 2010 - 2012.
  • Member, national user committee, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. 2010 - 2013; 2018 - 2021.
  • Member, soft x-ray, photoelectrons, and infrared proposal review committee, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory. 2012 - 2014; 2019 - 2021.
  • Member, 40 T external technical advisory committee, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. 2022 - present.
  • Member, external advisory committee for the Center for Molecular Magnetic Materials EFRC at the University of Florida.
  • Chair of the graduate admissions committee, Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee.