Elke Arenholz

Elke Arenholz is a German American physicist working in the field magnetic materials and X-ray spectroscopy, where she pioneered the use of superconducting vector magnets to study X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD).[1][2] She is the associate director of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS).[3]

Elke Arenholz
Elke Arenholz
Alma materFree University of Berlin
Known forX-ray spectroscopy
Scientific career
InstitutionsCHESS
ALS

Education and career

Arenholz earned her masters of science from the University of Regensburg. She then received her PhD from the Free University of Berlin, in Germany, where she started using x-rays to study magnetic materials.

In 1996, Arenholz joined the Advanced Light Source, in Berkeley, California as postdoctoral fellow, before joining the staff in 2000. Her first project there, an eight pole electromagnet providing magnetic fields up to 0.8 T in arbitrary directions relative to the incoming x-ray beam, was the first device installed at a synchrotron that could apply the magnetic field in any direction. In 2011, her team completed a first-of-its-kind superconducting vector magnet, similar to the eight pole magnet but providing up to 5 T in arbitrary directions.[4]

From 2013 to 2019 she was also an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, at the University of California, Berkeley. She became a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014.[5] In 2019, she joined CHESS in Ithaca, NY, as the associate director.

References
  1. Ring Leader: Elke Arenholz, Senior Scientist, Scientific Support Group – ALS News, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  2. Magnetism as seen with X‐Rays
  3. CHESS Welcomes Elke Arenholz as New Associate Director – Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source
  4. "Ring Leader: Elke Arenholz, Senior Scientist, Scientific Support Group". ALS. 2012-10-30. Retrieved 2022-03-20.
  5. APS Fellow Archive (2014) – American Physical Society
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