Athena Sefat
Athena Safa Sefat is an American physicist working on quantum materials and correlated phenomena. She is a senior scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and leads the DOE Basic Energy Science on "Probing Competing Chemical, Electronic, and Spin Correlations for Quantum Materials Functionality."
Sefat earned a PhD from McMaster University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Ames Laboratory. She joined ORNL in 2007 and was awarded the prestigious DOE Office of Science Early Career Award for the period 2010–2015. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics.
She serves as a member of the American Physical Society Committee on International Freedom of Scientists, and the Materials Research Society New Meetings Subcommittee.
