Rate My Professor Hanno Weitering

Hanno Weitering is Chancellor's Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He earned his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Groningen in 1991. His research specializes in experimental condensed matter physics, with emphasis on surfaces, interfaces, ultrathin film materials, electronic instabilities, and correlated electron phenomena in low-dimensional materials. Key contributions include the discovery of itinerant antiferromagnetism in ruthenium dioxide, a common chemical catalyst, and the realization of topological superconductivity at the surface of conventional silicon, opening silicon-compatible pathways to quantum matter phases for potential quantum technologies. Weitering's group employs molecular beam epitaxy synthesis and characterization techniques such as scanning tunneling microscopy, spectroscopy, photoemission, transport measurements, and SQUID magnetometry to study quantum materials, including 2D materials, quantum magnetism, strongly correlated electron systems, and low-dimensional superconductors.