Julia Mundy

Julia Mundy serves as Assistant Professor of Physics at Harvard University, a position she assumed in 2018 after serving as Research Associate in Physics at the same institution. Her research centers on atomic-scale design and synthesis of quantum materials, with particular focus on emergent phenomena in complex oxide thin films where interfaces enable engineering of exotic physical states.

She completed her Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Cornell University in 2014, followed by an AAAS Fellowship at the US Department of Education (2014-2015), and postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley with affiliation at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2015-2017).

Prof. Mundy's work pioneers methods to create metastable materials through thin-film epitaxy, achieving breakthroughs like room-temperature multiferroics with coexisting magnetic and electric order. Her research leverages broken symmetry at material interfaces, epitaxial strain, and chemical potential offsets to induce novel superconducting and topologically protected states in frustrated magnetic systems.

Her major recognitions include:

• Materials Research Prize for Young Investigators (2019)
• George E. Valley, Jr. Prize from American Physical Society (2018)
• Moore Fellowship in Materials Synthesis (2018)
• Oxide Electronics Prize for Excellence in Research (2017)

Supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and previously affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, her current work continues to explore interface-engineered quantum phenomena. The available information does not specify graduate student advisees or active research grants beyond fellowship support.