Paul M. Neves

Paul M. Neves is a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Institute for Quantum Matter at Johns Hopkins University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from MIT, where he worked with Joseph Checkelsky on flat bands and magnetism in frustrated lattice compounds, and his B.S. in Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he began his research career studying skyrmion materials and neutron instrumentation at UMD and the NIST Center for Neutron Research.

His research focuses on experimental condensed matter physics in quantum materials where lattice geometry, electronic structure, and magnetism conspire to produce new collective states. Recent themes include electronic flat bands in real materials, frustrated and incommensurate magnetism, spin moiré superlattices, spiral spin liquids, strange metallicity, and field-enhanced or unconventional superconductivity. He is especially interested in materials in which electronic and magnetic degrees of freedom are strongly intertwined, allowing transport, spectroscopy, and scattering measurements to reveal the microscopic mechanisms behind emergent phases.

Neves combines neutron scattering, ARPES, quantum oscillations, transport, torque magnetometry, and measurements under extreme conditions including low temperature, high magnetic field, pressure, and strain. His work spans material discovery, magnetic-structure solution, electronic-structure characterization, and the development of experimental tools and analysis software, including instrumentation and visualization methods for neutron scattering experiments.