CV Mikhail Eremets

Born: January 3, 1949 in Belarus

Died: November 16, 2024 in Mainz, Germany


Employment Background

  • 2001 to November 16, 2024 Group leader of the High Pressure Chemistry and Physics Group, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz.
  • 2008 Visiting professor ISSP Tokyo University.
  • 1998-2001 Senior Research Scientist, Carnegie Institution for Science, Geophysical Lab, Washington DC.
  • 1996-98 Visiting Professor, Research Center for Extreme Materials, Osaka University, Japan.
  • 1995-1996 Center of Excellence fellow, NIRIM, Tsukuba, Japan.
  • 1992-1995 Director of the High-Pressure Physics Department, High Pressure Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of Russia, Troitsk, Moscow region.
  • 1976-1992 Researcher, Senior Researcher, Institute for High Pressure Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Academic Background

  • 1973 Combined B.S. and M.S in Physics, Department of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow Physical Engineering Institute, Moscow, USSR.
  • 1978 Ph.D. in Physics (Solid State Physics), Thesis: "Electronic structure of the valence band of Tellurium under pressure". Moscow Institute of General Physics Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

Principal Publications
1. Drozdov A. P., P. P. Kong, V. S. Minkov, S. P. Besedin, M. A. Kuzovnikov, S. Mozaffari, L. Balicas, F. F. Balakirev, D. E. Graf, V. B. Prakapenka, E. Greenberg, D. A. Knyazev, M. Tkacz, and M. I. Eremets (2019) Superconductivity at 250 K in lanthanum hydride under high pressures. Nature, 569, 528. One of ten the most remarkable papers in Nature magazine in 2019.

2. Drozdov A. P., M. I. Eremets, I. A. Troyan, V. Ksenofontov, S. I. Shylin (2015) Conventional superconductivity at 203 kelvin at high pressures in the sulfur hydride system. Nature, 525, 73.

3. Eremets M. I., A. P. Drozdov, P. P. Kong and H. Wang (2019) Semimetallic molecular hydrogen at pressure above 350 GPa. Nature Physics, 15, 1246.

4. Minkov, V. S., V. Ksenofontov, S. L. Budko, E. F. Talantsev and M. I. Eremets (2023). "Trapped magnetic flux in hydrogen-rich high-temperature superconductors " Nature Physics, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02089-1.

5. Einaga, M., M. Sakata, T. Ishikawa, K. Shimizu, M. Eremets, A. Drozdov, I. Troyan, N. Hirao and Y. Ohishi (2016). "Crystal Structure of the Superconducting Phase of Sulfur Hydride." Nature Physics 12, 835.

6. Capitani, F., B. Langerome, J.-B. Brubach, P. Roy, A. Drozdov, M. I. Eremets, E. J. Nicol, J. P. Carbotte and T. Timusk (2017). "Spectroscopic evidence of a new energy scale for superconductivity in H3S." Nature Physics 13, 859.

7. Eremets, M. I., V. S. Minkov, P. P. Kong, A. P. Drozdov, S. Chariton and V. B. Prakapenka (2023). "Universal diamond edge Raman scale to 0.5 terapascal and implications for the metallization of hydrogen." Nature Communications 14, 907.

8. Minkov, V. S., S. L. Bud’ko, F. F. Balakirev, V. B. Prakapenka, S. Chariton, R. J. Husband, H. P. Liermann and M. I. Eremets (2022). "Magnetic field screening in hydrogen-rich high-temperature superconductors." Nature Communications 13, 3194.

9. Purans, J., A. P. Menushenkov, S. Besedin, A. A. Ivanov, V. Minkov, I. Pudza, A. Kuzmin, K. V. Klementiev, S. Pascarelli, O. Mathon, A. D. Rosa, T. Irifune and M. I. Eremets (2021). "Local electronic structure rearrangements and strong anharmonicity in YH3 under pressures up to 180 GPa." Nature Communications 12, 1765.

10. Kong, P. P., V. S. Minkov, M. A. Kuzovnikov, A. P. Drozdov, S. P. Besedin, S. Mozaffari, L. Balicas, F. F. Balakirev, V. B. Prakapenka, S. Chariton, D. A. Knyazev, E. Greenberg and M. I. Eremets (2021). "Superconductivity up to 243 K in the yttrium-hydrogen system under high pressure." Nature Communications 12, 5075.

11. Mozaffari, S., D. Sun, V. S. Minkov, A. P. Drozdov, D. Knyazev, J. B. Betts, M. Einaga, K. Shimizu, M. I. Eremets, L.Balicas and F. F. Balakirev (2019). "Superconducting phase diagram of H3S under high magnetic fields." Nature Communications 10, 2522.

12. Eremets M. I. and I. A. Troyan (2011) Conductive dense hydrogen. Nature Materials, 10, 927.

13. Ma, Y, M. Eremets, A. R. Oganov, Yu Xie, I. Trojan, S. Medvedev, A. O. Lyakhov, M. Valle, V. Prakapenka l (2009) Transparent dense sodium. Nature, 458, 182.

14. Medvedev, S., T. M. McQueen, I. A. Troyan, T. Palasyuk M. I. Eremets, R. J. Cava, S. Naghavi, F Casper, V. Ksenofontov, G. Wortmann and C. Felser (2009) Electronic and magnetic phase diagram of Fe1 :01 Se with superconductivity at 36.7 K under pressure. Nature Materials, 8, 630.

15. Eremets M. I., A.G. Gavriliuk, I.A. Trojan, D. A. Dzivenko, R. Boehler (2004) Single-bonded cubic form of nitrogen. Nature Materials 3, 558.

16. Eremets M. I., R. J. Hemley, H.-k. Mao, E. Gregoryanz (2001) Semiconducting non-molecular nitrogen up to 240 GPa and its low-pressure stability, Nature, 411, 170.

17. Eremets, M. I., I. A. Trojan, S. A. Medvedev, J. S. Tse, Y. Yao (2008) Superconductivity in hydrogen dominant materials: Silane. Science, 319, 1506.

18. Eremets, M. I., V. Struzhkin, H.K. Mao, R. J. Hemley (2001) Superconductivity in Boron. Science, 293, 272.

19. Struzhkin, V. V., M. I. Eremets, W. Gan, H.K. Mao. R. J. Hemley (2002) Superconductivity in dense lithium. Science, 298, 1213.

20. Eremets, M. I., K. Shimizu, T. C. Kobayashi, K. Amaya (1998) Metallic Csl at pressures of up to 220 GPa. Science, 281, 1333.

21. Shimizu, K., K. Suhara, M. lkumo, M. I. Eremets, K. Amaya (1998) Superconductivity in oxygen, Nature, 393, 767-9.

22. Eremets, M. I. High-pressures experimental methods (1996) Oxford University Press, 390 pages.

Other Contributions

  • More than 400 invited lectures and seminars.
  • European Research Council Advanced Grant “Exploring conductive and metallic hydrogen”, 2011-2016

Profession Honors

  • Bernd T. Matthias Prize for superconducting materials 2022.
  • The Bragg Lecture at University College London 2023.
  • Bodo-von-Borries Special lecture 2022.
  • James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials of the American Physical Society's 2020.
  • Breakthrough Winner in Physical Sciences, Falling Walls, Berlin 2020.
  • Bridgman Award AIRAPT 2017.
  • Honorary Doctor Degree from Leipzig University, Germany 2016.
  • Ugo Fano Gold Medal 2015.
  • On the list of Nature’s 10: Ten people who mattered this year 2015.
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