{"id":355,"date":"2023-09-21T14:36:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T14:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tickle1stg.wpenginepowered.com\/mse\/?page_id=355"},"modified":"2023-10-02T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T14:49:06","slug":"veerle-keppens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/faculty\/veerle-keppens\/","title":{"rendered":"Veerle Keppens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chancellor’s Professor, Department Head<\/p>\n

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\"Veerle<\/div>\n
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Contact Information<\/h3>\n

414F Ferris Hall,
\n1508 Middle Drive,
\nKnoxville, TN 37996-2100<\/p>\n

Phone<\/b>
\n865-974-5336<\/p>\n

Email<\/b>
\nvkeppens@utk.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Research Areas<\/h3>\n
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  • Elastic constants and lattice dynamics of novel materials, including transition metal oxides<\/li>\n
  • frustrated magnets and spin glasses<\/li>\n
  • thermoelectric materials<\/li>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Biography<\/h2>\n

    Veerle Keppens earned her bachelor\u2019s degree (1989) and PhD (1995) in Physics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Her dissertation research included the study of the anomalous properties of disordered solids at low temperatures. From 1995 to 1998, Keppens was a Fulbright fellow in the novel materials group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where she became interested in the elastic properties of new materials. In 1998, she received a Humboldt-fellowship to do research at the Institut fuer angewandte Physik in Heidelberg. In 1999, Keppens joined the faculty in the Physics Department at the University of Mississippi. There she taught courses in introductory physics and modern physics, and set-up a laboratory for Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy. In 2003, she joined the faculty at the University of Tennessee, where she continues to study the elastic properties and lattice dynamics of novel materials. Keppens has authored or co-authored over 50 technical papers and has contributed to over 70 (15 invited) technical presentations at national and international conferences.<\/p>\n

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    Education<\/h3>\n
      \n
    • BS, K.U. Leuven (Belgium), 1989<\/li>\n
    • PhD, K.U. Leuven (Belgium), 1995
      \nMaterials Physics and Physical Acoustics; elastic properties and lattice dynamics of novel materials<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Professional Service<\/h3>\n
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      • APS Member<\/li>\n
      • ASA Member<\/li>\n
      • ASM Member<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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        Awards & Recognitions<\/h3>\n
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        • 2017 UT Angie Warren Perkins Award<\/li>\n
        • 2011 Fellow, Acoustical Society of America<\/li>\n
        • 2011 Faculty award for excellence in research, Department of Materials Science and Engineering<\/li>\n
        • 2009 College of Engineering Research Fellow<\/li>\n
        • 2009 Outstanding service award, Department of Materials Science and Engineering<\/li>\n
        • 2007 University of Tennessee Chancellor\u2019s award for professional promise in research and creative achievement<\/li>\n
        • 2005 University of Tennessee Dept. Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Young Faculty Researcher Award<\/li>\n
        • 1998 Alexander von Humboldt fellowship<\/li>\n
        • 1995-1996 Fulbright-Hays fellowship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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          Research Publications<\/h3>\n
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          1. Structural and magnetic properties of Tb6Fe1-xCoxBi2\u00a0(x=0, 0.125, 0.25, 0.375) compounds, L.Jia, M. Koehler, D. McCarthy, M. McGuire and\u00a0V. Keppens<\/strong>, Journal of Applied Physics\u00a0109<\/strong>, 07E331 (2011).<\/li>\n
          2. Elastic moduli and magnetostriction of Tb6<\/em>CoxFe1-x(Bi,Sb)2\u00a0(0 = x = 0.375), M. Koehler, L. Jia, D. McCarthy, and\u00a0V. Keppens<\/strong>, Journal of Applied Physics\u00a0109<\/strong>, 07A918 (2011).<\/li>\n
          3. Effects of Nematic Fluctuations on the elastic properties of Iron Arsenide superconductors,<\/em>Rafael M. Fernandes, Lindsay H. VanBebber, Shobo Bhattacharya, Premala Chandra,\u00a0Veerle Keppens<\/strong>, David Mandrus, Michael A. McGuire, Brian C. Sales, Athena S. Sefat, and Joerg Schmalian, Physical Review Letters\u00a0105<\/strong>, 157003 (2010).<\/li>\n
          4. Elastic moduli of superhard rhenium diboride<\/em>, M. Koehler,\u00a0V. Keppens<\/strong>, R. Jin, B.C. Sales, and D. Mandrus,\u00a0 Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics\u00a042,\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0095414 (2009).<\/li>\n
          5. Phase transitions in LaFeAsO: Structural, magnetic, elastic, and transport properties, heat capacity and M\u00d6ssbauer spectra<\/em>, Michael A. McGuire, Andrew D. Christianson, Athena S. Sefat, Brian C. Sales, Mark D. Lumsden, Rongying Jin, E. Andrew Payzant, David Mandrus, Yanbing Luan ,\u00a0Veerle Keppens<\/strong>, Vijayalaksmi Varadarajan, Joseph W. Brill, Rapha\u00ebl P. Hermann, Moulay T. Sougrati and Fernande Grandjean, and Gary J. Long, Physical Review B\u00a078<\/strong>, 094517 (2008).<\/li>\n
          6. Dumbbell Rattling in Thermoelectric Zinc Antimony<\/em>, W. Schweika, R. P. Hermann, M. Prager, J. PerBon, and\u00a0V. Keppens<\/strong>, Physical Review Letters, 98, 15501 (2007).<\/li>\n
          7. Glass transition in metallic glasses: A microscopic model of topological fluctuations in the bonding network<\/em>, T. Egami, S. J. Poon, Z. Zhang, and\u00a0V. Keppens<\/strong>, Physical Review B, 76, 024203\u00a0 (2007).<\/li>\n
          8. Direct Experimental Evidence for Atomic Tunneling of Europium in Crystalline Eu8Ga16Ge30,<\/em>R.P. Hermann,\u00a0V. Keppens<\/strong>, P. Bonville, G.S. Nolas, F. Grandjean, G.J. Long, H.M. Christen, B.C. Chakoumakos, B.C. Sales, and D. Mandrus, Physical Review Letters\u00a097<\/strong>, 017401 (2006).<\/li>\n
          9. Four-well tunneling states and elastic response of clathrates,\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>I. Zerec,\u00a0V. Keppens<\/strong>, M. McGuire, D. Mandrus, B. C. Sales, and P. Thalmeier, Physical Review Letters\u00a092<\/strong>, 185502 (2004).<\/li>\n
          10. Metallic \u201cFerroelectricity\u201d in the Pyrochlore Cd2Re2O7<\/em>\u00a0,\u00a0 I. A. Sergienko,\u00a0V. Keppens<\/strong>, M. McGuire, R. Jin, J. He, S. H. Curnoe, B. C. Sales, P. Blaha, D. J. Singh, K. Schwarz, and D. Mandrus, Physical Review Letters\u00a092<\/strong>, 065501 (2004).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n


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