Claudia Felser was born in
Aachen, Germany in 1962. Felser studied chemistry and physics at the
University of Cologne, completing her diploma in solid state chemistry (1989) and her doctorate in physical chemistry (1994). After postdoctoral fellowships at the
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany (1994–1995) with
Arndt Simon and Ole Krogh Andersen, she moved to the
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Nantes, France (1995–1996), where she worked in the group of
Jean Rouxel. Afterwards, she joined the
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in 1996 as an assistant professor (C1). She resided there in 2002 and was appointed to a full professor (C4) in 2003. In 1999, she was a visiting professor at
Princeton University and, in 2000, at the
University of Caen. From 2009 to 2010 she was a visiting professor at
Stanford University and in 2019 visiting professor at
Harvard University in the department of Physics/ Applied Physics. == Research ==