Cristiane de Morais Smith

Cristiane de Morais Smith Lehner
EducationUniversity of Campinas (BSc physics 1985), (MSc, 1989), (PhD, 1994)
Scientific career
FieldsStrongly-correlated systems, condensed matter
InstitutionsUniversity of Utrecht
Doctoral advisorProf. Amir Caldeira, Prof. Gianni Blatter

Cristiane de Morais Smith Lehner is a Brazilian theoretical physicist and professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Utrecht, where she leads a research group studying condensed matter physics, cold atoms and strongly-correlated systems. In 2019, the European Physical Society awarded Morais Smith its Emmy Noether Distinction.

Morais Smith has authored or co-authored over 100 academic papers, including articles in Nature Communications, Physical Review, and Physical Review B, where several of her papers have been recognized as "Editors Choice" and "Scientific Highlights". As of March 2020, her work has received over 2900 citations.

In addition, Morais Smith is an editor for the European Journal of Physics B, which focuses on condensed matter and complex systems.