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Philip Moll is a director at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, Germany, where he leads the Microstructured Quantum Matter department, and a professor at the University of Hamburg. Since 2026 he also holds a Distinguished Professorship at Tohoku University in Japan.
His research explores how the size and shape of a crystal change the physics inside it. His group pioneered the use of focused ion beam machining to sculpt single crystals of quantum materials into three-dimensional structures on the micrometer scale, turning sample geometry from a nuisance into an experimental tool. With these bespoke devices, the group studies electronic transport in strongly correlated and topological materials. Highlights include the first direct evidence of hydrodynamic electron flow in ultra-clean delafossite metals, field-induced nematicity and strain-engineered superconductivity in heavy-fermion compounds, Weyl-orbit and quasi-symmetry-protected transport in topological semimetals, and, most recently, magnetically switchable electronic chirality in the kagome metal CsV₃Sb₅.
Philip studied physics at ETH Zurich and received his PhD there in 2012 in the group of Bertram Batlogg, where he first used focused ion beam fabrication to study iron-based superconductors in high magnetic fields. After postdoctoral work at ETH and at UC Berkeley with James Analytis on topological semimetals, he was awarded an independent Max Planck Research Group at the MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden in 2015. In 2018 he joined EPFL in Lausanne as a tenure-track assistant professor at the Institute of Materials, before taking up his current position in Hamburg in 2022. His work has been recognized with the ETH Medal (2013), the ABB Award of the Swiss Physical Society (2014) and the Nicholas Kurti Science Prize (2018), and he was named a World Economic Forum Young Scientist in 2020. In 2025 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has received two ERC grants (Starting Grant 2017, Consolidator Grant 2023) and a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship, and serves on the steering committee of the European FIB Network and the scientific advisory committee of HFML-FELIX.
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