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Mike Ziebel is an assistant professor in the department of chemistry at Stanford University. The Ziebel research group works at the interface of chemistry, physics, and materials science, focusing on using understanding of local electronic structure in inorganic solid-state materials to identify and synthesize new compounds hosting unconventional electronic and magnetic ground states. In particular, the group leverages manipulation techniques developed by the 2D materials community—namely the ability to stack, twist, and strain van der Waals materials near the few-layer limit—as a new design parameter to access electronic and magnetic behavior that would be inaccessible using conventional synthetic tools. By combining these methods with local structural and electronic probes, as well as bulk property measurements, the group works towards its ultimate goal to achieve on-demand control of lattice, charge, and spin degrees of freedom in quantum materials, for the development of more energy-efficient electrical and magnetic devices.

Prior to joining Stanford, Prof. Ziebel was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, working jointly between the labs of Xavier Roy and Cory Dean to study correlated electron phases in new two-dimensional materials. He received his B.A. in chemistry from Northwestern University, where he pursued the synthesis of molecular electron donors for organic photovoltaic devices with Prof. Samuel Stupp, and his PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked with Prof. Jeff Long on electrically conductive metal–organic frameworks.

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Honors & Awards

  • Terman Faculty Fellowship, Stanford University (2026-2029)

Professional Education

  • Postdoc, Columbia University, Chemistry/Physics
  • PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Chemistry (2020)
  • BA, Northwestern University, Chemistry (2015)

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  • Superconductivity with a squeeze: Heavy-fermion materials NATURE PHYSICS Ziebel, M. E. 2026

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41567-026-03393-2

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  • Imaging Magnetic Switching in Orthogonally Twisted Stacks of a van der Waals Antiferromagnet. ACS nano Healey, A. J., Tan, C., Gross, B., Scholten, S. C., Xing, K., Chica, D. G., Johnson, B. C., Poggio, M., Ziebel, M. E., Roy, X., Tetienne, J. P., Broadway, D. A. 2025; 19 (50): 42140-42147

    Abstract

    Stacking van der Waals magnets holds promise for creating new hybrid materials with properties that do not exist in bulk materials. Here we investigate orthogonally twisted stacks of the van der Waals antiferromagnet CrSBr, aiming to exploit an extreme misalignment of magnetic anisotropy across the twisted interface. Using nitrogen-vacancy center microscopy, we construct vector maps of the magnetization, and track their evolution under an external field, in a range of orthogonally twisted compensated and uncompensated configurations differing by the number of layers. We show that twisted stacking consistently modifies the local magnetic switching behavior of constituent flakes, and that these modifications are spatially nonuniform. In the case of compensated component flakes (even number of layers), we demonstrate that the combination of dipolar coupling and stacking-induced strain can reduce the switching field by over an order of magnitude in the sample studied. Conversely, in uncompensated component flakes (odd number of layers), we observe indications of a nonzero interlayer exchange interaction between orthogonally twisted flakes during magnetization reversal, which can persistently modify magnetic order. This work highlights the importance of spatial imaging in investigating stacking-induced magnetic effects, particularly in the case of twistronics where spatial variation is expected and can be conflated with structural imperfections.

    View details for DOI 10.1021/acsnano.5c12297

    View details for PubMedID 41229087

  • Frustrated electron hopping from the orbital configuration in a two-dimensional lattice NATURE PHYSICS Devarakonda, A., Koay, C. S., Chica, D. G., Thinel, M., Kundu, A. K., Lin, Z., Georgescu, A. B., Rossi, S., Han, S., Ziebel, M. E., Holbrook, M. A., Rajapitamahuni, A., Vescovo, E., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Delor, M., Zhu, X., Pasupathy, A. N., Queiroz, R., Dean, C. R., Roy, X. 2025; 21 (8)

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41567-025-02953-2

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  • Glassy Relaxation Dynamics in the Two-Dimensional Heavy Fermion Antiferromagnet CeSiI. Nano letters Torres, K., Park, J. Y., Posey, V. A., Ziebel, M. E., Casaday, C. E., Anderton, K. J., Cui, D., Tang, B., Taniguchi, T., Watanabe, K., Pasupathy, A. N., Roy, X., Kim, P. 2025; 25 (17): 6848-6854

    Abstract

    The recent discovery of the van der Waals (vdW) layered heavy fermion antiferromagnetic metal CeSiI offers promising potential for achieving accessible quantum criticality in the two-dimensional (2D) limit. CeSiI exhibits both heavy fermion behavior and antiferromagnetic (AFM) ordering, while the exact magnetic structure and phase diagram are yet to be determined. Here, we investigate the magnetic properties of atomically thin CeSiI devices with thicknesses ranging from 2 to 15 vdW layers. The thickness-dependent magnetotransport measurement reveals the intrinsic 2D nature of heavy fermion behavior and antiferromagnetism. Notably, we also find an isotropic, time-dependent hysteresis in both magnetoresistance and Hall resistance, showing glassy relaxation dynamics. This glassy behavior in magnetic structures may suggest the presence of spin glass phases or multipolar ordering, further establishing CeSiI as an intriguing material system for investigating the interplay between magnetic orders and the Kondo effect.

    View details for DOI 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c05920

    View details for PubMedID 40237767

  • Charge Density Wave and Ferromagnetism in Intercalated CrSBr ADVANCED MATERIALS Feuer, M. L., Thinel, M., Huang, X., Cui, Z., Shao, Y., Kundu, A. K., Chica, D. G., Han, M., Pokratath, R., Telford, E. J., Cox, J., York, E., Okuno, S., Huang, C., Bukula, O., Nashabeh, L. M., Qiu, S., Nuckolls, C. P., Dean, C. R., Billinge, S. J. L., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y., Basov, D. N., Millis, A. J., Reichman, D. R., Pasupathy, A. N., Roy, X., Ziebel, M. E. 2025; 37 (24)

    View details for DOI 10.1002/adma.202418066

    View details for Web of Science ID 001463449500001

  • Imaging nanomagnetism and magnetic phase transitions in atomically thin CrSBr NATURE COMMUNICATIONS Tschudin, M. A., Broadway, D. A., Siegwolf, P., Schrader, C., Telford, E. J., Gross, B., Cox, J., Dubois, A. E. E., Chica, D. G., Rama-Eiroa, R., Santos, E. J. G., Poggio, M., Ziebel, M. E., Dean, C. R., Roy, X., Maletinsky, P. 2024; 15 (1)

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41467-024-49717-9

    View details for Web of Science ID 001272173500020

  • Important Elements of Spin-Exciton and Magnon-Exciton Coupling ACS PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AU Brennan, N. J., Noble, C. A., Tang, J., Ziebel, M. E., Bae, Y. 2024; 4 (4): 322-327

    View details for DOI 10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00010

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  • CrSBr: An Air-Stable, Two-Dimensional Magnetic Semiconductor NANO LETTERS Ziebel, M. E., Feuer, M. L., Cox, J., Zhu, X., Dean, C. R., Roy, X. 2024; 24 (15): 4319-4329

    View details for DOI 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c00624

    View details for Web of Science ID 001196553900001

  • Two-dimensional heavy fermions in the van der Waals metal CeSiI NATURE Posey, V. A., Turkel, S., Rezaee, M., Devarakonda, A., Kundu, A. K., Ong, C., Thinel, M., Chica, D. G., Vitalone, R. A., Jing, R., Xu, S., Needell, D. R., Meirzadeh, E., Feuer, M. L., Jindal, A., Cui, X., Valla, T., Thunstrom, P., Yilmaz, T., Vescovo, E., Graf, D., Zhu, X., Scheie, A., May, A. F., Eriksson, O., Basov, D. N., Dean, C. R., Rubio, A., Kim, P., Ziebel, M. E., Millis, A. J., Pasupathy, A. N., Roy, X. 2024; 625 (7995)

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41586-023-06868-x

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  • A layered metal confines heavy electrons to two dimensions. Nature 2024

    View details for DOI 10.1038/d41586-023-04111-1

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  • Designing Magnetic Properties in CrSBr through Hydrostatic Pressure and Ligand Substitution ADVANCED PHYSICS RESEARCH Telford, E. J., Chica, D. G., Ziebel, M. E., Xie, K., Manganaro, N. S., Huang, C., Cox, J., Dismukes, A. H., Zhu, X., Walsh, J. P. S., Cao, T., Dean, C. R., Roy, X. 2023; 2 (11)

    View details for DOI 10.1002/apxr.202300036

    View details for Web of Science ID 001281395900003

  • Exciton-coupled coherent magnons in a 2D semiconductor NATURE Bae, Y., Wang, J., Scheie, A., Xu, J., Chica, D. G., Diederich, G. M., Cenker, J., Ziebel, M. E., Bai, Y., Ren, H., Dean, C. R., Delor, M., Xu, X., Roy, X., Kent, A. D., Zhu, X. 2022; 609 (7926): 282-+

    Abstract

    The recent discoveries of two-dimensional (2D) magnets1-6 and their stacking into van der Waals structures7-11 have expanded the horizon of 2D phenomena. One exciting application is to exploit coherent magnons12 as energy-efficient information carriers in spintronics and magnonics13,14 or as interconnects in hybrid quantum systems15-17. A particular opportunity arises when a 2D magnet is also a semiconductor, as reported recently for CrSBr (refs. 18-20) and NiPS3 (refs. 21-23) that feature both tightly bound excitons with a large oscillator strength and potentially long-lived coherent magnons owing to the bandgap and spatial confinement. Although magnons and excitons are energetically mismatched by orders of magnitude, their coupling can lead to efficient optical access to spin information. Here we report strong magnon-exciton coupling in the 2D A-type antiferromagnetic semiconductor CrSBr. Coherent magnons launched by above-gap excitation modulate the exciton energies. Time-resolved exciton sensing reveals magnons that can coherently travel beyond seven micrometres, with a coherence time of above five nanoseconds. We observe these exciton-coupled coherent magnons in both even and odd numbers of layers, with and without compensated magnetization, down to the bilayer limit. Given the versatility of van der Waals heterostructures, these coherent 2D magnons may be a basis for optically accessible spintronics, magnonics and quantum interconnects.

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41586-022-05024-1

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  • Spin Waves and Magnetic Exchange Hamiltonian in CrSBr ADVANCED SCIENCE Scheie, A., Ziebel, M., Chica, D. G., Bae, Y., Wang, X., Kolesnikov, A. I., Zhu, X., Roy, X. 2022; 9 (25)

    View details for DOI 10.1002/advs.202202467

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  • Coupling between magnetic order and charge transport in a two-dimensional magnetic semiconductor. Nature materials Telford, E. J., Dismukes, A. H., Dudley, R. L., Wiscons, R. A., Lee, K., Chica, D. G., Ziebel, M. E., Han, M. G., Yu, J., Shabani, S., Scheie, A., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Xiao, D., Zhu, Y., Pasupathy, A. N., Nuckolls, C., Zhu, X., Dean, C. R., Roy, X. 2022; 21 (7): 754-760

    Abstract

    Semiconductors, featuring tunable electrical transport, and magnets, featuring tunable spin configurations, form the basis of many information technologies. A long-standing challenge has been to realize materials that integrate and connect these two distinct properties. Two-dimensional (2D) materials offer a platform to realize this concept, but known 2D magnetic semiconductors are electrically insulating in their magnetic phase. Here we demonstrate tunable electron transport within the magnetic phase of the 2D semiconductor CrSBr and reveal strong coupling between its magnetic order and charge transport. This provides an opportunity to characterize the layer-dependent magnetic order of CrSBr down to the monolayer via magnetotransport. Exploiting the sensitivity of magnetoresistance to magnetic order, we uncover a second regime characterized by coupling between charge carriers and magnetic defects. The magnetoresistance within this regime can be dynamically and reversibly tuned by varying the carrier concentration using an electrostatic gate, providing a mechanism for controlling charge transport in 2D magnets.

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41563-022-01245-x

    View details for PubMedID 35513502

  • Strong Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy Arising from Metal-Ligand Covalency in a Metal-Organic Candidate for 2D Magnetic Order CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS Wang, Y., Ziebel, M. E., Sun, L., Gish, J., Pearson, T. J., Lu, X., Thorarinsdottir, A. E., Hersam, M. C., Long, J. R., Freedman, D. E., Rondinelli, J. M., Puggioni, D., Harris, T. 2021; 33 (22): 8712-8721

    View details for DOI 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c02670

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  • Exchange Bias in a Layered Metal-Organic Topological Spin Glass. ACS central science Murphy, R. A., Darago, L. E., Ziebel, M. E., Peterson, E. A., Zaia, E. W., Mara, M. W., Lussier, D., Velasquez, E. O., Shuh, D. K., Urban, J. J., Neaton, J. B., Long, J. R. 2021; 7 (8): 1317-1326

    Abstract

    The discovery of conductive and magnetic two-dimensional (2D) materials is critical for the development of next generation spintronics devices. Coordination chemistry in particular represents a highly versatile, though underutilized, route toward the synthesis of such materials with designer lattices. Here, we report the synthesis of a conductive, layered 2D metal-organic kagome lattice, Mn3(C6S6), using mild solution-phase chemistry. Strong geometric spin frustration in this system mediates spin freezing at low temperatures, which results in glassy magnetic dynamics consistent with a rare geometrically frustrated (topological) spin glass. Notably, we show that this geometric frustration engenders a large, tunable exchange bias of 1625 Oe in Mn3(C6S6), providing the first example of exchange bias in a coordination solid or a topological spin glass. Exchange bias is a critical component in a number of spintronics applications, but it is difficult to rationally tune, as it typically arises due to structural disorder. This work outlines a new strategy for engineering exchange bias systems using single-phase, crystalline lattices. More generally, these results demonstrate the potential utility of geometric frustration in the design of new nanoscale spintronic materials.

    View details for DOI 10.1021/acscentsci.1c00568

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  • Crystallographic characterization of the metal-organic framework Fe<sub>2</sub>(bdp)<sub>3</sub>upon reductive cation insertion CHEMICAL SCIENCE Biggins, N., Ziebel, M. E., Gonzalez, M., Long, J. R. 2020; 11 (34): 9173-9180

    View details for DOI 10.1039/d0sc03383a

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  • Selective, High-Temperature O2 Adsorption in Chemically Reduced, Redox-Active Iron-Pyrazolate Metal-Organic Frameworks. Journal of the American Chemical Society Jaffe, A., Ziebel, M. E., Halat, D. M., Biggins, N., Murphy, R. A., Chakarawet, K., Reimer, J. A., Long, J. R. 2020; 142 (34): 14627-14637

    Abstract

    Developing O2-selective adsorbents that can produce high-purity oxygen from air remains a significant challenge. Here, we show that chemically reduced metal-organic framework materials of the type AxFe2(bdp)3 (A = Na+, K+; bdp2- = 1,4-benzenedipyrazolate; 0 < x ≤ 2), which feature coordinatively saturated iron centers, are capable of strong and selective adsorption of O2 over N2 at ambient (25 °C) or even elevated (200 °C) temperature. A combination of gas adsorption analysis, single-crystal X-ray diffraction, magnetic susceptibility measurements, and a range of spectroscopic methods, including 23Na solid-state NMR, Mössbauer, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopies, are employed as probes of O2 uptake. Significantly, the results support a selective adsorption mechanism involving outer-sphere electron transfer from the framework to form superoxide species, which are subsequently stabilized by intercalated alkali metal cations that reside in the one-dimensional triangular pores of the structure. We further demonstrate O2 uptake behavior similar to that of AxFe2(bdp)3 in an expanded-pore framework analogue and thereby gain additional insight into the O2 adsorption mechanism. The chemical reduction of a robust metal-organic framework to render it capable of binding O2 through such an outer-sphere electron transfer mechanism represents a promising and underexplored strategy for the design of next-generation O2 adsorbents.

    View details for DOI 10.1021/jacs.0c06570

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  • Two-dimensional, conductive niobium and molybdenum metal-organic frameworks CHEMICAL SCIENCE Ziebel, M. E., Ondry, J. C., Long, J. R. 2020; 11 (26): 6690-6700

    View details for DOI 10.1039/d0sc02515a

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  • Metal-Diamidobenzoquinone Frameworks via Post-Synthetic Linker Exchange JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Liu, L., Li, L., Ziebel, M. E., Harris, T. 2020; 142 (10): 4705-4713

    View details for DOI 10.1021/jacs.9b11952

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  • Effects of Covalency on Anionic Redox Chemistry in Semiquinoid-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Ziebel, M. E., Gaggioli, C., Turkiewicz, A. B., Ryu, W., Gagliardi, L., Long, J. R. 2020; 142 (5): 2653-2664

    View details for DOI 10.1021/jacs.9b13050

    View details for Web of Science ID 000512222700071

  • Control of Electronic Structure and Conductivity in Two-Dimensional Metal Semiquinoid Frameworks of Titanium, Vanadium, and Chromium JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Ziebel, M. E., Darago, L. E., Long, J. R. 2018; 140 (8): 3040-3051

    View details for DOI 10.1021/jacs.7b13510

    View details for Web of Science ID 000426617700050

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