Elke Arenholz

Elke Arenholz is a German American physicist working in the field magnetic materials and X-ray spectroscopy, where she pioneered the use of superconducting vector magnets to study X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD). She is the associate director of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS).
Education and career.
Arenholz earned her masters of science from the University of Regensburg, and her PhD from the Free University of Berlin, in Germany. In 1996 she joined the Advanced Light Source, in Berkeley, California as postdoctoral fellow, before joining the staff in 2000. From 2013 to 2019 she was also an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, at the University of California, Berkeley. She became a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014. In 2019, she joined CHESS in Ithaca, NY, as the associate director.