Beatriz Noheda is a Full Professor of Physics at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, where she chairs the Solid State Materials for Electronics group at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1996. Following her doctoral studies, Beatriz held research positions at the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and served as a tenure-track Assistant Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where she was also a beamline scientist at the National Synchrotron Light Source. She joined the University of Groningen in 2004 as a Rosalind Franklin Fellow and was appointed Full Professor in 2014.

Beatriz’s research focuses on the physics of ferroelectric, piezoelectric, and multiferroic materials, with particular emphasis on symmetry, phase transitions, and domain nanostructures in complex oxides and thin films. Her work has led to seminal advances in the understanding of giant piezoelectricity in lead zirconate titanate and ferroelectric relaxors, as well as low-symmetry phases underlying enhanced electromechanical responses, bridging fundamental condensed-matter physics and functional materials design. More recently, her interest has expanded to emergent memory devices and learning in-materio, also with ferroelectrics as her main focus.

Beatriz has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and is a frequent invited speaker at major international conferences, including numerous plenary and keynote lectures. Her contributions have been recognized with the IEEE Robert E. Newnham Ferroelectrics Award, and she is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. She is an elected member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation (AcTI) and a Senior Member of IEEE. Beatriz has held extensive leadership and service roles, including membership on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science and editorial boards of several leading journals. From 2018 to 2025, she served as the founding Director of the Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials Center (CogniGron), and she continues her work there as a principal investigator.