My research interests focus on the physics of strongly correlated electrons systems, where electronic properties hinge on the collective interplay between charge, spin, and orbital degrees of freedom. In many of these material systems, electronic correlations are tuned by chemical doping. In proximity to local dopants, various electronic phases and ordering phenomena compete at the nanoscale, resulting in a rich phase diagram with emerging quantum states of matter. Consequently, spatial electronic inhomogeneity becomes an intrinsic property of correlated electron systems, whose detailed understanding demands the use of local spectroscopic probes.
