Group Leader



Administrative Assistant



Current Students



Postdoctoral Fellows



Collaborators


  • Dr. Marco Fornari (Central Michigan University, associate professor)
  • Dr. Giovanni Cantele (University of Naples, assistant professor)
  • Dr. Oswaldo Dieguez (Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona, research scientist)
  • Dr. Paolo Umari (Democritos, Trieste, research scientist)
  • Amélie Juhin (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, graduate student)
  • Hatem Helal (University of Cambridge, graduate student)


Alumni


  • Dr. Timo Thonhauser (DMSE, visiting scientist: Aug 2006 - Jul 2007, research associate: Aug 2007 - Jul 2008)
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Wake Forest University
Postdoctoral researcher, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris, France).
NSF Postdoctoral researcher, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (Bangalore, India).
Lecturer (i.e. Assistant Professor), Department of Physics, and Department of Materials, Imperial College (London, UK).
  • Dr. Young-Su Lee (DMSE, graduate student 2001-2006, postdoc Aug 2006 - Aug 2007)
Senior Research Scientist, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea).
Research Scientist, Bosch GMBH (Cambridge, MA).
Lecturer (i.e. Assistant Professor), Department of Physics, King's College (London, UK).
  • Chen Li (Physics, undergraduate UROP Spring 2007).
Graduate student, Physics Department, Cornell University.
  • Patrick Sit (Physics, graduate student 2002-2006).
Postdoctoral researcher with Prof M. Klein, University of Pennsylvania.
  • Michael Tambe (DMSE, graduate student 2006).
Graduate student, Prof. Silvija Gradecak, DMSE.
  • Dr. Matteo Cococcioni (DMSE, postdoc Jan 2003 - Aug 2006).
Assistant professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota.
  • Dr. Manu Sharma (DMSE, short-term postdoc Sep 2005 - Dec 2005).
Postdoctoral researcher with Prof. G. Galli, University of California Davis.
  • Krzystof Niemkiewicz (high school RSI Scholar, Summer 2006).
  • Janet Ryu (DMSE, undergraduate UROP, Sep 2005 - May 2006).
  • Adam Chao (Physics, undergraduate UROP, Sep 2005 - Jan 2006).
  • Dr. Paolo Umari. (DMSE, postdoc Jan 2004 - Dec 2005).
Research scientist, Democritos National Simulation Center, and Elettra synchrotron (Trieste, Italy).
  • Dr. Damián Scherlis (DMSE, postdoc May 2002 - Sep 2005).
Research scientist, CONICET and Departamento de Quimica Inorganica, University of Buenos Aires.
  • Giacomo Ferrari (Dublin Jerome High School, Dublin OH, Summer 2005).
  • Nicolas Mounet (DMSE, graduate student, MSc 2004-2005).
Research scientist, Michelin (Clermont-Ferrand, France).
  • Cody Friesen (DMSE, graduate student).
Assistant professor, Arizona State University.
  • Mayeul d'Avezac (Physics, Paris VI, visiting graduate student, Jan 2004 - Sep 2004).
Postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Alex Zunger (NREL).
  • Caleb Ng (high school RSI Scholar, Libertyville High School, Summer 2004).
Undergraduate student, Caltech.
  • Mikael Rechtsman (Physics, undergraduate, May 2002 - May 2003).
Graduate student with Prof. Sal Torquato and Prof. Frank Stillinger (Physics, Princeton University).
  • Ann Chi (high school RSI Scholar, Terre Haute South Vigo High School, Summer 2003).
Undergraduate student, Harvard University.
  • Luke Shulenburger (Physics, undergraduate, Spring 2002).
Graduate student with Prof. Richard Martin (Physics, UIUC).