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Dr. Monica Allen

Monica Allen

Former: Postdoctoral Fellow (June 2016 - Feb 2019)

Current: Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego

[Email]


Dr. N. Peter Armitage

Dr. N. Peter Armitage

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Professor, Johns Hopkins University

[Email | Website]


Dr. Felix Baumberger

Dr. Felix Baumberger

Former: Postdoc

Current: Professor, University of Geneva, Switzerland

[Email | Website]


Dr. Pavel Bogdanov

Dr. Pavel Bogdanov

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Partner, Almza Capital

[Website]


Dr. Veronique Brouet

Dr. Veronique Brouet

Former: Visiting Scientist

Current: Research Director, University Paris-Sud, France

[Email | Website]


Dr. Su-Di Chen

Dr. Su-Di Chen

Former: Ph.D. Student (01/2014 - 06/2021)

Current: Heising-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute, UC Berkeley

[Email]


Dr. Xudong Chen

Dr. Xudong Chen

Former: Visiting Professor

Current: Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore

[Email]


Dr. Yulin Chen

Dr. Yulin Chen

Former: Ph.D. Student, Postdoc, and Associate Staff Scientist

Current: Associate Professor, University of Oxford, UK

[Email | Website]


 Dr. Zhuoyu Chen

Former: Postdoc

Current: Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

[Email]


Dr. Bing Cheng

Former: Postdoc

Current: Postdoc, Ames Laboratory

[Email]


Dr. Laura Chaix

Dr. Laura Chaix

Former: Postdoctoral Scholar (January 2015 - December 2016)

Current: Postdoctoral Scholar, Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA Saclay

[Email]


Dr. Yongtao Cui

Dr. Yongtao Cui

Former: Postdoctoral Scholar (September 2011 - July 2016)

Current: Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside

[Email]


Dr. Will Clay

Dr. Will Clay

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Senior Analytical Scientist, QD Vision Inc.

 


Dr. Tanja Cuk

Dr. Tanja Cuk

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley

[Email | Website]


Dr. Andrea Damascelli

Dr. Andrea Damascelli

Former: Postdoc

Current: Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada

[Email | Website]


Dr. Daniel Dessau

Dr. Daniel Dessau

Former: Ph.D. Student and Postdoc

Current: Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder

[Email | Website]


Ross Dunkel

Ross Dunkel

Former: Graduate Student

Current: Test Engineer, Ball Systems

 


Dr. Hiroshi Eisaki

Dr. Hiroshi Eisaki

Former: Visiting Scientist

Current: Senior Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

[Email | Website]


Dr. Donglai Feng

Dr. Donglai Feng

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Professor, Fudan University, China; Director, National Key Laboratory for Applied Surface Science, China

[Email | Website]


Dr. Zhuoluo (Albert) Feng

Dr. Zhuoluo (Albert) Feng

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Business Consultant, China Resources Power

[Email ]


Dr. Stuart Friedman

Dr. Stuart Friedman

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Co-founder and CEO, PrimeNano Inc.

[Email | Website]


Dr. Shinichi Fujimori

Dr. Shinichi Fujimori

Former: Visiting Scientist

Current: Research Staff, Spring 08, Japan

 


Dr. Alexandre Gauthier

Dr. Alexandre Gauthier

Former: Graduate Student

Current: Apple Inc.

[Email]


Dr. Nicolas Gauthier

Dr. Nicolas Gauthier

Former: Postdoc

Current: Postdoc at Université de Sherbrooke & Institut Quantique, Canada

[Email]


Dr. Simon Gerber

Dr. Simon Gerber

Former: Postdoc (2013 - 2015)

Current: Scientist and Group Leader, Quantum Technologies, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

[Email]


Dr. Dandan Guan

Former: Visiting Scholar

Current: Research Associate, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

[Email]


Dr. Jeff Harris

Dr. Jeff Harris

Former: Postdoc

Current: Principal, Riley Creek Capital Management, LLC

[Email]


Dr. M. Zahid Hasan

Dr. M. Zahid Hasan

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Professor, Princeton University

[Email | Website]


Dr. Makoto Hashimoto

Dr. Makoto Hashimoto

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Beamline Scientist, SSRL, SLAC

[Email | Website]


Dr. Junfeng He

Dr. Junfeng He

Former: Postdoc (October 2015 - March 2018)

[Email]

 


Dr. Ruihua He

Dr. Ruihua He

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Assistant Professor, Boston College

[Email | Website]


Dr. Yu He

Dr. Yu He

Former: Graduate Student (09/2010- 07/2019)

Current: Assistant Professor, Yale University

[Email]


Dr. Matthias Hepting

Dr. Matthias Hepting

Former: Postdoc (February 2017 - June 2018)

Current: Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

[Email]


Dr. Yuwen Hu

Former: Postdoc

[Email]


Dr. Jinwoong Hwang

Former: Postdoc

Current: Assistant Professor, Kangwon National University, South Korea

[Email]


Dr. Nicholas Ingle

Dr. Nicholas Ingle

Former: Postdoc

Current: Senior Research Scientist, Kinestral Technologies Inc.

 


Akihiro Ino

Former: Visiting Student

Current: Associate Professor, Hiroshima University, Japan

[Email | Website]


Hitoshi Ishiwata

Hitoshi Ishiwata

Former: Ph.D. student (2008 - 2015)

Current: Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

[Email]


Tao Jia

Tao Jia

Former: Ph.D. student (2014-2020)

Current: Hardware Engineer, Apple

[Email]


Scott Johnston

Scott Johnston

Former: Ph.D. student (2013 - 2018)

Current: Hardware Engineer, Apple

[Email]


Dr. Scot Kellar

Dr. Scot Kellar

Former: Postdoc

Current: Board Chair, Bend Science Station. Package/Thermal/Power Lead, Intel Corporation


Dr. Chang Young Kim

Dr. Chang Young Kim

Former: Postdoc and Research Associate

Current: Professor, Seoul National University, South Korea

[Email]


Dr. Dave King

Dr. Dave King

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Co-Founder, BestInClass.com

[Website]


Dr. Patrick Kirchmann

Dr. Patrick Kirchmann

Former: Postdoc (2009-2011)

Current: Staff Scientist, SLAC

[Website]


Dr. Worasom Fern Kundhikanjana

Dr. Worasom Fern Kundhikanjana

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Lecturer, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand

[Email]


Dr. Keji Lai

Dr. Keji Lai

Former: Postdoc

Current: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin

[Email | Website]


Dr. Alessandra Lanzara

Dr. Alessandra Lanzara

Former: Postdoc

Current: Professor, University of California, Berkeley

[Email | Website]


Dr. James (JJ) Lee

Dr. James (JJ) Lee

Former: Ph.D. Student (2010 - 2016)

Current: Optical Engineer, Lumeras LLC

[Email ]


Dr. Dominik Leuenberger

Dr. Dominik Leuenberger

Former: Postdoc

Current: Researcher, the URPP LightChEC project, Institute of Chemistry and Physics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

[Email]


Dr. Wei Li

Dr. Wei Li

Former: Postdoc (2012 - 2015)

Current: Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University, China

[Email]


Dr. Tian Liang

Dr. Tian Liang

Former: Postdoc (July 2016 - June 2018)

Current: Postdoctoral Fellow, Riken, Japan

[Email]


Dr. Zhi Liu

Dr. Zhi Liu

Former: Postdoc

Current: Vice Dean, Professor, School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, China

[Email]


Dr. Zhongkai Liu

Dr. Zhongkai Liu

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Assistant Professor, Shanghai Tech University, China

[Email]


Dr. Tony Loeser

Dr. Tony Loeser

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Co-Founder and CTO, Syapse Inc.

[Email | Website]


Dr. Donghui Lu

Dr. Donghui Lu

Former: Postdoc (1997-2001)

Current: Deputy Head of Materials Science, SSRL, SLAC

[Email | Website]


Dr. Erdong Lu

Former: Visitor

 

 


Dr. Haiyu Lu

Dr. Haiyu Lu

Former: Graduate Student

 

 


Dr. Minghui Lu

Dr. Minghui Lu

Former: Visiting Professor

Current: Associate Professor, Nanjing University, China

[Email | Website]


Dr. Yue (Eric) Ma

Dr. Yue (Eric) Ma

Former: Graduate Student

Current: Postdoc, Stanford University

[Email]


Dr. Norman Mannella

Dr. Norman Mannella

Former: Postdoc

Current: Associate Professor, University of Tennessee; and ORNL

[Email | Website]


Dr. Anne Matsuura

Dr. Anne Matsuura

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Director of Collaborative Research for Extreme-Scale Technology, Intel Corp.

[Email]


Dr. Worawat Meevasana

Dr. Worawat Meevasana

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Assistant Professor, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand

[Email | Website]


Dr. Rob Moore

Dr. Rob Moore

Former: Postdoc

Current: Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

[Email]


Dr. Tschang-Uh Nahm

Dr. Tschang-Uh Nahm

Former: Postdoc

Current: Professor, Deparment of Physics, Hanyang University, Korea

 


Dr. Jin Nakamura

Former: Visitor

Current: Department of Applied Physics and Chemistry, University of Electro-Communications, Japan


Tommaso Pardini

Former: Visiting Student

 

 


Dr. Chul-Hong Park

Dr. Chul-Hong Park

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Executive Director and General Manager, RFHIC USA

[Email]


Dr. Heike Pfau

Dr. Heike Pfau

Former: Postdoc

Current: Assistant Professor of Physics at Penn State University

[Email]


Dr. Anton Puchkov

Dr. Anton Puchkov

Former: Postdoc

 

 


Dr. Shan Qiao

Dr. Shan Qiao

Former: Visiting Scientist

Current: Professor, Fudan University, China

[Email | Website]


Slavko Rebec

Slavko Rebec

Former: Graduate Student

Current:

[Email | Website]


Dr. Matteo Rossi

Dr. Matteo Rossi

Former: Postdoc

 

 


Dr. Dan Riley

Dr. Dan Riley

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Hardware Engineer, Apple Inc.

[Email | Website]


Dr. Filip Ronning

Dr. Filip Ronning

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Staff Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory

[Email | Website]


Dr. Shoya Sakamoto

Dr. Shoya Sakamoto

Former: Postdoc (April 2018 - September 2019)

Current: Assistant Professor, Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP), University of Tokyo

[Email]


Dr. Takao Sasagawa

Dr. Takao Sasagawa

Former: Postdoc

Current: Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

[Email | Website]


Dr. Matthias Schabel

Dr. Matthias Schabel

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Assistant Professor, University of Utah

[Email]


Dr. Erik Schaefer

Dr. Erik Schaefer

Former: Visiting Researcher

Current: Consultant at CORE, SE

[Email]


Dr. Felix Schmitt

Dr. Felix Schmitt

Former: Graduate Student

Current: CTO, Spark Thermionics, Inc. California, USA

[Email]


Dr. Jared Schwede

Dr. Jared Schwede

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Co-founder and CEO, Spark Thermionics, Inc., California, USA

[Email | Website]


Dr. Kyle Shen

Dr. Kyle Shen

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Professor, Cornell University

[Email | Website]


Dr. Jonathan Sobota

Dr. Jonathan Sobota

Former: Graduate Student

Current: Associate Staff Scientist, SLAC

[Website]


Dr. Hadas Soifer

Dr. Hadas Soifer

Former: Postdoc ( November 2014 - April 2019 )

Current: Assistant Professor Tel Aviv University

[Email]

 


Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Sohail

Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Sohail

Former: Postdoc (Sept. 2015 - Nov. 2017)

[Email]

 


Kelvin Spencer

Kelvin Spencer

Former: Undergraduate Student

Current: Software Engineer Consultant, Amadeus IT Group, France

 


Dr. Kiyohisa Tanaka

Dr. Kiyohisa Tanaka

Former: Postdoc

Current: Associate Professor, Institute for Molecular Science and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan

[Email | Website]


Dr. Shujie Tang

Dr. Shujie Tang

Former: Postdoc

Current: Assistant Professor, Shanghai Tech

[Email]


Dr. Inna Vishik

Dr. Inna Vishik

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, UC Davis

[Email]


Dr. Yunping Wang

Dr. Yunping Wang

Former: Visitor

Current: Professor, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, China

[Email | Website]


Dr. Zhengyu Wang

Dr. Zhengyu Wang

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Senior Algorithm Engineer, SVision Research Inc.

[Email]


Dr. Zhun Wei

Dr. Zhun Wei

Former: Visiting postdoc (Nov., 2018 - April, 2019)

Current: Postdoc Fellow, Center for Advanced Imaging, Harvard University

[Email]


Dr. Barry Wells

Dr. Barry Wells

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Professor, University of Connecticut

[Email | Website]


Dr. Paul White

Dr. Paul White

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Director of Portfolio Strategy, PNC Wealth Management

 


Dr. Gerald Wigger

Former: Postdoc

Current: Postdoc, Free University of Berlin, Germany

[Email]


Dr. Jinpeng Wu

Dr. Jinpeng Wu

Former: Postdoc

Current: Berkeley Lab

[Email]


Dr. Hongyu Xiong

Dr. Hongyu Xiong

Former: Ph.D. student (Jan 2015 - Dec 2018)

Current: Research Scientist, Facebook

[Email]


Dr. Hao Yan

Dr. Hao Yan

Former: Postdoc (2012 - 2019)

Current: Assistant Professor, University of North Texas

[Email]


Dr. Shuolong Yang

Dr. Shuolong Yang

Former: Undergraduate and PhD Student (04/2009 - 08/2016)

Current: Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, and ANL

[Email]


Dr. Wanli Yang

Dr. Wanli Yang

Former: Postdoc

Current: Senior Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

[Email | Website]


Dr. Yongliang Yang

Dr. Yongliang Yang

Former: Postdoc

Current: R&D Scientist, PrimeNano Inc., California

 


Dr. Teppei Yoshida

Dr. Teppei Yoshida

Former: Postdoc

Current: Professor, Kyoto University, Japan

[Email | Website]


Dr. Yoshiyuki Yoshida

Dr. Yoshiyuki Yoshida

Former: Visiting Scholar

Current: Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

[Email]


Dr. Ming Yi

Dr. Ming Yi

Former: Ph.D. Student

Current: Assistant Professor, Rice University

[Email]


Dr. Yonghao Yuan

Former: Postdoc

Current: 

[Email]


Dr. Chaofan Zhang

Dr. Chaofan Zhang

Former: Postdoc

[Email]

 


Dr. Yan Zhang

Dr. Yan Zhang

Former: Postdoc

Current: Assistant Professor, Peking University, China

[Email]


Dr. Yi Zhang

Dr. Yi Zhang

Former: Postdoc

Current: Assistant Professor, Nanjing University, China

 


Dr. Xingjiang Zhou

Dr. Xingjiang Zhou

Former: Postdoc

Current: Professor, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, China; Director, National Key Laboratory for Superconductivity, China

[Email | Website]


Alfred Zong

Alfred Zong

Former: Undergraduate Student

Current: Assistant Professor, Stanford University (joining September 2024)