Previous Members

Dr. Monica Allen

Former: Postdoctoral Fellow (June 2016 - Feb 2019)
Current: Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego
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Dr. N. Peter Armitage

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Felix Baumberger

Former: Postdoc
Current: Professor, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Pavel Bogdanov

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Partner, Almza Capital
[Website]
Dr. Veronique Brouet

Former: Visiting Scientist
Current: Research Director, University Paris-Sud, France
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

Former: Visiting Professor
Current: Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore
[Email]
Dr. Yulin Chen

Former: Ph.D. Student, Postdoc, and Associate Staff Scientist
Current: Associate Professor, University of Oxford, UK
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

Former: Postdoctoral Scholar (January 2015 - December 2016)
Current: Postdoctoral Scholar, Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA Saclay
[Email]
Dr. Yongtao Cui

Former: Postdoctoral Scholar (September 2011 - July 2016)
Current: Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside
[Email]
Dr. Will Clay

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Senior Analytical Scientist, QD Vision Inc.
Dr. Tanja Cuk

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Andrea Damascelli

Former: Postdoc
Current: Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Daniel Dessau

Former: Ph.D. Student and Postdoc
Current: Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
Ross Dunkel

Former: Graduate Student
Current: Test Engineer, Ball Systems
Dr. Hiroshi Eisaki

Former: Visiting Scientist
Current: Senior Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Dr. Donglai Feng

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Professor, Fudan University, China; Director, National Key Laboratory for Applied Surface Science, China
Dr. Zhuoluo (Albert) Feng

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Business Consultant, China Resources Power
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Dr. Stuart Friedman

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Co-founder and CEO, PrimeNano Inc.
Dr. Shinichi Fujimori

Former: Visiting Scientist
Current: Research Staff, Spring 08, Japan
Dr. Alexandre Gauthier

Former: Graduate Student
Current: Apple Inc.
[Email]
Dr. Nicolas Gauthier

Former: Postdoc
Current: Postdoc at Université de Sherbrooke & Institut Quantique, Canada
[Email]
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

Former: Postdoc
Current: Principal, Riley Creek Capital Management, LLC
[Email]
Dr. M. Zahid Hasan

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Professor, Princeton University
Dr. Makoto Hashimoto

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Beamline Scientist, SSRL, SLAC
Dr. Junfeng He

Former: Postdoc (October 2015 - March 2018)
[Email]
Dr. Ruihua He

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Assistant Professor, Boston College
Dr. Yu He

Former: Graduate Student (09/2010- 07/2019)
Current: Assistant Professor, Yale University
[Email]
Dr. Matthias Hepting

Former: Postdoc (February 2017 - June 2018)
Current: Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
[Email]
Dr. Jinwoong Hwang

Former: Postdoc
Current: Assistant Professor, Kangwon National University, South Korea
[Email]
Dr. Nicholas Ingle

Former: Postdoc
Current: Senior Research Scientist, Kinestral Technologies Inc.
Akihiro Ino

Former: Visiting Student
Current: Associate Professor, Hiroshima University, Japan
Hitoshi Ishiwata

Former: Ph.D. student (2008 - 2015)
Current: Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
[Email]
Tao Jia

Former: Ph.D. student (2014-2020)
Current: Hardware Engineer, Apple
[Email]
Scott Johnston

Former: Ph.D. student (2013 - 2018)
Current: Hardware Engineer, Apple
[Email]
Dr. Scot Kellar

Former: Postdoc
Current: Board Chair, Bend Science Station. Package/Thermal/Power Lead, Intel Corporation
Dr. Chang Young Kim

Former: Postdoc and Research Associate
Current: Professor, Seoul National University, South Korea
[Email]
Dr. Dave King

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Co-Founder, BestInClass.com
[Website]
Dr. Patrick Kirchmann

Former: Postdoc (2009-2011)
Current: Staff Scientist, SLAC
[Website]
Dr. Worasom Fern Kundhikanjana

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Lecturer, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand
[Email]
Dr. Keji Lai

Former: Postdoc
Current: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Alessandra Lanzara

Former: Postdoc
Current: Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. James (JJ) Lee

Former: Ph.D. Student (2010 - 2016)
Current: Optical Engineer, Lumeras LLC
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Dr. Dominik Leuenberger

Former: Postdoc
Current: Researcher, the URPP LightChEC project, Institute of Chemistry and Physics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
[Email]
Dr. Wei Li

Former: Postdoc (2012 - 2015)
Current: Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University, China
[Email]
Dr. Tian Liang

Former: Postdoc (July 2016 - June 2018)
Current: Postdoctoral Fellow, Riken, Japan
[Email]
Dr. Zhi Liu

Former: Postdoc
Current: Vice Dean, Professor, School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, China
[Email]
Dr. Zhongkai Liu

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Assistant Professor, Shanghai Tech University, China
[Email]
Dr. Tony Loeser

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Co-Founder and CTO, Syapse Inc.
Dr. Donghui Lu

Former: Postdoc (1997-2001)
Current: Deputy Head of Materials Science, SSRL, SLAC
Dr. Erdong Lu

Former: Visitor
Dr. Haiyu Lu

Former: Graduate Student
Dr. Minghui Lu

Former: Visiting Professor
Current: Associate Professor, Nanjing University, China
Dr. Yue (Eric) Ma

Former: Graduate Student
Current: Postdoc, Stanford University
[Email]
Dr. Norman Mannella

Former: Postdoc
Current: Associate Professor, University of Tennessee; and ORNL
Dr. Anne Matsuura

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Director of Collaborative Research for Extreme-Scale Technology, Intel Corp.
[Email]
Dr. Worawat Meevasana

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Assistant Professor, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand
Dr. Rob Moore

Former: Postdoc
Current: Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
[Email]
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

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Executive Director and General Manager, RFHIC USA
[Email]
Dr. Heike Pfau

Former: Postdoc
Current: Assistant Professor of Physics at Penn State University
[Email]
Dr. Anton Puchkov

Former: Postdoc
Dr. Shan Qiao

Former: Visiting Scientist
Current: Professor, Fudan University, China
Slavko Rebec

Former: Graduate Student
Current:
Dr. Matteo Rossi

Former: Postdoc
Dr. Dan Riley

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Hardware Engineer, Apple Inc.
Dr. Filip Ronning

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Staff Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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

Former: Postdoc
Current: Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Matthias Schabel

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Assistant Professor, University of Utah
[Email]
Dr. Erik Schaefer

Former: Visiting Researcher
Current: Consultant at CORE, SE
[Email]
Dr. Felix Schmitt

Former: Graduate Student
Current: CTO, Spark Thermionics, Inc. California, USA
[Email]
Dr. Jared Schwede

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Co-founder and CEO, Spark Thermionics, Inc., California, USA
Dr. Kyle Shen

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Professor, Cornell University
Dr. Jonathan Sobota

Former: Graduate Student
Current: Associate Staff Scientist, SLAC
[Website]
Dr. Hadas Soifer

Former: Postdoc ( November 2014 - April 2019 )
Current: Assistant Professor Tel Aviv University
[Email]
Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Sohail

Former: Postdoc (Sept. 2015 - Nov. 2017)
[Email]
Kelvin Spencer

Former: Undergraduate Student
Current: Software Engineer Consultant, Amadeus IT Group, France
Dr. Kiyohisa Tanaka

Former: Postdoc
Current: Associate Professor, Institute for Molecular Science and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan
Dr. Shujie Tang

Former: Postdoc
Current: Assistant Professor, Shanghai Tech
[Email]
Dr. Inna Vishik

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, UC Davis
[Email]
Dr. Yunping Wang

Former: Visitor
Current: Professor, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Dr. Zhengyu Wang

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Senior Algorithm Engineer, SVision Research Inc.
[Email]
Dr. Zhun Wei

Former: Visiting postdoc (Nov., 2018 - April, 2019)
Current: Postdoc Fellow, Center for Advanced Imaging, Harvard University
[Email]
Dr. Barry Wells

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Professor, University of Connecticut
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

Former: Postdoc
Current: Berkeley Lab
[Email]
Dr. Hongyu Xiong

Former: Ph.D. student (Jan 2015 - Dec 2018)
Current: Research Scientist, Facebook
[Email]
Dr. Hao Yan

Former: Postdoc (2012 - 2019)
Current: Assistant Professor, University of North Texas
[Email]
Dr. Shuolong Yang

Former: Undergraduate and PhD Student (04/2009 - 08/2016)
Current: Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, and ANL
[Email]
Dr. Wanli Yang

Former: Postdoc
Current: Senior Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dr. Yongliang Yang

Former: Postdoc
Current: R&D Scientist, PrimeNano Inc., California
Dr. Teppei Yoshida

Former: Postdoc
Current: Professor, Kyoto University, Japan
Dr. Yoshiyuki Yoshida

Former: Visiting Scholar
Current: Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
[Email]
Dr. Ming Yi

Former: Ph.D. Student
Current: Assistant Professor, Rice University
[Email]
Dr. Chaofan Zhang

Former: Postdoc
[Email]
Dr. Yan Zhang

Former: Postdoc
Current: Assistant Professor, Peking University, China
[Email]
Dr. Yi Zhang

Former: Postdoc
Current: Assistant Professor, Nanjing University, China
Dr. Xingjiang Zhou

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

Former: Undergraduate Student
Current: Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology