Group Leader
Prof. Serge Nakhmanson: Google Scholar profile, ORCID.
Students
Students from both MSE (primary appointment) and Physics (joint graduate program appointment) departments are included.
Ph.D. (current)
2023: Mr. Minhaz Morshed (MSE)
2021: Mr. M. Nabil Bhuiyan (MSE, co-advised with Prof. Lesley Frame, now at Assa Abloy)
2021: Mr. M. Fatin Ishtiyaq (MSE)
2020: Mr. Michael Fazzino (MSE)
Ph.D. (alumni)
2020 – 2024: Mr. Ashok Gurung (Physics, now postdoc at WSU)
2020 – 2024: Mr. Dharma R. Basaula (Physics)
2018 – 2022: Mr. Mohamad Daeipour (MSE, co-advised with Prof. Harold Brody, now at PhysicsX)
2016 – 2020: Ms. Ayana Ghosh (MSE, now Assistant Professor of Physics, IIT Madras)
2016 – 2020: Mr. Lukasz Kuna (Physics, now staff at PNNL)
2013 – 2018: Mr. Krishna C. Pitike (MSE, now staff at PNNL)
2014 – 2017: Mr. John Mangeri (Physics, now at The Technical University of Denmark)
MSc. (alumni)
2020 – 2022: Ms. Courtney Dawless (MSE, now at GD Electric Boat)
International visitors / exchange students (alumni)
2017 – 2018: Mr. Daopei Zhu (now Professor at Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, China)
Undergraduate Researchers (current)
2024: Ms. Aurora Buswell (MSE)
Undergraduate Researchers (alumni)
2020 – 2023: Mr. Charles Schwarz (MSE, now graduate student at the University of Maryland)
2020 – 2022: Ms. Hale Tresselt (MSE, now materials engineer at Hazelett Strip-Casting)
2019 – 2020: Ms. Elizabeth Schiesser (BME)
2019 – 2020: Mr. Isaiah Carrington (MSE, now staff at QuEST Global)
2018 – 2020: Mr. Lucas Enright (MSE)
2018 – 2020: Ms. Victoria Reichelderfer (MSE, now staff at Pratt&Whitney)
2017 – 2018: Ms. Hope Whitelock (Physics)
2016 – 2018: Mr. Steven Churchill (MSE)
2014 – 2016: Ms. Rebecca Stern (MSE)
Post-Docs (alumni from UConn and ANL)
2013 – 2017: Ms. Lydie Louis (MSE, now scientist at Technology Forecasting Office DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory)
2012 – 2013: Mr. Shiyuan Gu (ANL, co-advised with O. Heinonen and D. Karpeyev, now at Deloitte Consulting, Washington D.C.)
2010 – 2012: Mr. William Parker (ANL, co-advised with N. Romero, now Professor at University of Wisconsin – Parkside)
2007 – 2010: Mr. Rafal Korlacki (ANL, co-advised with Prof. S. Ducharme, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, now R&D Engineer at J.A. Woollam Co., Lincoln)
2007 – 2009: Mr. Jun He (ANL).
Group member / alumni awards
Ishtiyaq: LANL summer internships 2024, 2025
Reichelderfer: NSF GRFP 2021
Ghosh: LANL summer internships 2016, 2017, 2018; Phi Kappa Phi John Tanaka Graduate Student Fellowship (UConn) 2019; Early Discovery Award by the American Ceramic Society 2024
Kuna: NRL Pathways student internship 2017, 2018; NRC postdoctoral fellowship at NRL 2020 – 2023
Pitike: ORNL ASTRO fellow, summers 2016, 2017
Mangeri: ANL Givens fellowship 2015; DoE SCGSR 2016; Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship 2021 – 2023
Whitelock: NSF GRFP 2018
Stern: Pfizer summer internship 2015, TMS scholarship 2016