Previous Postdoctoral Researchers

 

 

Rong Cong

Research Faculty I, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, FSU, Tallahassee, FL

Thesis: Magnetic and structural properties of 5d osmate double perovskites probed by nuclear magnetic resonance – Brown University (2022)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stephen Carr

Scientist IV, HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA

Thesis: Moiré patterns in 2D materials – Harvard University (2020)

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Micheal Stewart (JQI)

 

Myeonghun Song (LG)

 

Previous PhD Students

 

 

Jonathan Frassineti

Thesis: Study of charge, spin, and structural orderings in quantum materials using nuclei and muons as local probes –

(Phd 3/2024 – Brown & University of Bologna)

 

 

 

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Erick Garcia

Thesis: Studies of the Charge Doped Mott Insulator With Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling, Ba2NaxCa1−xOsO6 – 

(PhD 4/2022, Currently a heat transfer engineer at VEIR)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rong Cong

Thesis: Magnetic and structural properties of 5d osmate double perovskites probed by nuclear magnetic resonance –

(PhD 4/2022, Research Faculty NHMFL)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Charles Snider

Thesis: Dynamic Simulations of Strongly Coupled Spin Ensembles –

(PhD  4/2022, Data Analyst)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wencong Liu

Thesis: NMR Study of Materials with Significant Spin-Orbit Coupling and Transparent Oxide Films, 

(PhD 09/2017,  quantitative analysis manager at Capital One Bank, New York)

 

 

 

 

 

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Lu Lu

Thesis: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Magnetism and Local Symmetry Breaking in a Mott Insulator
(PhD  09/2015, head of market risk at Alphadyne Asset Management, New York)

 

 

 

 

 

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Georgios Koutroulakis

Thesis: Unravelling the mysteries of unconventional superconductivity with NMR: The curious case of CeCoIn5
(PhD 10/2010, senior lecturer at UCSB)

 

 

 

 

 

Rongwei Hu

Thesis: Investigation of a d-electron Kondo insulator FeSb2
(Defended PhD thesis on 06/30/2009, scientist at Rutgers Center for Emergent Materials and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University)

 

 

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Marc-Andre Vachon

Thesis: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of the Magnetism in the 2D Frustrated Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnet Cs2CuCl4
( PhD 12/2008. Currently a director at Equisoft)

 

 

 

 

Previous Master Students

 

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Yi Ren

Thesis: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of 207Pb in the Quantum Model of Synapse Transmission

(ScM thesis 2023, currently PhD student at the University of Waterloo)

 

 

 

 

 

Taichi Murakami

Thesis: Exploring 2D Kagome superconductor KV3Sb5 through Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance

(ScM thesis 2023, currently PhD student at Boston College)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Musqan Nighojkar – Reverse Engineering the Synaptic Cleft: The Search for Quantum Information Processing in The Brain,
(ScM thesis 2022)

Anna Tessatti – NMR Investigation of Spin and Charge Dynamics in the Electron Doped Dirac-Mott Insulator Ba2Na1−xCaxOsO6 Double Perovskite, (ScM thesis 2021 – University of Bologna, Italy – currently PhD student at University of Trento, Italy)

Zhenxiang Gao – A study on the anisotropic Knight shift in Ba2Na1−xCaxOsO6 through NMR spectra simulations,
(ScM thesis 2021, ScM Research Excellence/Thesis Award, currently PhD student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)

Aaron Baumgart – Raman Population Transfer in a Quantum Gravimeter,  (ScM thesis 2021 – currently PhD student at Brown)

Davide Candoli – Simulation of NMR/NQR observables spin control for application in quantum science,
(ScM thesis 2020 – University of Bologna, Italy – currently PhD student at the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria)

Benjamin Davis – The Physics of Josephson Parametric Amplifiers, (ScM thesis 2020 – currently PhD student at the University of Washington Seattle)

Paola Caterina Forino – Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of the Electron Doped Dirac-Mott Insulator Double Perovskite Ba2Na1−xCaxOsO6, 
(ScM thesis 2020 – University of Bologna, Italy – currently PhD student at the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

Louis Hamaide – Novel ideas in axion detection & Group Structure of (N = 4, d = 1) SUSY, 
(ScM thesis 2019 – currently PhD student at Kings College. London, U.K.)

Li Zheng – NMR technique for single qubit control, 
(ScM thesis 2019 – currently PhD student at Michigan State University)

Michael Warnock – Investigation of Mechanical Boundary Condition Induced Property Losses in Piezoelectric Materials by the Symplectic Method, (ScM thesis 2019 – currently quantum computing research)

 

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Tianyi Zhou

Thesis: Piezoelectric Resonance
(ScM thesis 2018, currently PhD student at Northeastern University, Boston)

 

 

 

 

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Timo Yannick Simnacher

Thesis: One-Way Quantum Computing Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
(ScM thesis 2017, PhD at Universitat Siegen, Germany, currently at GFT Integrated Systems GmbH)

 

 

 

 

 

Previous Undergraduate Students

Max Melendez – Tensions Between Proposed Sr2RuO4 Superconducting Order Parameters: Using Lattice Deformations to Differentiate Symmetry-Protected and Accidental Degenerate Solutions, (Sc. B. 2022)

Benjamin Wolcott – Simulation of Powder NMR Spectra Patterns, (Sc. B 2020)

Fernando Gomez Ortiz – Exchange student from University of Cantabria, Spain (Summer 2017)

Dominic Adams – Thesis: Computational Simulation of Powder NMR Spectra, (Sc. B 2016 – Best Thesis Award)

London Cooper-Troendle – UTRA Research Project (Summer 2015)

Brad Barry – Thesis: Simulating Local Spin Texture Induced by Exotic Orbital Orders in the Mott Insulator with Strong Spin-Orbit Interaction, (Sc. B 2014 – Best Thesis Award)

James Bensson – Thesis: Quantum Computing with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (Sc. B 2012 – Best Thesis Award, currently graduate student at Stanford)

Adam Frees – UTRA Research Project (Spring 2012)

Zack Winoker – UTRA Research Project (Fall 2011 & Summer 2011)

Ryan Lester – Thesis: Bulk Quantum Computing with NMR, (Sc. B 2012)

Kyle Cackett – Thesis: Elementary Quantum Computing in NaClO3,  (Sc. B 2011 – Best Thesis Award)

Ryan Kaplan – UTRA Research Project (Summer 2009-10)

Octavia Crompton – NSF REU Research Project (Summer 2008-09)

Jacob Matlick – UTRA Research Project (Summer 2008)

Jonathan Schwartz – Thesis: NMR applications of Microcoils, (Sc. B 2007, Ph. D. student at Berkeley)

Worasom Kundhikanjana – Thesis: NMR Study of FeSb2, (Sc. B 2006, Ph. D. Stanford, Assistant Professor at Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand)

Adam Straub – Thesis: Low Temperature NMR Probe Design (Sc. B 2006, Ph. D. Cornell)