Current group members


Yanhong Gu
postdoctoral research associate
Phase transitions in unconventional density wave and colossal magnetoresistance materials under external stimuli and structure-property relations in these systems.

Kevin Smith
postdoctoral research associate
Non-reciprocal directional dichroism, magnetoelectric and magnetoelastic coupling in high magnetic fields, and structure-property relations in 4- and 5d-containing ferroics.

Avery Blockmon
graduate student
Decoherence pathways in molecular spin q-bit materials, high field polarization of chiral magnets, and magnetic circular dichroism of quantum magnets to reveal orbital magnetism.

Luther Langston
graduate student
Thermodynamics of metal nanoparticles on oxide surfaces + topotactic reactions of complex chalcogenides under pressure and a symmetry analysis of these processes.

Ashley Glover
graduate student
Synchrotron-based near field infrared nano-spectroscopy of domain walls in multiferroic oxides.

Brian Taylor
graduate student
Chalcogenide nanotubes under pressure, size effects, and excitonic properties.

Sambridhi Shah
graduate student
Complex chalcogenides under pressure, symmetry progressions, and structure-property relations.

Lakshan Silva
Newbie!

Daniel Morris
Newbie!

Ben White
Newbie!

Kavishka Jayarathna
Newbie!

Dylan Andrews
undergraduate student
Thermal and strain properties of quantum materials.