Our Team

Principal Investigator

Liuyan Zhao

PhD: Columbia University

Postdoc: California Institute of Technology

Office: West Hall 255

E-mail: lyzhao@umich.edu

Postdoctoral Scholars


Zeliang Sun

PhD: University of Science and Technology of China

Office: West Hall 243

E-mail: zlsun@umich.edu

Interest: topological materials | moiré electronics


Suhan Son

PhD: Seoul National University

Office: West Hall 243

E-mail: suhanson@umich.edu 

Interest: 2D magnetism | moiré magnetism


Chuangtang Wang

PhD: Northeastern University

Office: West Hall 243

E-mail: wangct@umich.edu    

Interest: 2D magnetism | moiré magnetism | kagome systems

Graduate Students

Xiaoyu Guo

Office: West Hall 243

E-mail: guoxy@umich.edu 

Interest: 2D magnetism | developing nonlinear optical microscopy with high sensitivity to spatial variations of small signals


June Ho Yeo

Office: West Hall 243

E-mail: junehoy@umich.edu  

Interest: chiral twisted multilayer 


Weizhe Zhang

Office: West Hall 243

E-mail: weizhezh@umich.edu  

Interest: domain walls in correlated and/or topological systems 


Kin To (Kingsley) Wong

Office: West Hall 243

E-mail: ktwongae@umich.edu  

Interest: Topological magnets 


Tianyi (Oliver) Wang

Office: West Hall 243

E-mail: oliverty@umich.edu  

Interest: Low-dimensional magnets

Undergraduate Students


Peter Mourad

E-mail: pmourad@umich.edu 

Interest: Twisted TMDCs


Jessica Daily

E-mail: jmdaily@umich.edu  

Interest: Magnetic systems

Alumni

Postdoctoral Scholar

Prof. Wencan Jin Assistant Professor, Physics at Auburn University

Prof. Hongchao Xie Assistant Professor, Physics at Southern University of Science and Technology

Dr. Youngjun Ahn Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

PhD students

Dr. Elizabeth Drueke Delta Solutions and Strategies, LLC

Dr. Rachel Owen KLA Corporation

Dr. Siwen Li KLA Corporation

Dr. Xiangpeng Luo Postdoctoral Scholar at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Visiting Scholars

Daiki Sekine                 Tohoku University

Undergraduate students

Andrew Smedley graduate student

Yufeng Cui graduate student

Laura Zichi graduate student, Harvard University

Ashley Wang undergraduate student, University of Michigan

Alex Landry (REU) undergraduate student, Linfield University

Austin Kaczmarek graduate student, Cornell University

Qianxu Wang undergraduate, University of Michigan

Shannon Gray (REU) undergraduate student, Colby College

Ian Blackman-Staves undergraduate, University of Michigan

Zhibo Kang graduate student, Yale University

Samia Sabir (REU) undergraduate student, Tulane University

Yuanhao Meng undergraduate student, University of Michigan

Daniel J. Imoehl (REU) undergraduate student, Central College

Lauren E. Weinberg undergraduate student, University of Michigan

Matthew Zeilbeck undergraduate student, University of Michigan

Junxu Li graduate student, Purdue University

Zijia Cheng graduate student, Princeton University

Yanyu Jia graduate student, Princeton University

Daoheng Niu undergraduate student, University of Michigan

Shibing Zhou undergraduate student, University of Michigan