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
Youngjun Ahn
PhD: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Office: West Hall 243
E-mail: yoahn@umich.edu
Interest: topological magnetism
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
Xiangpeng Luo
Office: West Hall 243
E-mail: xpluo@umich.edu
Interest: multipolar order | 2D magnetism | moire magnetism | developing ultrafast nonlinear optics with high sensitivity to small changes of small signals
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: TBD
Tianyi (Oliver) Wang
Office: West Hall 243
E-mail: oliverty@umich.edu
Interest: TDB
Undergraduate Students
Andrew Smedley
Office: West Hall 243
E-mail: smedleya@umich.edu
Interest: building and improving photoluminescence and absorption spectroscopy
Yufeng Cui
Office: West Hall 243
E-mail: davecui@umich.edu
Interest: 2D materials fabrication
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
PhD students
Dr. Elizabeth Drueke Delta Solutions and Strategies, LLC
Dr. Rachel Owen KLA Corporation
Dr. Siwen Li KLA Corporation
Visiting Scholars
Daiki Sekine Tohoku University
Undergraduate students
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