People
Satoru Emori
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Physics
(Affiliate Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering)
email: semori(AT)vt.edu
Rachel Maizel
Ph.D. Candidate
Physics
Sachli Abdizadeh
Ph.D. Candidate
Physics
Omolara Bakare
Ph.D. Candidate
Physics
Galen Street
Ph.D. Candidate
Physics
Muhammad Zubair
Ph.D. Candidate
Physics
Group Alumni
Julia Jones
Undergraduate Researcher
May 2022 - May 2023
Major: Physics
Subsequently completing B.S. at Virginia Tech
Wyatt Thomas
Undergraduate Researcher
May 2022 - May 2023
Major: Physics
Subsequently completing B.S. at Virginia Tech
Youngmin Lim
Ph.D. Physics
May 2018 - May 2022 (defended)
Subsequently Process Engineer at Micron Technology
David Smith
Ph.D. Physics
May 2018 - May 2022 (defended May)
Subsequently Engineer at HRL Laboratories
Shuang Wu
Postdoctoral Associate
Oct 2019 - Feb 2022
Subsequently Hardware Development Engineer at Western Digital
Bella Brann
Undergraduate Researcher
Aug 2019 - May 2021
Major: Physics
Subsequently completing B.S. at Virginia Tech
Lia Compton
Undergraduate Researcher
May 2020 - Jul 2021
Major: Physics
Subsequently Ph.D. candidate at Colorado State U.
Fernando Ramos-Diaz
Undergraduate Researcher
May 2019 - Dec 2020
Major: Physics
Subsequently completing B.S. at Virginia Tech
Matthew Simmers
Undergraduate Researcher
May 2019 - May 2020
Majors: Nanoscience,
Materials Science & Engineering
Subsequently completing B.S. at Virginia Tech
Behrouz Khodadadi
Postdoctoral Associate
Jan. 2018 - Apr. 2019
Subsequently Process Engineer
at Intel
Abdullaah Alarcon
Undergraduate Researcher
Major: Physics & Aerospace Engineering
August 2019 - December 2019
Ryan Greening
Undergraduate Researcher
Major: Physics
Jan. 2018 - Jul. 2019
Subsequently Ph.D. candidate at U. Denver
Thomas Taylor
Undergraduate Researcher
Major: Nanoscience
May 2019 - Jul. 2019
Subsequently working in industry
Mike Ackermann
Undergraduate Researcher
Major: Mathematics
Jan. 2018 - May. 2019
Currently pursuing Ph.D.
in Mathematics at Virginia Tech
Alec Damico
Undergraduate Researcher
Major: Nanoscience
Jan. 2019 - May 2019
Steven Dail
Undergraduate Researcher
Major: Nanoscience & Physics
Jan. 2018 - Aug. 2018
Subsequently M.S. student at Penn State
Jesse Barber
Undergraduate Researcher
Major: Physics
Aug. 2017 - Jul. 2018
Subsequently Ph.D. candidate at SUNY Buffalo