People

Smeu Group (October 2023): Jake, Hashan, Sihe, Matt, Kevin, Nate, Manny

Group Leader

Manuel Smeu

Associate Professor

Manuel Smeu joined the Physics Department at Binghamton University in the fall of 2015. He specializes in computational studies of molecular and nano-electronics, batteries, solar cells and surfaces. Before his current appointment, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Hydro-Quebec Research Institute and McGill University under the supervision of Dr. Karim Zaghib and Prof. Kirk Bevan. Previous to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University under the supervision of Prof. Mark Ratner. Dr. Smeu obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from McGill University in 2012 for research co-supervised by Profs. Hong Guo and Robert Wolkow.

Teaching

PHYS 411/511 - Statistical Thermodynamics (fall 2021, fall 2022, fall 2023)
PHYS 227 - Sophomore Laboratory (spring 2022, spring 2023)
MSE 590 - Materials Communications & Seminar (spring 2020, spring 2021)
PHYS/MSE 583A - Computational Materials Physics (fall 2018, fall 2019, fall 2020)
PHYS 121 - General Physics I (fall 2015, fall 2016, fall 2017)
PHYS 122 - General Physics II (spring 2016, spring 2017, spring 2018)

Graduate Students

Kevin Batzinger

PhD candidate in Physics (joined in fall 2019)

Kevin did his undergraduate degree at Binghamton and has continued for graduate studies. His research project involves electron transport calculations for battery components.

Hashan Peiris

PhD candidate in MSE (joined in spring 2020)

Hashan obtained his Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering in Sri Lanka. For his research project, he is modeling electrolyte-cathode interactions for improved Li-ion batteries.

Nathaniel Bunker

PhD candidate in Physics (joined in fall 2021)

Sihe Chen

PhD candidate in Physics (joined in fall 2022 as MSc student)

Matthew Jankowski

PhD candidate in Physics (joined in fall 2022)

Undergraduate Students

Jacob Brown

Group Alumni

Zeying Chen

PhD graduate in MSE (co-supervised with Prof. Tara Dhakal; spring 2018 - spring 2023)

Brandon Washington

Undergraduate researcher

Lucille Sternberg

REU summer student (2022)

After Smeu group: continued studies at Mount Holyoke College

Scott Brennan

MSc graduate (spring 2022)

After Smeu group: engineer at Voltaiq

Michael Woodcox

PhD graduate (winter 2018 - winter 2021)

After Smeu group: postdoctoral fellow at NIST

Nisha Wilson

REU summer student (2021)

After Smeu group: Nisha continued her studies at Sacramento City College.

Robert Shepard

PhD candidate (winter 2018 - summer 2021)

After Smeu group: assistant professor at Alvernia University.

Stuart Shepard

PhD candidate (winter 2016 - spring 2021)

After Smeu group: postdoc at University of Twente working with Prof. Claudia Filippi.

Diana Liepinya

REU student (summer 2019, summer 2020, fall 2020)

After Smeu group: continued studies at the University of Maryland

Colton Gerber

REU student (summer 2020)

After Smeu group: continued studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Joshua A. Young

Postdoctoral fellow (fall 2017 - summer 2019)

After Smeu group: Assistant Professor in Materials Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology

Taylor R. Juran

PhD candidate (fall 2015 - spring 2020)

After Smeu group: Staff Scientist at Materials Design

Mo Li

Undergraduate researcher (spring 2016 - spring 2019)

After Smeu group: graduate school at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Evan Moravansky

Undergraduate researcher (spring 2018 - spring 2019)

Vincent Cuda

Undergraduate researcher (spring 2018 - spring 2019)

Peter Mastracco

Undergraduate researcher (fall 2017 - spring 2019)

Peter Kulick

Smart Energy REU student (summer 2018)

After Smeu group: returned to University of Scranton to complete undergrad.

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