People
Fahad Mahmood
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
PhD: MIT 2016, BS: Stanford University 2010
Office: MRL 202, Lab: MRL 418/485/489
217.300.9217, fahad@illinois.edu
Fahad received his BS in Physics and Aero/Astro Engineering from Stanford University. He went on to receive his PhD in Physics from MIT where he developed ultrafast optical and time-resolved photoemission techniques to study light-induced emergent phenomena. His research included Floquet-Bloch states in topological insulators, quasi-particle relaxation and collective modes in cuprate superconductors and charge density wave systems, excitations in strongly correlated iridates and valley depolarization in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. From 2016 to 2019, Fahad was a postdoctoral research fellow at Johns Hopkins University where he used THz range spectroscopies to probe complex interactions in high-temperature and unconventional superconductors, and frustrated quantum magnets. Fahad grew up in Islamabad, Pakistan. When he is not cooling crystals down and shining lasers at them, he is typically watching cricket, playing squash and hoping for a fifth, sixth, seventh ring for the New England Patriots.
Yijing Huang
IQUIST postdoc fellow
Joined the group in February 2023
PhD: Stanford University 2022, BS: Tsinghua University, 2016
Jennifer Freedberg
Joe Greene postdoc fellow
Joining the group in August 2024
PhD: University of Minnesota 2024
Yinchuan Lv
PhD student, Department of Physics
Joined the group in Fall 2019
BS: University of California, Berkeley
Nina Bielinski
PhD student, Department of Physics
Joined the group in Fall 2019
BS: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Azel Murzabekova
PhD student, Department of Physics
Joined the group in Fall 2019
BS: Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Jack Zwettler
PhD student, Department of Physics
Joined the group in Fall 2022
BS: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Henry Amir
PhD student, Department of Physics
Joined the group in Spring 2023
BS: University of California Irvine
Rishi Acharya
PhD student, Department of Physics
Joined the group in Fall 2023
BS: University of California Los-Angeles
Hannah Aguirre
PhD student, Department of Physics
Joined the group in Fall 2023
BS: Santa Clara University
Emily Waite
PhD student, Department of Physics (co-advised by Nadya Mason)
Joined the group in Fall 2023
BS: Cornell University
Changjun Lee
PhD student, Department of Material Science & Engineering
Joined the group in Fall 2023
BS: Seoul National University
Pranav Mahaadev
Ivaylo Maksimov
Anush Mishra
3rd year undergraduate student
Majoring in Computer Science
Joined the group in Fall 2023
Sam Rosner
3rd year undergraduate student
Majoring in Physics
Joined the group in Summer 2024
Alumni
Soyeun Kim
Now faculty at DGIST, S.Korea
Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022)
MS & PhD: Seoul National University (SNU) 2019, BS: SNU 2014
soyeun@stanford.edu
Andrea Perry
Now Physics graduate student @ MIT
Undergraduate student researcher (2019 - 2021)
Majored in Physics and Materials Science, graduated in Spring 2021
anperry@mit.edu
Sahaj Patel
Now Physics graduate student @ MIT
Undergraduate student researcher (2020-2023)
Majored in Physics, graduated in Fall 2022
Yidi Liu
Now Physics graduate student @ Stanford
Undergraduate student researcher (2021-2023)
Majored in Physics, graduated in Spring 2023
Dominic Petruzzi
Now Physics graduate student @ Stanford
Undergraduate student researcher (2022-2024)
Majored in Physics, graduated in Spring 2024
Spoorthi Nibhanupudi
Now Associate Systems Engineer @ Northrop Grumman
Undergraduate student researcher (2022-2024)
Majored in Physics, graduated in Spring 2024
Yichao (Jason) Cheng
Now Physics graduate student @ Johns Hopkins University
Undergraduate student researcher (2023-2024)
Majored in Physics, graduated in Spring 2024