Spring 2023 Research Group Photo

Research group photos from previous years can be found here.

Faculty

Caitano L. da Silva

PI, Assistant Professor of Physics

PhD, Penn State University (2015)

Vita

Graduate Students

Emma Stover

Masters Student

Cobell Scholarship Awardee

John G. Pantuso

Graduate Research Assistant

Formerly: Undergraduate Research Assistant (Fall/2018 – Spring/2021) & NM Space Grant Fellowship Awardee

Jacob Wemhoner

Graduate Research Assistant

Luis G. Contreras-Vidal

Graduate Research Assistant

Co-advised with: R. G. Sonnenfeld

Undergraduate Students

Brandon Smith

Undergraduate Research Assistant

David Bennecke

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Co-advised with: S. Senay & P. R. Krehbiel

Graduate Alumni

Alex Attanasio

MS in Physics (May/2021)

Graduate Research Assistant (Fall/2019 – Spring/2021)

Post. Bacc. Research Intern (Spring/2018 – Summer/2019)

Co-advised with: P. R. Krehbiel

First job after graduation: Los Alamos National Labs

Undergraduate Alumni

James Sanchez

Undergraduate Research Assistant (Spring/2021 – Spring/2023)

NM Space Grant Fellowship Awardee

NM AMP URS Fellowship Awardee

First position after graduation: UC Santa Cruz Physics PhD program


Michael C. Taylor

Undergraduate Research Assistant (Fall/2019 – Fall/2022)


Sophia D. Salazar

Undergraduate Research Assistant (Spring/2018 – Fall/2019)

NM Space Grant Fellowship Awardee

First job after graduation: Lovelace Biomedical

Short-Term Interns

Paige Jordan Gee

Mechanical Engineering INTENSE REU Student (Summer/2022)

Co-advised with: M. Hassanalian

Hannah (Sol) Samuels

Undergrad Research Intern (Spring/2022)

Richard Roberts

Post. Bacc. Research Intern (Spring/2021)

Tyler Hester

Graduate Research Intern (Fall/2019)

Mathematics Department

Collaborators

Our research team is part of Langmuir Laboratory. Senior collaborators include:

Paul R. Krehbiel

Richard G. Sonnenfeld

Adonis F. R. Leal

Bill Winn

Mark Stanley