People

David Cobden

Professor of Physics


Faculty web page
cobden@uw.edu
Bio notes:Director, Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter, 2021-Fellow, American Physical Society, 2015Professor, University of Washington, 2002-Lecturer, University of Warwick, 2000-1Marie-Curie Fellow, University of Copenhagen, 1998-9Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, 1995-7EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Cambridge, 1993-4PhD, University of Cambridge (1992)MSc, University of St Andrews (1987)BA, University of Oxford (1986)Born Beaconsfield, UK, EU

Paul Nguyen

pvnbunny@uw.edu

Postdoc & MSF lab manager

Eric Lester

eklester@uw.edu

Graduate student

Luca Delgado

gdelga2@uw.edu

Graduate student

Ruhee Nirodi

rnirodi@uw.edu

Graduate student

Viru Sharma

Undergraduate

Nate Bezonson

Undergraduate

Chelsey Erway

Professional Masters

Matt Adams

Professional Masters

Ken Adams

Professional Masters

Faizan Ahmed Samad

Professional Masters

Annette Lake, June 2023

Dirty Harry's Balcony, August 2022

Paul's thirtieth. February 2022

Rattlesnake Ledge, Aug 2021

The fridge lab, 2019

2018

Past lab members

Gallery

Graduate stu​​​​dents

Elliott Runburg (Nion Co.)
Boris Dzyubenko (Skyworks Solutions, Inc)
Zaiyao Fei (Assistant Professor, Nanjing University)
Serkan Kasirga (Associate Professor, Bilkent University)
Jae Park (Cree Corporation)
Bosong Sun (Applied Materials, Inc.)
Zenghui Wang (Professor, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
Jiang Wei (Associate Professor, Tulane University)
Wenjin Zhao (Kavli Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University)
Hao-Chun Lee (data analyst, Taiwan)
Wei Chen
Joshua Kahn
Arnab Manna
Iuliana Radu

Visitors

Jennifer Heath (Linfield College)
Yun Ling (Jiangsu University)
Chunming Huang
Svenja Van Heeswijk
Thorsten Wagner
Hrudya Nair (CEI RET program)
Kyung-Hwa Yoo (Yonsei University)
Geeta Yadav

Pos​​tdocs

Tauno Palomaki (Sandia National Laboratory)
Yael Hanein (Tel Aviv University)

Und​er​graduates

Shreya Peckety
Henry Hungyu Lai
Joaquin Fernandez Odell
Viru Sharma
Emily Toph
Jarod Scribner
Adeline Maurus (CEI CEBR student 2021)
Apurva Goel
Jimmy Chang
Rachel Yingqiu Feng
Hao Zheng
Gustavo Acosta (REU)​
Caleb Anderson (REU)
Dathan Ault-McCoy
Andrew Barkley
Jacob Beedle
Lily Bechtel
Yuva Belarbia
Landon Bevier
Eli Bingham (REU)
David Bitseff
Spencer Bowen
Megan Campbell
Dylan Chase-Woods
Judy Cherian (REU)
Han Kyou (James) Choi
Luke Commins
Chris Cosby​
Bob Dormaier
Joe Finney
Erik Fredrikson
Ryan Foster
Kasey James French
Zhenghao Fu
Sam Goertz
Eliana Green (REU 2022)
Reece Henry
Andy Huchala
Alexander Hyde
Murtaza Jafry
Kay Jayachandran
Imai Jen-La Plante
Vinny Jones
Nathan Kuwada
Niles Lalande
Aaron Last
Naomi Lewin (REU)
Quinn L'Heureux
Xiao Li
Sawyer Veliz/Lichon (MEM-C REU)
Frank McKay
Aaron Midkiff
Moira Miller (REU)
Seth MIller
Peter Morse
Blake Owen
McKay Oyler
Nick Noll
Chad Pace
Tanner Pearson (REU)
Spencer Peters
Michael Pitts
Darren Pugh
Dave Panko
Sean Rafetto
Ricky Roy (REU)
Edward Samson
Conor Sayres
Denise Schmitz
Sheridan Seale
Matthew Seitz
Ivan Shiras
​Milo Sisk
Brad Smith
Trystan Smith
Dylan Soh
Yingtao Song
Mika Uusnakki
Chris Van Arsdale
Adam Wes
Andrew White​

High School students

Sruthi Koneru (Mercer Island High School)

Min Choi (Olympia High School)

Minje Park (Mercer Island High School)

Graham Cobden (Garfield High School)

Honorary members


Kyle and Graham

2010 Alki Beach, Seattle

2018 Sydney, Australia

2024 Bondi Beach, Sydney

Marcy