Principle Investigator
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2608-8958
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jxZDgWsAAAAJ&hl=en
E-mail: mus@mailbox.sc.edu
Education
Ph. D, Physics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Aug, 2008-Dec, 2014. Advisor: Prof. Kirill D. Belashchenko
Concentration: Condensed matter theory and materials science
B. S., Physics, Beihang University, Sep, 2004- Jun, 2008
Employment
Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, 2022/08–present.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2019/01–2022/08. (Advisor: Prof. Chris G. Van de Walle)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2015/10–2018/12. (Advisor: Prof. G. Malcolm Stocks)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2015/1–2015/9. (Advisor: Prof. Kirill D. Belashchenko)
Awards
Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher Award by Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center, UCSB (2021)
Outstanding Reviewer Award for Acta Materialia (2020)
Fellowship, Summer School: Electronic Structure Theory for Materials and (Bio)molecules, UCLA, (2014)
Travel award, Gordon Conference on Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Materials, University of New England, (2014)
Team members
Xuecong Wang
Graduate student
11/2022 - present
Education:
University of Science and Technology of China 2015.8—2019.10
University of South Carolina 2021.8—now
Siavash Karbasizadeh
Graduate student
08/2023 - present
Education:
University of California, Santa Barbara 2021.8—2023.08