Principal Investigator
2022- Associated faculty, Materials Science and Engineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York
2022- Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Binghamton University, State University of New York
2018-2022 DOE EFRC postdoctoral fellow, Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (advisors: Xiaodong Xu and Jiun-haw Chu)
2012-2018 Ph.D. student, Department of Physics, and Center for two-dimensional and layered materials, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (advisor: Mauricio Terrones)
Awards
Energy Frontier Research Center fellowship, US Department of Energy, 2018
Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for Teaching Excellence in Physics, Pennsylvania State University, 2017
Travel Award for Graphene 2017, Texas Instruments, 2017
Outstanding Reviewer Award, 2D Materials, IOP Publishing Group, 2016
Outstanding Reviewer Award, Carbon, Elsevier, 2016
W. Donald Miller Graduate Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University, 2015.
David C. Duncan Graduate Fellowship in Physics, Pennsylvania State University, 2012, 2014, 2016.
Service
Guest Journal Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
Journal Reviewer, Physical Review X (ad hoc editor); Nano Letters; Physical Review B; Journal of Physics D, Applied Physics; Journal of Physics, Condensed Matter; Journal of Physics, Materials; Journal of Physics, Energy; Carbon; 2D Materials; MRS Advances; ACS Applied Materials & Interface; Physical Review Applied; Applied Physics Letters.
Research Grant Reviewer, Poland National Science Center.
Conference Session Chair or Organizer, Materials Research Society 2024 Spring Meeting; Gordon Research Seminar 2020 & 2022; Materials Research Society 2017 Fall Meeting; Carbon 2016.
Postdoc Scholars
rgontijo@binghamton.edu
Graduate Students
mislam88@binghamton.edu
gtiwari@binghamton.edu
tadhikari@binghamton.edu
Undergraduate Students
alabnin1@binghamton.edu
cgreene6@binghamton.edu
jlam82@binghamton.edu
Selected External Collaborators
Stephen M. Winter (Wake Forest University)
Xi Wang (Washington University in St. Louis)
Andrea F. May (Oak Ridge National Lab)
Tiancheng Song (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Geoffrey Diederich (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Guangxin Ni (Florida State University & National High Magnetic Field Lab)
Yafei Ren (University of Delaware)
Wenjin Zhao (University of Delaware)
Brian B. Zhou (Boston College)
Former undergraduate students