BCT326@Yale - People

Yu He

Assistant Professor

yu.he_AT_yale.edu

Yu He joined Yale as an assistant professor in Department of Applied Physics, fall of 2020. Yu obtained his B.S. in Physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University. Prior to arriving at Yale, he worked as a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He has received the NSF CAREER award (2023) and the AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2023).

Xian Du

Applied Physics, Postdoctoral Associate

xian.du@yale.edu

Xian obtained his PhD degree from Tsinghua University in 2024. He is currently working on the electronic properties of superconducting cuprates and nickelates.

Jinming Yang

Physics, 5th year

Jinming is a graduate student in the Physics Department. He received his bachelor's degree in applied physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2020 and joined the group in the spring of 2021. His research area mostly involves utilizing the angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to study the unconventional superconductors.

Zhibo Kang

Applied Physics, 2nd year

zhibo.kang@yale.edu

Zhibo obtained his B.S. in Physics from Peking University. He's currently working on the spectroscopy study of the metal-to-insulator transition in quasi-1D material, Ta2NiSe5; and the quantum simulation of square lattices using supramolecular self-assembly. He's also working on molecular beam epitaxy technique.

Tyler Werner

Applied Physics, 4th year

tyler.werner@yale.edu

Tyler is a Graduate Student in Applied Physics. He obtained his B.S. in Molecular Engineering and Physics from University of Chicago. He works on the materials science of low dimensional magnetic materials for spintronic applications.

Wenxin Li

Applied Physics, 3rd year

wenxin.li@yale.edu

Wenxin obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Techonoly of China (USTC) in 2022. He is currently working on the band structure effect of ion-intercalation on transition-metal dichalcogenides, and the integration of magnetic field and photonics into the ARPES sample environment.

Joshua E. Chaparro Mata

Applied Physics, 1st year

joshua.chaparromata@yale.edu

Joshua obtained his bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez (UPRM) in 2024. He is currently researching high-temperature layered superconductor BSCCO, focusing on sensing magnetic field through Josephson vortex flow resistance.

Aria Wang

Applied Physics Junior

aria.wang@yale.edu

Aria is working on the development of a Scanning Mutual Inductance Microscope to study sub-micron scale inhomogeneities across superconductors and nanomagnets.

Xinhao Yang

Physics Senior

xinhao.yang@yale.edu

Xinhao is a visiting senior undergraduate from Peking University (PKU). His research interest focuses on developing a sub-resolution bandgap extraction algorithm for superconductors in ARPES. He's also an active participant working on the development of the scanning mutual inductance setup.

Alumni

David Subires (visiting student) - Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Spain

Peter van Vlaanderen (undergrad) - graduate research assistant, PME@UChicago

Maria Bambrick-Santoyo (undergrad, post bac) - graduate research assistant, EECS@MIT

Dr. Siqi Wang (Postdoctoral scholar, 2021-2024) - ASML Holding, Product Engineer

Ruobin Wang (research intern, 2023) - Singapore

Dr. Cheng Chen (visiting scholar, 2021-2023) - Shanghai Synchrotron Light Source, Assistant Professor

Nikita Ermolaev (Masters, Applied Physics, 2021)

Nicholas Lee (summer intern, 2022) - Yale University

Ingrid Slattery (summer intern, 2022) - Yale University

Eric Sun (summer intern, 2022) - University of Pennsylvania

Edward Wu (summer intern, 2021-2022) - Princeton University

David Subires

Visiting Assistant in Research

david.subiressantana@yale.edu

David is a fourth-year Ph.D. student visiting from the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) in Spain. He is researching CDW transition phases in Kagome systems and TMDs, employing ARPES and X-ray scattering experiments.

Ian Wang

Senior

Ian Wang joined the group to work on general-purpose sub-resolution superconducting gap extraction algorithms.

Dr. Rongting Wu

Visiting Scholar

Dr. Rongting Wu is a principal investigator at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, specializing in surface artificial lattice assembly and ultrahigh vacuum science.

Maria Bambrick-Santoyo

Senior

Maria works on the synthesis and characterization of rare-earth element modified high temperature superconducting copper oxide.

Peter van Vlaanderen

Junior

Peter joined the group in order to investigate the superconducting mechanism and relationship between magnetism and superconductivity in cuprates. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy is his principal experimental technique.