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Graduate Students at Penn State

  • Cristobal Vallejos. Project: Memory Function Approach to Response Functions in Solids. (Ph.D. in Physics candidate since August 2021)

Former Postdocs

  • Ajay Chaudhari, Post-doctoral scholar, Physics Department, Penn State from June 2004 to July 2006. Currently: Professor and Head, Department of Physics of The Institute of Science, Mumbai, India.
  • Cüneyt Berkdemir, Post-doctoral scholar, Physics Department, Penn State from December 2009 to July 2012. Currently: ‎Professor of Physics at ‎Erciyes University, Turkey.
  • Xiaojiao San, Post-doctoral scholar, Physics Department, Penn State from August 2011 to August 2012. Currently: Lecturer at Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.

Former Graduate Students

Former Undergraduate Students

  • Johanna “Pokie” Olson, 2004, REU Student, Penn State. BS in Physics, Saint Olaf College in 2008. Ph.D. in Computational Astrophysics, University of Notre Dame in 2015. Currently: Data Scientist at American Family Insurance.
  • Denise Nemenz, 2005, REU Student, Penn State. BS in Computer Science from University of Southern California in 2006. Masters of Engineering in Computer Science from Penn State in 2008. Currently: Research Engineer at the Applied Physics Lab of John Hopkins University.
  • Robert Skarbek, 2005, REU Student, Penn State. BS in Physics from Penn State in 2006. MS in Geosciences from Penn State in 2008. Ph.D. in Geosciences at the University of Oregon in 2012. Currently: Postdoctoral position  in Geological Sciences at University of Oregon.
  • Ben Winchester, 2005, REU Student, Penn State. BS in Computational Science from Asbury University, Wilmore, KY in 2007. Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Penn State in 2012. Currently: Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM.
  • George Malek, 2006, REU Student and Honor Thesis Advisor for the Schreyer’s Honors College, Penn State. BS in Physics from Penn State in 2007. Currently: Running his own music recording studio in LA.
  • Kevin Rybicki, 2008, REU Student and Honor Thesis Advisor for the Schreyer’s Honors College, Penn State. BS in Physics form Penn State in 2009. Masters in Medical Physics from Duke University in 2012. Currently: Working for a start-up company in Houston.
  • Casey Robinson, 2009, REU Student, Penn State. Need info.
  • Charles Stewart, 2009, REU Student, Penn State. High school teacher in Florida untill 2012. Currently: Program Manager at Datalink Software, a medical software company.
  • Ryan Atwater, 2009, REU Student, Penn State. BS in Mathematics from UMBC in August 2012. Masters in Industrial and Applied Mathematics from Towson University in 2015. Currently: Ph.D. student in Applied Mathematics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
  • Chris Billman, 2010, REU Student, Penn State. BS in Physics with a minor in Mathematics from Penn State in 2011. Currently: Graduate Student, Physics, University of Florida.
  • Ryan Maunu, 2010, REU Student, Penn State. BS in Physics from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2011. Ph.D. in Physics from University of Maryland. Currently: Data Scientist, Wayfair, Boston, MA.
  • Tyler Maunu, 2011, REU Student, Penn State. BS in Mathematics from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2013. Currently:  Graduate Student, Ph.D. in Mathematics at University of Minnesota.
  • Diego Balam Carrasco Lefranc, 2012, REU Student, Penn State. Expected Engineering in Physics Degree from Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico D.F., Mexico in 2013.
  • Robert Weldon Jr., 2012, REU Student, Penn State.
  • John Groh, 2011, REU Student Penn State.
  • Michael O’Boyle, 2013, REU Student, Penn State. Physics Major at SUNY Geneseo.
  • Nicholas Roman, 2013, REU Student from Penn State.
  • Eric Stopper. Undergraduate research, February 2016 to May 2017. REU from Penn State, Summer 2016. Currently at Advanced Simulations Technology, Inc.
  • Alex Sredenscheck, 2017, REU from Messiah College, class of 2019.
  • Patrick Thornton.  (Penn State, class of 2017) Undergraduate research from  the Fall of 2014 to Fall of 2017. Project: Quantum Capacitance in Graphene Devices.
    Currently at Corning, Inc.
  • Stephen Thornton. (Penn State, class of 2019) Undergraduate research from Fall 2016 to Spring 2019. Project: “Transport in disordered one dimensional systems.” Currently: Ph.D. student at Cornell University.
  • Rachel Ratvasky. (Penn State, class of 2021) Undergraduate Research from Fall 2017 to Spring 2019. Project: “Water in nanotubes.”
  • Nico Reed. REU Student, Penn State. BS in Physics, University of Delaware in 2021. Project: “Mean Square Deviation from Wigner-Dyson Distribution as a Method of Localization.”  Currently: Graduate Student at University of Maryland.
  • Jeanpun (Mai) Antarasen. (Penn State, class of 2022) Project: “Evaluation of the Correlation Length in Anderson Localization Models.” Currently: Ph.D. student at Case Western Reserve University.

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