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Logan Abel - Lab Alumnus


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Emilio Ahuactzin-Garcia - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Emre Yildirim

Focus Area: TGS analysis of Tungsten-Tantalum compounds for FEM modeling

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Aljazzy Alahmadi - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Saleem Al Dajani

Focus Area: Non-destructive spinodal decomposition detection

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Abdulla A Alhajri - Lab Alumnus


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Nouf AlMousa - Lab Alumnus (Princess Nourah Univ., Saudi Arabia)


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Isabel K Alvarez - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Myles Stapelberg

Focus Area: Rapid Automated Materials - Discovery, Development, Deployment

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Brandon Aranda - Lab Alumnus


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Francisco Arellano - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: Irradiation of hydride moderators for microreactors

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Liliana R Arias - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Avery Nguyen

Active Projects: Uranium Forensics
Focus Area: Forensic Uranium Enrichment Reconstruction of Maraging Steels via Oxide Swift Ion Track Etching

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Rasheed Auguste - Lab Alumnus


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Luigi Bana - Lab Alumnus (PoliMi, Italy)

Focus Area: Enhancing corrosion resistance in molten salts with tailored tungsten coatings

Iselle M Barrios - Lab Alumnus

Focus Area: Decarbonizing Ulaanbaatar: Examining the Potential Use of Thermochemical Energy Storage for Household Heating in the Ger District

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Livia Barros - Lab Alumnus
Jointly supervised by Haruko Wainwright


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Tsolmon Bazarragchaa - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by David Fischer

Focus Area: Simulating Irradiation Tolerance of Superconductors for Fusion with Molecular Dynamics

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Bethany Belleque - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Alexis Devitre

Focus Area: Measuring vacancy-type radiation defects using positrons

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Matteo Bucci - Lab Alumnus

Active Projects: Fouling Deposit Prevention
Matteo's Personal Website

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Penghui Cao - Lab Alumnus

Active Projects: Fouling Deposit Prevention, Deconvolving Radiation Damage, Wigner Energy
Penghui's Personal Website

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Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao - Lab Alumnus (McGill)

Xiangkun's Personal Website

Hervé Caralp - Lab Alumnus (Brown)
Mentored by Weiyue Zhou

Focus Area: Modeling the effect of radiolysis on the corrosiveness of molten fluoride salts

Max Carlson - Lab Alumnus

Active Projects: Fouling Deposit Prevention
Focus Area: Fouling-resistant coating design
Max's Personal Website

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Ki-Jana Carter - Lab Alumnus


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Amelia J Cavallaro - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Myles Stapelberg

Focus Area: Irradiation-corrosion issues when using silicon carbide (SiC) as a plasma-facing material (PFM)

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Michelle Chen - Lab Alumnus


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Sean Chen - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by David Fischer

Focus Area: Simulating Irradiation Tolerance of Superconductors for Fusion with Molecular Dynamics

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Matthew Chew - Lab Alumnus
Jointly supervised by Jacopo Buongiorno


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Caroline Colbert - Lab Alumnus


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Rachel Connick (She/her) - Lab Alumnus
Jointly supervised by R. Scott Kemp

Active Projects: Wigner Energy
Focus Area: Calorimetric fingerprints of historical uranium enrichment

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Jaron F Cota - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Samuel McAlpine

Focus Area: Vetting new, radiation resistant stainless steels

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Liam J Coy - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Zoe Fisher

Focus Area: Effects of Magnetic Fields on Superconductors for Fusion Reactors

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Kaylee Cunningham (She/Her) - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Angus Wylie

Focus Area: The neutron-ion handshake - Replicating neutron damage with multiple ion beams
Kaylee's Personal Website

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Benjamin Dacus - Lab Alumnus

Active Projects: Deconvolving Radiation Damage
Focus Area: Rapid down-selection of structural materials

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Nicholas Dallaire - Lab Alumnus (U. Ottowa (Canada))
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: TGS measurement of nanotube thermal transport

Akshay Dave - Lab Alumnus
Jointly supervised by Lin-Wen Hu

Active Projects: Fouling Deposit Prevention

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Alexandra Delmore - Lab Alumnus


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Adam Deng - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by David Fischer

Focus Area: Simulating Irradiation Tolerance of Superconductors for Fusion with Molecular Dynamics

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Cody A. Dennett - Lab Alumnus (CFS)

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Cody's Personal Website

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Jessica L Dett - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Weiyue Zhou

Focus Area: Exploring the influence of oxygen and EuF3 on corrosion in molten fluoride salt

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Matteo Di Giacomo - Lab Alumnus (Polito, Italy)

Focus Area: PKA sensitivity analysis of HTS for fusion reactor design

Hannah Didehbani - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: Fiber coupled TGS end-station design

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Jennifer Dumel - Lab Alumnus (Penn State)


Ittinop (Pun) Dumnernchanvanit - Lab Alumnus


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Andrew Dykhuis - Lab Alumnus


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Surya Effendy - Lab Alumnus
Jointly supervised by Martin Bazant

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Focus Area: Localized corrosion mechanism elucidation

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Samuel Engebretson - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Alexis Devitre

Focus Area: Deducing defects in high temperature superconductors during irradiation using transient grating spectroscopy

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Terran Lee Winter Fox - Lab Alumnus


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Andrea L Garcia - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: CuCrZr coolant tubes for plasma facing components

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Derek Gess - Lab Alumnus


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Hadrick Green - Lab Alumnus


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Jake Hecla - Lab Alumnus


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Alberto Hernandez - Lab Alumnus


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Khalil Hill - Lab Alumnus (Penn State)


Charlie Hirst (He/Him) - Lab Alumnus (U. Mich.)

Active Projects: Wigner Energy
Focus Area: Direct measurement of Wigner energy from radiation damage

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Shawn Huang - Lab Alumnus (Imperial)

Focus Area: Thermal analysis of irradiated optical fibers

Charlie Inman - Lab Alumnus


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Rossana Iturbide - Lab Alumnus


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Mujtaba Jebran - Lab Alumnus

Active Projects: Geigers for Everyone

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Miaomiao (Mia) Jin - Lab Alumnus (Penn State)

Active Projects: Deconvolving Radiation Damage
Miaomiao (Mia)'s Personal Website

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Quincy T Johnson - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Nouf AlMousa

Focus Area: Brazing alloys for plasma facing components

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Pavlina Karafillis - Lab Alumnus


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Si Ying Khew - Lab Alumnus (NUS, Singapore)


Taeyong Kim - Lab Alumnus (UNIST)
Mentored by Nouf AlMousa

Active Projects: Irradiation/Corrosion

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Yelena Kim - Lab Alumnus (INP, Kazakhstan)

Focus Area: Radiation damage of EP-450 duplex steel

Lauryn D Kortman - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Alexis Devitre

Active Projects: Deconvolving Radiation Damage, Wigner Energy
Focus Area: Stored energy of irradiated high temperature superconductors

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Andrew Thomas Lanzrath - Lab Alumnus
Jointly supervised by Zach Hartwig

Focus Area: Irradiation damage of high-temperature superconductors in large magnetic fields

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Nikhita A Law - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Weiyue Zhou

Focus Area: Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) of EuF3 as a molten salt chemical buffer

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Gabrielle Ledoux - Lab Alumnus


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Aurélien Legoupil - Lab Alumnus

Focus Area: Radiation defect analysis of fiber optics for fusion magnet quench detection

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Yen Lin Leow - Lab Alumnus


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Leigh Lin - Lab Alumnus


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Lige Liu - Lab Alumnus


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Julie Victoria Logan - Lab Alumnus
Jointly supervised by Areg Danagoulian

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Davide Loiacono - Lab Alumnus (PoliMi, Italy)
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: TGS of amorphous alumina coatings for nuclear fuel
Davide's Personal Website

Sean Lowder - Lab Alumnus


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Edward Lu - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by David Fischer

Focus Area: Simulating Irradiation Tolerance of Superconductors for Fusion with First Principles Atomistics

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Max Major - Lab Alumnus


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Armando Martinez - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: Tracking changes in thermal diffusivity vs. irradiation for tritium-producing burnable absorber rods (TPBARs)

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Samuel McAlpine - Lab Alumnus

Active Projects:
Focus Area: Multimetallic layered composites (MMLCs) and high entropy alloys (HEAs)

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Vikash Mishra - Lab Alumnus (U. Arkansas)


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Riley Moeykens - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Weiyue Zhou

Focus Area: Studying the influence of proton irradiation on Ni-20Cr corrosion in fluoride salts

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Joonho Moon - Lab Alumnus (PNU)


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Gilberto Mota - Lab Alumnus

Active Projects: Fouling Deposit Prevention

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Eleni T Mowery - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Myles Stapelberg

Focus Area: RAM-3D rapid analysis of V-Ti-Cr alloys for fusion

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Lucy M Nester - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Alexis Devitre

Focus Area: Investigating Specific Positron Trapping Rates Through DFT Simulation

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Irura Nyiha - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Charlie Hirst

Focus Area: Rapid Automated Materials - Discovery, Development, Deployment

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Si Ci Ong - Lab Alumnus (Imperial)

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Katherine L Pan - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by David Fischer

Focus Area: Designing a Robust Test Stand for High Temperature Superconductors for Fusion Magnets

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Ekaterina Paramonova - Lab Alumnus


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Jordan Parker-Ashe - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Avery Nguyen

Focus Area: Forensic uranium enrichment reconstruction via chlorinated Teflon calorimetry following irradiation

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Bren Phillips - Lab Alumnus
Jointly supervised by Matteo Bucci

Active Projects: Fouling Deposit Prevention

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Charles Phu - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: Detecting short-range ordering via changes in thermal diffusivity using TGS

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Pradchar (Max) Pradyawong - Lab Alumnus (Tokyo Tech)


Dylan J Raphael - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by David Fischer

Focus Area: Simulating Irradiation Tolerance of Superconductors for Fusion with Molecular Dynamics

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Daniel Reinfurt - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Rachel Connick

Active Projects: Wigner Energy
Focus Area: Forensic fingerprints of uranium enrichment

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Sean Robertson - Lab Alumnus

Focus Area: Non-contact measurement of molten salt thermophysical properties

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Jamie Sahote - Lab Alumnus (Imperial)


Syakira Saiful - Lab Alumnus (Imperial)


Madalyn Scherwinski - Lab Alumnus (Mary U.)
Mentored by Saleem Al Dajani

Focus Area: Material property changes in irradiated hydrides for microreactors

Daniel Schumaker - Lab Alumnus

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Lily Sensen - Lab Alumnus
Jointly supervised by Haruko Wainwright

Focus Area: Neutron Activation Analysis on Toenails, Rice, and Honey for Environmental Monitoring

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Keldin Sergheyev - Lab Alumnus


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Mohammad Shahin - Lab Alumnus

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Robert Simpson - Lab Alumnus (SUTD, Singapore)

Active Projects: Deconvolving Radiation Damage

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Maniesha Singh - Lab Alumnus (Imperial)


Natasha Skowronski - Lab Alumnus


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Kangpyo So - Lab Alumnus
Jointly supervised by Ju Li

Active Projects: Wigner Energy
Kangpyo's Personal Website

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Caroline Sorenson - Lab Alumnus (CFS)

Active Projects: Deconvolving Radiation Damage

Johan J Soto - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: In situ TGS measurement of hydrided Zircaloy 4

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Peter Stahle - Lab Alumnus
Jointly supervised by Ronald Ballinger

Active Projects: Irradiation/Corrosion

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Ethan Stewart - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by David Fischer

Focus Area: Simulating Irradiation Tolerance of Superconductors for Fusion with First Principles Atomistics

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Andrea Stinchelli - Lab Alumnus (PoliMi, Italy)
Mentored by Adria Peterkin

Focus Area: Neutronics and thermophysical properties of FLiPb molten salt for fusion

Reid Tanaka - Lab Alumnus


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Kevin Tang - Lab Alumnus
Jointly supervised by Gregory Wallace


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Shoki Taniura - Lab Alumnus (Tokyo U. (東京大学))


Daniel Taylor - Lab Alumnus


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Yanisa Techagumthorn - Lab Alumnus


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Çi?dem Toparli - Lab Alumnus (METU, Turkey)

Active Projects: Fouling Deposit Prevention

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Joshua Torres - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Nouf AlMousa

Focus Area: Non-destructive delta ferrite detection in steels

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Courtney Tower - Lab Alumnus (U. Ottowa (Canada))


Brendan C Vaughan - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Samuel McAlpine

Focus Area: Machine learning prediction of radiation void swelling

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Kavya Velmurugan - Lab Alumnus (RPI)

Focus Area: Modeling nucleation and growth of irradiated PTFE recyrstallization

Lawrence Waldron - Lab Alumnus (Imperial)


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Colin M Weaver - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Myles Stapelberg

Active Projects: Deconvolving Radiation Damage
Focus Area: Building a 3D mapping stage for TGS

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Kay Whiteaker (they/them) - Lab Alumnus

Focus Area: Thermal transport of irradiated metal hydrides

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Yang Yang - Lab Alumnus

Yang's Personal Website

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Kayen Yau - Lab Alumnus


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Emre Yildirim - Lab Alumnus (U. Manchester (UK))
Mentored by Sean Robertson

Focus Area: TGS measurement of thermal transport in tungsten alloys

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Kagei Yu - Lab Alumnus (Tokyo Tech)
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: Measuring coupled strain and thermal transport in semiconductors

Annie Yun - Lab Alumnus


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Arthur Zangi - Lab Alumnus
Mentored by Kevin Woller

Focus Area: Plasma-material interactions using TGS/DIONISOS

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Naiqiang Zhang - Lab Alumnus (NCEPU)


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William Zhou - Lab Alumnus
Jointly supervised by Bilge Yildiz

Active Projects:
Focus Area: Failure modes of water-based environmental coatings

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Kristýna Zoubková - Lab Alumnus (CTU Prague)
Mentored by Angus Wylie

Focus Area: TGS analysis of NiTi shape memory films


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