Postdoctoral Scientists:
Masih Darbandi
Masih Darbandi received his PhD in 2007 from the Freiburg Material Research Center (FMF) in Freiburg, Germany, where he worked on semiconductor nanoparticles. Thereafter, he spent one year as a postdoctoral scientist in the Department of Chemistry, Ruhr University-Bochum, also in Germany. There he studied metal organic frameworks (MOFs). Next, we completed at three-year postdoctoral position in the Physics faculty of Duisburg-Essen University, Duisburg, Germany, where he studied transition metal oxide, magnetic nanoparticles. Since the fall of 2012, he has been a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. His research project is on the fabrication and the characterization of freestanding films of ceramic nanoparticles via electrophoretic deposition.
Damien Hudry
Damien Hudry received his PhD in 2008 from the University of Nantes in materials science. Thereafter, he became a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe – Germany. He joined the Dickerson group in November 2013. His research project is on the synthesis and characterization of ultrasmall rare earth sesquioxide, chalcogenide, and fluoride nanoparticles.
Dr. Isabel Gonzalo-Juan
Dr. Marcela L. Redigolo
Electron Microscopy Facility Manager, West Virginia University
Dr. Sameer V. Mahajan
Senior Engineer, Intel Corp., Phoenix, Arizona
Dr. Suseela Somarajan
Dr. Alex Krejci
Instructor, SUNY Korea-Stony Brook University
Alex Krejci received a B.S. in physics from the University of Kansas. He graduated with his PhD from Vanderbilt University in 2013. During his PhD studies, he developed a method to controlably deposit single layers of nanoparticles using electrophoretic deposition. Alex also enjoys teaching; he has tutored for many years and has worked as a TA for introductory physics courses.
Mr. Howard Titzel
Mr. Junhao Lin
Mr. Wencong Liu
Wencong Liu received his B.S. in physics from Nanjing University, China in 2011. He went to Brown University and has been working on his PhD degree ever since. He studies solid state nuclear magnetic resonance at Brown. In 2013, he joined Professor Dickerson’s group to study fabrication and NMR characterization of ITO thin films.
Visiting Scientists:
Tesfaye Gebre
Tesfaye Gebre received his Ph.D in physics from Alabama A & M University, Huntsville Alabama in 2005. In 2007, he joined the Condensed Matter Group at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida as postdoctoral research fellow. Since 2011, he has worked with Mogus Mochena of Florida A & M University and the Dickerson group on the fabrication of nanoparticle monolayers for electronic device applications. Tesfaye is a world-renown expert on single crystal growth and characterization.
Jyotirmoy Mandal
Jyoti Mandal is a rising senior physics and mathematics double major who has worked in the Dickerson Group for the past 3.5 years. His research interests have focused on the fabrication of monolayered films of nanoparticles using electrophoretic deposition.
Undergraduate Students:
Max Osmulski
Max Osmulski is a sophomore physics major who has worked in the Dickerson Group for the past 1.5 years. His research interests have focused on the synthesis and characteristics of magnetic EuS and Eu2O2S nanocrystals and the synthesis and thin film deposition of Te nanocrystals.
High School Students:
Ms. Justine Hart
University of Iowa Undergraduate
Shalom Rottman-Yang
Shalom Rottman-Yang is a high school senior at Hume-Fogg Magnet School. He joined the Dickerson Group as a participant in the School for Science and Mathematics at Vanderbilt. Along with Jyotisha Biswas, Shalom has worked on the electrophoretic deposition of carbon nanotube films and has published a first author manuscript on the subject.
Jyotishka Biswas
Jyotishka Biswas is a high school senior at Hume-Fogg Magnet School. He joined the Dickerson Group as a participant in the School for Science and Mathematics at Vanderbilt. Along with Shalom Rottman-Yang, Jyotishka has worked on the electrophoretic deposition of carbon nanotube films and has published a first author manuscript on the subject.