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Turan Birol | Principal Investigator 

turan birol

tbirol_at_umn.edu

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Graduate Faculty Member, Physics

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ (2016)
PhD, Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 
MSc, Physics, Koç University, Istanbul 
BS, Physics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara 

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Luca Buiarelli | Graduate Student | Materials Science

buiar001_at_umn.edu
BS, Physics, University of Pisa, Pisa
MS, Physics, Kobenhavns Universitet, Copenhagen


Ezra Day-Roberts | Postdoc 

(Co-advised with Fernandes) 
dayro001_at_umn.edu


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Paromita Dutta | Postdoc 

pdutta_at_umn.edu
BS, Physics, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, India
MS, Physics, Hindu College, University of Delhi, India
PhD, Basic Sciences - Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India


Seongjoo Jung | Graduate Student | Chemical Engineering

Seongjoo Jung

jung0318_at_umn.edu
BS, Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul
(Co-advised with Dauenhauer)


Ana-Marija Nedić| Postdoc

Ana-Marija Nedic

amnedic_at_umn.edu
BS, Theoretical and Experimental Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia
MS,  Quantum Physics, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
PhD, Physics,  Iowa State University, IA 
(Co-advised with Fernandes)


Hyeonseo (Harry) Park | Graduate Student | Chemical Engineering  

Zach Van Fossan

park2971_at_umn.edu
BS, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul


Jay Shah | Graduate Student | Materials Science

shah0740_at_umn.edu
(Co-advised with Mkhoyan)


Zach Van Fossan | Graduate Student | Materials Science  

Zach Van Fossan

vanfo010_at_umn.edu
BS, Physics & Chemistry, Saint Olaf College, MN


Dominic Varghese | PhD Student | Materials Science

Zach Van Fossan

vargh085_at_umn.edu
MS, Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
BS, Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore


Fan Yang | Graduate Student | Materials Science

Fan Yang

yang6477_at_umn.edu
BS, Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai


He (Alan) Zhu | Graduate Student | Materials Science  

He (Alan) Zhu

zhu00336_at_umn.edu
BS, Materials Physics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou


Alumni

Amartyajyoti Saha (Physics PhD, 2023) 

Prachi Sharma (Postdoc, co-advised, 2023) | Postdoc @ Saarland University

Ethan R. Ritz (Postdoc, 2023) | Assistant Professor @ Harvey Mudd College

Hwanhui Yun (Postdoc, co-advised, 2023) | Senior Researcher @ KIRCT

Dominique Gautreatu (Physics PhD, 2022) 

Shutong Li (Materials PhD, 2022) | Software Engineer @ Google

Arpita Paul (Postdoc, 2020) | Postdoc @ JNCASR | Assistant Professor @ IIT Jammu