Alumni

Ìý Ìý Post docs trained in the group who proceeded to become Principle Investigators on major USA proposals/centers of Office of Science (DOE) and NSF proposals include S.B. Zhang, Lin Wang Wang, Chris Wolveron, Laurent Bellaiche, Vidvuds Ozolins, Fernano Redoredo, Gus Hart, Paul Kent, and Stephan Lany.

Ìý Ìý 25 of the post docs trained in the group became later professors in various universities.

Ìý Ìý Post doc trained in the group that were later hired into different positions at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) include: David Wood, S.H.Wei, Sverre Froyen, Sheng Bai Zhang, Lin Wang Wang, Chris Wolverton, Alberto Franceschetti, Kwiseon Kim, Stephan Lany, and MayeulÌý d’Avezac. Two have remained at NREL since.

Past and Present Postdoctoral/Sabbatical Scholars Advised by Alex Zunger

1

ÌýUlf Lindefelt

Professor, Dept. of Physics, Linkoping ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Linkoping, Sweden.

2

ÌýV. J. Singh

Professor, Dept. of Physics, Indian Inst. of Tech., Kanpur, India.

3

ÌýJohn E. Jaffe

Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Idaho.

4

ÌýAdalberto Fazzio

Professor, Dept. of Physics, San Paulo ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Brazil.

5

ÌýMarilia Caldas

Professor, Dept. of Physics, San Paulo ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Brazil.

6

ÌýHiroshi Yoshida

Professor, Dept. of Physics, Osaka ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Japan.

7

ÌýJ.L. Martins

Professor, Dept. of Physics, Inst. Superior Technico, Lisbon, Portugal.

8

ÌýDavid Wood

Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc, then Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Physics, Colo. School of Mines, Golden, CO.

9

ÌýG.P. Srivastava

ÌýProfessor, Dept. of Physics, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Exeter, U.K.

10

ÌýJim Bernard

Staff Member, Dept. of Physics, Colo. School of Mines, Golden, CO.

11

ÌýAbdul Aziz Mbaye

Cultural Minister, the Republic of Senegal.

12

ÌýS.H. Wei

Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now Research Fellow at NREL.

13

ÌýSverre Froyen

Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now Software Company, CO.

14

ÌýL.G. Ferreira

Professor, Dept. of Physics, Campinas ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Brazil.

15

ÌýZ.W. Lu

Staff Member, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of California, Davis, CA.

16

ÌýRobert G. Dandrea

Staff Scientist, David Sarnoff (previously RCA) Research Labs.

17

ÌýRita Magri

Research Associate, Department of Physics, Univ. of Modena, Italy.

18

ÌýSheng Bai Zhang

Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now Professor university Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY

19

ÌýRoberto Osorio

Financial Business Computer Simulations, CA.

20

ÌýDavid Laks

Financial Business Computer Simulations (Wall Street), New York, NY.

21

ÌýChin-Yu Yeh

Technical Staff Member, IBM Almaden, CA.

22

ÌýLin Wang Wang

Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now Staff Member, Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.

23

ÌýChris Wolverton

Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now Professor, Northwestern ³Ô¹ÏÍø

24

ÌýAlberto Francescetti

Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now retired.

25

ÌýKurt Mader

Division Manager, ELCA Informatik, Zürich, Switzerland.

26

ÌýLaurent Bellaiche

Professor, Department of Physics, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Arkansas.

27

ÌýHuaxiang Fu

Professor, Department of Physics, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Arkansas.

28

ÌýVidvuds Ozolins

Professor, Department of Materials Science UCLA

29

ÌýJeonim Kim

Staff, Oak Ridge National Lab

30

ÌýTomy Mattila

Technical Staff Member, VTT National Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland.

31

ÌýJ. H. Cho

Professor, Dept. of Physics, Hanyang ³Ô¹ÏÍø, KoreaÌý

32

ÌýAndrew Williamson

Intellectual Property startup company

33

ÌýFernando Reboredo

Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

34

ÌýStephan Muller

Professor, TUHH Technische Universitat Hamburg, Germany

35

ÌýJohn Shumway

Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, AZ.

36

ÌýKwiseon Kim

Hired as NREL Staff after post doc. Now retired

37

ÌýGus Hart

Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young ³Ô¹ÏÍø

38

ÌýSelva Nair

Senior Researcher, ECAN, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

39

ÌýMahdi Sanaty

Associate Professor Physics, Texas Tech ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Lubbock TX

40

ÌýPaul Kent

Staff member, Oak Ridge National Lab.

41

ÌýPriya Mahadevan

S.N. Bose National Centre ÌýDepartment of Condensed Matter Physics Kolkata, West Bengal, India

42

Ìý³¢¾±²µ±ð²Ô°Â²¹²Ô²µ

Professor, State Key ³Ô¹ÏÍø, China

43

ÌýCetin Kilic

Gebze Technical ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Turkey

44

ÌýVolker Blum

Assistant Professor, Duke ³Ô¹ÏÍø, North Carolina.

45

ÌýGabriel Bester

Professor, Hamburg ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Germany.

46

ÌýMarco Califano

Staff Scientist, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Leeds, U.K.

47

ÌýClass Person

Assistant Professor, Department of PhysicsÌý³Ô¹ÏÍø of Oslo, Norway

48

ÌýYu Jun Zhao

Professor, South China ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Technology, Guangzhou, China

49

ÌýSergey Dudiy

Maya Heat Transfer Technologies Ltd. Montreal, Quebec,Canada

50

ÌýLixin He

Professor, Hefei ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Technology, China

51

ÌýGustavo Narvaez

Scientist, Eclipse Energy Systems, Inc.

52

ÌýSergey Barabash

Manager, Materials and Device Simulations / Senior Scientist at Intermolecular Inc. San Jose, California

53

ÌýRoman Chepulskyy

Staff Engineer, Material Modeling at Samsung Semiconductor R&D San Francisco

54

ÌýJoonhee An

Nanotechnology Professional Los Angeles, California

55

ÌýS. Lany

Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now senior scientist, NREL

56

ÌýGiancarlo Trimarchi

Research Associate, Northwestern ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Evanston, IL, USA

57

ÌýZhe Liu

Senior Lecturer Mechanical andÌýAerospace Engineering Monash ³Ô¹ÏÍø Australia

58

ÌýPaulo Piquini

Professor, Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil

59

ÌýHannes Raebiger

Professor Yokohama National ³Ô¹ÏÍø, faculty of Engineering Science

60

ÌýMayeul d’Avezac

Technical staff, ³Ô¹ÏÍø College of London

61

ÌýVoicu Popescu

Researcher, Faculty of Physics ³Ô¹ÏÍø Duisburg-Essen Germany

62

ÌýJun-Wei Luo

Professor, Chinese Academy of Science, China

63

ÌýJennifer Chan

Imperial College, London

64

ÌýKoushik Biswas

Assistant Professor, Physics Arkansas state university

65

ÌýVladan Mlinar

School of Engineering, Brown ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Providence, USA

66

ÌýXiuwen Zhang

Assistant Professor, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, Boulder, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute

67

ÌýJulien VidalÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌýÌý

Research Engineer at EDF R&D ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Paris

68

ÌýArkady Mikhaylushkin

Professor, Chinese Academy of Science, China

69

ÌýTula Paudel

Research Assistant Professor a ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Nebraska-Lincoln

70

ÌýLijun Zhang

Professor, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin ³Ô¹ÏÍø Changchun, China

71

ÌýLiping Yu

Research Associate professor, Temple ³Ô¹ÏÍø

72ÌýVladan StevanovicAssociate professor, Colorado School of Mines

73

ÌýQihang Liu

Associate Professor, Southern ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

74

ÌýYongang Yu

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

75ÌýLeonardo Batoni AbdallaUniversidade de São Paulo
76ÌýGustavo M. DalpianProfessor,ÌýUniversidade de São Paulo
77ÌýZhi WangProfessor, Chinese Academy of Science, China
78ÌýCarlos Mera AcostaProfessor, Federal ³Ô¹ÏÍø of ABC, Brazil
79ÌýXingang ZhaoProfessor, Northeast Normal ³Ô¹ÏÍø, China
80ÌýXiaoli ZhangProfessor, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
81ÌýOleksandr MalyiProfessor, ENSEMBLE Centre of Excellence, Wolczynska Warsaw, Poland
82ÌýLinding YuanNorthwestern ³Ô¹ÏÍø
83ÌýFernando Pereira SabinoFederal ³Ô¹ÏÍø of ABC, Brazil
84ÌýJia-Xin Xiong³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, Boulder, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute

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Gathering of past post docs in Los Angeles APS meeting 2018

Gathering of past post docs in Denver APS meeting 2014