Postdocs

Dr.Wu-Pei Su (1983-1985). PhD University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA (1983). Dr. Su is now Professor of Physics at the University of Houston, Houston TX (USA).

Dr.Elbio Dagotto (1985-1988). PhD Instituto de Física Balseiro, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina (1984). Dr. Dagotto was Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Dr. Dagotto was a Professor of Physics at Florida State University at Tallahasee, Tallahasee FL (USA). He is now a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics of the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee) and a Distinguished Scientist of the Condensed Matter Science Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, Tennessee).

Dr. Qian Niu (1984-1985). PhD University of Washington, Seattle WA (1984). Dr. Niu was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Physics of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Dr.Niu is now Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX (USA).

Dr. Adriana Moreo (1985-1988). PhD Instituto de Física Balseiro, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina (1985). Dr. Moreo was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Physics of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Dr.Moreo was a Professor of Physics at Florida State University at Tallahasee, Tallahasee FL (USA). Dr. Moreo is now a Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics of the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee) and has a joint appointment at the Condensed Matter Science Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, Tennessee).

Dr. Scott Renn (1987-1988). PhD University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA (1987). Dr. Renn was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Cornell University, and an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of California at San Diego, La Jolla CA (USA). He is currently a Research Staff Member at Institute for Defense Analyses (Washington, DC).

Dr. Shoudan Liang (1988-1990). PhD University of Chicago, Chicago IL (1985). Dr. Liang was an Assistant Professor of Physics at Penn State University. He is now a Professor at the Department of Biostatistics and Applied Mathematics of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.

Dr. Enrique Moreno (1988-1990). PhD Universidad de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina (1987). Dr. Moreno was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Universidad de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) and at the City College of New York, New York City, NY (USA). He is now an Associate Teaching Professor at the Department of Physics of Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts),

Dr. Vadim Kalmeyer (1989-1990). PhD Stanford University, Stanford CA (1989). Dr.Kalmeyer is now at IBM Almaden, San Jose CA (USA).

Dr. Lev Ioffe (1989-1990). PhD Physico-Technical Institute of Moscow (Moscow, USSR) and Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics (Chernogolovka, USSR) (1987). Dr. Ioffe was a Professor of Physics at Rutgers University (Piscataway, New Jersey) and at the University of Wisconsin, Madison WI (USA). He is currently a member of the technical staff at Google Quantum AI (Mountain View, California).

Dr. Eduardo R. Gagliano (1989-1992). PhD Instituto de Física Balseiro, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina (1985). Dr. Gagliano was a member of the staff of CONICET (Argentina) at Instituto de Física Balseiro, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina. Dr. Gagliano tragically passed away in February 1998.

Dr. Silvia Bacci (1989-1992). PhD Instituto de Física Balseiro, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina (1989). Dr.Bacci is now a member of the staff of CONICET (Argentina) at at Instituto de Física Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina.

Dr. Andrey V. Chubukov (1991-1993). PhD Moscow State University (Moscow, USSR), 1985. He is now the William I. and Bianca M. Fine Chair in Theoretical Physics, of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (USA).

Dr. Shivaji Sondhi (1992-1995). PhD University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA (1992). Dr.Sondhi is now a Professor of Physics at Princeton University, Princeton NJ (USA).

Dr. Claudio C. Chamon (1995-1997). PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA (1995). Dr. Chamon is now Professor of Physics at Boston University, Boston MA (USA).

Dr. Wengsheng Vincent Liu (1999-2001). PhD University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Liu was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA. He is currently an Associate Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics of Pittsburgh University (Pittsburgh PA).

Dr. Jose María Román Faúndez (1998-2002), PhD Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. He was a member of the staff of the Consejo Superior de Investicación Científica, Madrid, Spain. Currently he is the Director of the Service for Photovoltaic Systems, National Center for Renewable Energies (CENER), Navarra, Spain

Dr. Daniel G. Barci (1999-2001), PhD Universidad de La Plata, Argentina (1995). He is now a Professor of Physics at the Departamento de Fisica, Universidade do Estado de Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil.

Dr. Eddy Ardonne, PhD University of University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is was a postdoc in our group until July 30, 2005. From August 2005 through December 2007 he was a postdoc at the Center for the Physics of Information at Caltech (Pasadena, CA), and at Microsoft Station Q, at the California Nanosystems Institute of the University of California Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA). Dr. Ardonne was a member of the research staff of NORDITA (the joint Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Scandinavian Countries) now located in Stockholm, Sweden. He is now an Assiociate Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics of Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden).

Dr. Victoria Fernández, PhD Universidad de La Plata, Argentina. She was a a postdoc in our group until September 2005. She is currently a member of the staff of CONICET, Argentina, at the Department of Physics, Universidad de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina).

Dr. Kumar S. Raman, PhD Princeton University (Princeton NJ) (2005). He was a Postdoctoral research Associate in my group from August 2005 through August 2007. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Physics of the University of California Riverside. He is currently a member of the scientific staff of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

Dr. Taylor L. Hughes, PhD Stanford University, June 2010. He was a postdoc in my group from August 2009 through August 2011. He is now an Assistant Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics of the University of Illinois.

Dr. Bruno Uchoa, PhD University of Campinas, Brasil, 2007. He was a postdoc in my group from August 2008 through August 2011. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics of the University of Oklahoma.

Dr. Eytan Grosfeld, PhD Weizmann Institute, Israel, 2008. He was a Fellow at ICMT from August 2008 through August 2011. He is now an Assistant Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics of Ben Gurion University (Israel).

Dr. Pouyan Ghaemi, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. He was an ICMT Postdoctoral Fellow and a postdoc in my group from August 2011 through February 2014. He is now an Associate Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics of the City College of New York in New York City, New York.

Dr. Chi Yan Jeffery Teo, PhD University of Pennsylvania, 2012. He was a Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at ICMT and a postdoc in my group from August 2012 through August 2014. He is now an Associate Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Dr. Rudro Rana Biswas, PhD Harvard University, 2011. He was an ICMT Postdoctoral Fellow from August 2011 through August 2014. In August 2014 he became a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Argonne National Laboratory. Since August 2015 he is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics of Purdue University, West Lafayette (Indiana).

Dr. Gil Young Cho, PhD University of California Berkeley, 2013. He was an ICMT Postdoctoral Fellow and a postdoc in my group from August 2013 through March 2015. He is an Assistant Professor of Physics at POSTECH University of Science and Technology (Pohang, Korea).

Dr. David Luitz, PhD Würtzburg University, 2012. He was a postdoc at the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) until August 2015 when he joint ICMT as a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar. Since January 2017 he was a Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technische Universitä München (Munich, Germany). He is now a Professor at the Institute of Physics, Universität Bonn (Germany).

Dr. Victor Chua, PhD University of Texas Austin, 2013. He was a postdoc and a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Illinois from August 2013 through August 2016. He is now in the private sector in Switzerland).

Dr. Luiz H. Santos, PhD Harvard University, 2013. He was a postdoc and a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Illinois from August 2015 through August 2018. He is now an Assistant Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics of Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia).

Dr. Yuxuan Wang, PhD University of Wisconsin Madison, 2015. He was a postdoc and a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Illinois from August 2015 through August 2018. He is currently an Associat Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics of the University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida).

Dr. Peng Ye, PhD Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), 2013. He was a postdoc and a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Illinois from August 2015 through August 2018. He is now a Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics of the Sun Yat-Sen University (Guangzhou, China).

Dr. Eugeniu Plamadeala, PhD University of California Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA), 2016. He was a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Illinois from August 2016 through December 2018. He is now a member of the technical staff of Amazon Web Services (Seattle, Washington).

Dr. Aris Alexandradinata, PhD Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey), 2015. He was a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Illinois from August 2018 through August 2021 2018. He is now an Assistant Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics of the University of California Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, California).

Dr. Laimei Nie, PhD Stanford University (Stanford, California), 2017. She was a postdoctoral Kadanoff Fellow at the Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics of the University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois), 2017-2020, and a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute for Condensed Matter Theory of the University of Illinois (August 2020-December 2022). Since January 2023 she is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana).

Dr. Edwin Huang, PhD Stanford University (Stanford, California), 2019. From August 2019 through July 2023 he was a Gordon and Betty Moore Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute for Condensed Matter Theory of the University of Illinois. Since August 2023 he is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana).

Dr. Xiaoqi Sun, PhD Stanford University (Stanford, California), 2021. From August 2021 through August 2023 he was a Gordon and Betty Moore Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute for Condensed Matter Theory of the University of Illinois. Since August 2023 he is a postdoc at the Max Planck Insitute for Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany).