Former Group Members

Graduate Students

• Don Futaba, Ph.D. Dec. 2000, Research Scientist, Research Center for Advanced Carbon Materials, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan.
• David Muzzall, Ph.D. March, 2001, Financial Analyst, DRW Trading in Chicago, Illinois.
• Christie Devlin, Ph.D. June, 2001, Staff Scientist, General Dynamics Information Technology, AFRL/MLPJ Laser Lithography Lab, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
• Gayle Thayer, Ph.D. September, 2001. Winner of the prestigious Wayne B. Nottingham Prize at the Physical Electronics Conference, Taos, NM, June 11-13, 2001, for best surface science thesis presented at the conference. Staff Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California.
  
• Albert Loui, Ph.D. March, 2005, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.
• Shon Prisbrey, Ph.D. June, 2005, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.
• Yu Sato, Ph.D. September, 2005, Application Scientist, Gatan Inc., Pleasanton, California.
• Donell Brandon Hoffman, Ph.D. March, 2007. Winner of Second Prize for the Margaret Burbridge Student Award for Best Experimental Research at the American Physical Society (APS) California Section Meeting, California State University, Sacramento, CA, Oct. 21-22, 2005. Associate Professor and Chair of Physics, Houghton College, Houghton, New York.
• Jason Giacomo, Ph.D. December, 2009. Winner of First Prize for the Margaret Burbridge Award for Best Experimental Research by a Graduate Student at the  American Physical Society (APS) California Section Meeting, California State University, Long Beach, CA, Oct. 27-28, 2006. Spectroscopist, Air Quality Research Center, UC Davis, Davis, California.
• Cory Mullet, Ph.D. 2012. Process Engineer, Intel Corporation
• Marshall van Zijll, Ph.D. 2014, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry, UC Davis
  
• Tracey Johnson, Lecturer, Santa Rosa Junior College, California
• Bret Stenger, Portland, Oregon.
  

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Geoff Anderson, Director of Engineering, Western Digital Corporation, Fremont, California
• Christopher Pearson, Professor, University of Michigan, Flint, Michigan
• Yungui Li, Engineer, Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore.
  
• Yu Sato, Ph.D. September, 2005, Application Scientist, Gatan Inc., Pleasanton, California.

Undergraduate Thesis Students

• Kelly Campos, B.S. Physics with highest honors, June 1996.
  
• James Landry, B.S. Physics with highest honors, June, 2000. Ph.D. Physics, UC Davis, 2008. Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Davis.
• Jacob Shine, B.S. Physics with highest honors, June 2002.
• James Morad, B.S. Physics with highest honors, Dec. 2010. Ph.D. Student, UC Davis.
• Gregory Czap, B.S. Physics with highest honors, June 2011. Ph.D. Student, UC Irvine.
• Eric Poppenheimer, B.S. Physics with highest honors, June 2011. M.S. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
• Alexander Sherman, B.S. Physics with high honors, June 2012. Ph.D. Student, Boston University

Undergraduate Researchers (since 2010)

• Emilie Huffman, REU student, summer 2010, from Union University, Jackson, TN. Ph.D. Student, Duke University
• Dylan Lovinger, REU student, summer 2011, from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Ph.D. Student, UC San Diego
• Daniel Rubin, B.S. Physics, June 2012. Ph.D. Student, Northeastern University.
• Samantha MacIntyre Spangler, REU student, summer 2012, from Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA.
• Madeleine Mailly, REU student, summer 2013, from Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
• Alex Dorsett, REU student, summer 2014; UC Davis undergraduate 2014-2016. Ph.D. student, UC Santa Barbara.
• Jimmy Miller, REU student, summer 2015; from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN.
  
• Erin Russell, Physics undergraduate, 2015-2016.
  
• Nur Syazana Natasha Hisham, Chemistry undergraduate 2015-2016; B.S. Chemistry, June 2016, UC Davis.
• Hala Alsaid, Physics undergraduate, Spring 2016.
  
• Hazel Betz, REU student, summer 2016; Oregon State University, Corvallis OR.
• Fransicso Rodriguez, Materials Science undergraduate; Fall 2016.
  
• Cicely Potter, REU student, summer 2017, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT.
• Haozhe Huang, Physics undergraduate, Spring 2018.
• Valerie Gugliada, REU student, summer 2018, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.

High School Students

• David Liu, summer 2005, Davis Senior High School, Class of 2006.
  
• Catriana Paw U, summer 2014, Davis Senior High School, Class of 2015
• Gina Talcott, summer 2018, Rio Americano High School, Sacramento, CA, Class of 2019.
  

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