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Current Group Members:

Group Photo

Group Photo, March 25, 2013 Shpyrko group, March 2013. Sitting (l-to-r): James Wingert, Sebastian Dietze, Jacob Stanley, Edwin Fohtung, Yeling Dai & Vince Chen *, Standing: Oleg Shpyrko, Jong Woo Kim, Leandra Boucheron, Marion Fuhrman, Andrew Ulvestad. Not present are graduate student Moses Marsh and undergraduate students, Eva Isaacs and Chris Parzyck

Group Photo, March 25, 2013 (l-to-r): Oleg Shpyrko, Jim Wingert, Jong Woo Kim, Sebastian Dietze, Leandra Boucheron, Edwin Fohtung, Marion Fuhrman, Andrew Ulvestad, Jacob Stanley, Yeling Dai

'*' group member in law
Countries Represented: U.S.A, Ukraine, South Korea, France, Germany, People's Republic of China, Taiwan.

Principal Investigator:

Prof. Oleg Shpyrko

Oleg Shpyrko
Associate Professor, Department of Physics

University of California San Diego
Ph.D. 2004, Physics, Harvard University

Research Group Webpage: oleg.ucsd.edu

Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University, 2004 (CV)

Office: Mayer Hall 3210 (Where is it?), 9500 Gilman Dr., MC-0319, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319
Phone (Google Voice, preferred): 858-952-1248
Phone (Office): 858-534-3066

Postdoctoral Fellows:

Dr. Andrej Singer

Dr. Andrej Singer, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-present
B.S.
M.S.
Ph.D. Physics, 2013

Research Topic:

Graduate Students:

Sebastian Dietze	Sebastian Dietze, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, U Texas Austin 2008 M.S. Physics, UC San Diego 2010. Research Topic: Magnetic nanostructures.
Moses Marsh	Moses Marsh, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, Univ. of California Santa Barbara 2009 M.S. Physics, UC San Diego 2011. Research Topic: Superconductivity and Correlated Electron Systems
Jong Woo Kim	Jong Woo Kim, MSE Graduate Student 2009-present M. Sc. Seoul National University Research Topic: Superconductivity and Correlated Electron Systems
Leandra Boucheron	Leandra Boucheron, Graduate Student 2010-present B.S. Physics, New Mexico Tech 2010 M.S. Physics, UC San Diego 2012 Research Topic: Soft Matter and Liquid Surface Scattering
Jacob Stanley	Jacob Stanley, Graduate Student 2008-present B.S Physics and B.S. Math, UC Santa Cruz 2007. M.S. Physics, UC San Diego 2009. Research Topic: Surface Scattering, X-ray Source construction
Andrew Ulvestad	Andrew Ulvestad, Graduate Student 2012-present B.S Physics, UCSD, 2010 M.S. Physics, U Chicago, 2012 Research Topic: Coherent Imaging and XPCS
James Wingert	James Wingert,Graduate Student 2013-present

Staff:

Undergraduate Students:

Christopher Parzyck

Alumni:

Yeling Dai	Yeling Dai, Graduate Student, 2008-2013 B.S. Physics, The University of Science and Technology of China, 2006 M.S. Physics, UC San Diego 2008. Ph.D. Physics, UC San Diego 2013. Research Topic: Dynamics of nanoconfined materials, Liquid Surface Scattering.
Dr. Edwin Fohtung	Edwin Fohtung, , Postdoctoral Fellow 2011-2013 B.Sc. Technical Physics, Minor - Physical Electronics, St Petersburg State Technical University, Russia 2005 M.Sc. Technical Physics , Minor - Physical Electronics, 2007 Ph.D. Physics\Material Science, University of Freiburg, Germany 2010 Research Topic: Combination of first-principles, semi-empirical techniques. Novel coherent x-ray diffraction imaging techniques to study the fundamental physics of novel materials with potential technological importance. Strain Mediated Magnetoelectric Coupling as a route to Novel Hybrid Multiferroic Devices Switching of Ferroelectrics Domains and Magnetoelectric coupling in heterostructures
Ash Tripathi	Ash Tripathi, Graduate Student, 2007-2012 B.S. Electrical Engineering, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2005 M.S. Physics, UC San Diego 2007 Ph.D., UCSD 2012 Research Topic: Novel coherent x-ray imaging techniques, ptychographic iterative engine, lens-less imaging. Nanodiffraction studies of metal-insulator transition.
Marion Fuhrmann	Marion Fuhrmann,visting student March-June,2013
Eva Isaacs	Eva Isaacs, undergrad researcher, 2012-2013
	Gurleen Bal Current Whereabouts: Volunteer, Teach for America
Brandon Stevenson	Brandon Stevenson, Undergraduate Student 2006-2010 B.S. Physics, UC San Diego 2010 Research Topic: Fresnel Coherent Diffractive Imaging, Two-color imaging. Current Whereabouts: Physics Graduate Student at UCLA
	Sam Stanwyck Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems. Light Scattering. Current Whereabouts: Physics Graduate Student at Stanford
	Veronica Burnett Current Whereabouts: Physics Graduate Student at UC San Diego
	LLuvia Rodriguez Currently a Physics Graduate Student, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
	Anashe Bandari Currently a Physics Graduate Student, California State University, Long Beach
	Charles Neill Research Topic: Light Scattering Current Whereabouts: Physics Graduate Student at UC Santa Barbara
	David Kirszenblat Research Topic: Light Scattering. , Currently a Physics Graduate Student, University of Melbourne
Loic Jacot Dewcombes	Loic Jacot Descombes, visiting student, Nov 2008-April 2009 Masters Student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland Masters Thesis: Dynamic Light Scattering studies of fluid microdynamics (PDF) B.S. Physics, Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne, Switzerland 2007 Research Topic: Light Scattering Studies of micro- and nano-particles. Current Whereabouts: ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Magnus Heinz	Magnus Heinz, undergraduate researcher, 2009-2010 Current Whereabouts: Master's program in Computational Science, University of Frankfurt, Germany.
	Sarah Garcia, undergraduate researcher, 2008-2009
	Andrew McLeod, undergraduate researcher, 2008-2009 Current Whereabouts: Scotland, via UCSD exchange program.
	Kevin Duggento, undergraduate researcher, 2008-2009
Dr. Jyoti Mohanty	Dr. Jyoti Mohanty, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2009 Research Topic: X-ray magnetic dichroism studies of magnetic thin films, magnetic and orbital domains in manganese oxides, charge density wave systems. Currently a Scientist at Technical University Berlin. Jyoti's website
	Michael Folkerts undergraduate researcher, 2008-2010 Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems. Light Scattering. Mike is currently a UCSD Physics Ph.D. student in Medical Imaging at UCSD Cancer Center.