Revision as of 18:20, 8 February 2016

Current Group Members:

Group Photo

Group Photo, March 25, 2013 Shpyrko group, Jan 2015. (l-to-r): Oleg Shpyrko, Andrej Singer, Andrew Ulvestad, James Wingert, Leandra Boucheron, Jacob Stanley, Sebastian Dietze, Roopali Kookreja, Jong Woo Kim

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

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:
Dr. Roopali Kukreja	Dr. Roopali Kukreja, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014-present B.S. M.S. Ph.D. Physics, 2014 Research Topic:

Graduate Students

James Wingert	James Wingert, Graduate Student 2013-present
Nelson Hua	Nelson Hua, Graduate Student 2014-present

Staff

Undergraduate Students

Olesya Kovalchuk

Olesya Kovalchuk, Undergraduate Student 2015-present

Alumni

Leandra Boucheron	Leandra Boucheron, Graduate Student, 2010-2015 B.S. Physics, New Mexico Tech, 2010 M.S. Physics, UC San Diego, 2012 Ph.D. Physics, UC San Diego, 2015 Research Topic: Soft Matter and Liquid Surface Scattering
Andrew Ulvestad	Andrew Ulvestad, Graduate Student, 2012-2015 B.S. Physics, UC San Diego, 2010 M.S. Physics, U Chicago, 2012 Ph.D. Physics, UC San Diego, 2015 Research Topic: Coherent Imaging and XPCS
Sebastian Dietze	Sebastian Dietze, Graduate Student, 2008-2015 B.S. Physics, U Texas Austin, 2008 M.S. Physics, UC San Diego, 2010 Ph.D. Physics, UC San Diego, 2015 Research Topic: Magnetic nanostructures.
Jacob Stanley	Jacob Stanley, Graduate Student, 2008-2015 B.S. Physics and B.S. Math, UC Santa Cruz, 2007 M.S. Physics, UC San Diego, 2009 Ph.D. Physics, UC San Diego, 2015 Research Topic: Surface Scattering
Moses Marsh	Moses Marsh, Graduate Student, 2009-2013 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, 2009-2015 M. Sc. Seoul National University Ph.D., UC San Diego, 2015 Research Topic: Superconductivity and Correlated Electron Systems
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. Physics, UC San Diego, 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
Christopher Parzyck	Christopher Parzyck, undergraduate researcher, 2012-2013
Eva Isaacs	Eva Isaacs, undergrad researcher, 2012-2013
	Gurleen Bal Current Whereabouts: Physics Graduate Student at UCLA
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
	LLuvia Rodriguez
	Anashe Bandari Currently a Physics Graduate Student
	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
	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.