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Current Group Members:

Group Photo

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Group Photo, March 25, 2013 Shpyrko group, March 2013. Sitting (l-to-r):

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, Cameroon, 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:

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
Christopher Parzyck	Christopher Parzyck, undergraduate researcher, 2012-2013
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.