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Group Photo, Aug 5, 2010. L-to-R: David Kirszenblat, Charles Neil, Leandra Boucheron, Sebastien Dietze, Veronica Burnett, Jong Woo Kim, Moses Marsh, Yeling Dai, Oleg Shpyrko. Not pictured: graduate student Ash Tripathi (working/based in Argonne National Lab near Chicago) and undergraduates: Sam Stanwyck, Michael Folkerts, LLuvia Rodriguez and Anache Bandari

Principal Investigator:

Prof. Oleg Shpyrko

Oleg Shpyrko
Assistant 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

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Postdoctoral fellow(s):

Dr. Edwin Fohtung

Dr. Edwin Fohtung, Postdoctoral Fellow 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 and novel coherent x-ray imaging techniques to study the fundamental physics of novel materials with potential technological importance.

Graduate Students:

Ash Tripathi	Ash Tripathi, Graduate Student B.S. Electrical Engineering, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2005 M.S. Physics, UC San Diego 2007 Research Topic: Novel coherent x-ray imaging techniques, ptychographic iterative engine, lens-less imaging. Nanodiffraction studies of metal-insulator transition.
Yeling Dai	Yeling Dai, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, The University of Science and Technology of China, 2006 Research Topic: Dynamics of nanoconfined materials, Liquid Surface Scattering.
Sebastian Dietze	Sebastian Dietze, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, U Texas Austin 2008 Research Topic: Magnetic nanostructures
Moses Marsh	Moses Marsh, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, Univ. of California Santa Barbara 2009 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. Sc. Physics, New Mexico Tech. Research Topic: Soft Matter and Liquid Surface Scattering
Leandra Boucheron	Alisa Agafonova, Graduate Student 2011-present Research Topic: Optics, Soft Matter
Leandra Boucheron	Jacob Stanley, Graduate Student 2011-present Research Topic: Optics, Soft Matter

Undergraduate Students:

Michael Folkerts	Michael Folkerts Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems. Light Scattering.
Sam Stanwyck	Sam Stanwyck Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems. Light Scattering.
Veronica Burnett	Veronica Burnett Research Topic: Morphological instabilities in polymer nanostructures.
	LLuvia Rodriguez
	Anashe Bandari
	Charles Neill Research Topic: Light Scattering
	David Kirszenblat Research Topic: Light Scattering.

Group Alumni:

Loic Jacot Descombes	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.
	Sarah Garcia, undergraduate student, 2008-2009
	Andrew McLeod, undergraduate student, 2008-2009 Current Whereabouts: Scotland, via UCSD exchange program.
	Kevin Duggento, undergraduate student, 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

Collaborators:

• Dmitri Basov (UCSD)
• Eric Fullerton (UCSD)
• Ivan Schuller (UCSD)
• Sunny Sinha (UCSD)
• Brian Maple (UCSD)
• Peter Pershan (Harvard)
• Eric Isaacs (U. Chicago, Argonne National Lab)
• Kyle Alvine (Pacific Northwest National Lab)
• Moshe Deutsch (Bar Ilan U., Israel)
• Tom Rosenbaum (U Chicago)
• Patrick Huber (Saarland U., Germany)
• Ben Ocko (Brookhaven)
• Masa Fukuto (Brookhaven)
• Oleg Gang (Brookhaven)
• Elaine DiMasi (Brookhaven)
• Gabe Aeppli (UC London)
• Thomas Russell (UMass)
• Steve Kevan (U. Oregon)
• Sujoy Roy (ALS, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
• John Mitchell (Argonne)
• Alec Sandy, Michael Sprung, Suresh Narayanan (Sector 8, APS, Argonne)
• Jeff Elam and Michael Pellin (MSD&ES, Argonne)
• Xiao Min Lin (CNM, Argonne)
• Martin Holt and Jorg Maser (X-ray Nanoprobe, CNM, Argonne)
• Binhua Lin, Mati Meron (CARS, U. Chicago)
• Ivan Kuzmenko, Thomas Gog (Sector 9, APS, Argonne)
• Zahir Islam, Jonathan Lang (Sector 4, APS, Argonne)
• Ross Harder, Ian McNulty, Zhonghou Cai (APS, Argonne)
• Paul Zschack (APS, Argonne)
• Alexei Grigoriev, Paul Evans (U. Wisconsin, Madison)

Our group currently has several openings at postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate student level.

Contact Oleg Shpyrko for more information

Examples of Research Directions:

• Nanoscale Dynamics using X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
• Coherent X-ray Microscopy
• Nanoconfined liquids
• Atomic Structure of Liquid-Solid and Liquid-Vapor Interfaces
• Mesoscale phase separation in electronic and magnetic materials
• Search for Novel Superconducting Materials
• Metallic Glasses and Liquids

List of relevant references:

O. G. Shpyrko et al., "Direct measurement of antiferromagnetic domain fluctuations" Nature 447, 68 (2007)

R. Jaramillo et al., "Microscopic and Macroscopic Signatures of Antiferromagnetic Domains" Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 117206 (2007) O. G. Shpyrko et al., "Surface Crystallization in a Liquid AuSi Alloy" Science 313, 77 (2006)

K. J. Alvine, O. G. Shpyrko et al., "Capillary filling of anodized alumina nanopore arrays" Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 175503 (2006)

E. D. Isaacs, "Microscopy: X-ray nanovision", Nature 442, 35 (2006)