Group Members

Current Group Members:

Group Photo

Group Photo, Aug 17, 2011 (l-to-r): Oleg Shpyrko, Moses Marsh, Sebastian Dietze, Ash Tripathi, Alisa Agafonova, Jacob Stanley, Gurleen Bal, Yeling Dai, Leandra Boucheron, Brandon Stevenson, Jong Woo Kim and Edwin Fohtung

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 Office: Mayer Hall 3210 (Where is it?) Phone (Google Voice, preferred): 858-952-1248 Phone (Office): 858-534-3066

Postdoctoral fellows:

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.S. Physics, New Mexico Tech 2010 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: Fresnel Coherent Diffractive Imaging
Alisa Agafonova	Alisa Agafonova

Undergraduate Students:

	Gurleen Bal
Brandon Stevenson	Brandon Stevenson, Undergraduate Student 2006-2010 B.S. Physics, UC San Diego 2010 Research Topic: Fresnel Coherent Diffractive Imaging

Alumni:

	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
	Anashe Bandari
	Charles Neill Research Topic: Light Scattering Current Whereabouts: Physics Graduate Student at UC Santa Barbara
	David Kirszenblat Research Topic: Light Scattering.
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 applying his knowledge of x-ray imaging and laser scattering to problems in Medical Imaging at UCSD Cancer Center.