Research Team Members
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ALIAKSEI CHARNUKHA
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Investigation of the itinerant-carrier dynamics of unconventional superconductors and strongly correlated electron systems in the THz and far-infrared spectral range by means of far- and near-field optical spectroscopy/microscopy at cryogenic temperatures.
Email : acharnukha@ucsd.edu
ROCCO VITALONE
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Correlated Electron Systems
Email : rav2140@columbia.edu
ALEX SWINTON MCLEOD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research interests: Low temperature plasmonics in ultra-high mobility graphene; tunable insulator-metal transitions in strained correlated oxides and charge density wave systems; scanning near-field optical microscopy at low temperatures; theory and interpretation of near-field optical microscopy.
Projects: Guiding & controlling ballistic plasmons in high mobility graphene devices; nano-optics of graphene modulated by a tunable Moiré potential; infrared nano-imaging and spectroscopy of insulator-metal transitions in strained vanadates, nickelates, & ruthenates.
TED STINSON
Graduate Student
Research interests: Near-field spectroscopy, high-Tc Superconductivity, Terahertz Time-Domain spectroscopy.
Projects: Construction of a novel THz near-field microscope for spectroscopic measurements in ultra-high vacuum.
Email : hstinson@physics.ucsd.edu
AARON STERNBACH
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Strongly correlated electron systems.
Email : aaronsternbach11@gmail.com
SAMUEL MOORE
Graduate Student
Research interests: Near-field modifications of optical transition spectra, ultrafast/non-equilibrium near-field phenomena.
Email : slm2236@columbia.edu
YINMING SHAO
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Topological Insulators and 2D materials.
Email : shaoyinming@gmail.com
LIN XIONG
Graduate Student
RAN JING
Graduate Student