RESEARCH TEAM MEMBERS

KAREN CANAAN

Administrative Assistant

Email: kc3387@columbia.edu

MICHAEL DAPOLITO

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Nano-optics technique development 2D materials.

Email: md4108@columbia.edu


YINAN DONG

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Cryogenic scanning nearfield techniques, quasiparticle behavior under high bias, exciton and phonons in special Van der Waals materials.

Email: yd2400@columbia.edu

MATTHEW FU

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Nano-optics of excitons in 2D heterostructures and development of nano-optic techniques

Email : mf3364@columbia.edu


YUNFEI HUANG

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Ultrafast transportation, optoelectronics

Email: yh3527@columbia.edu

BJARKE SOERENSEN JESSEN

Postdoctoral Fellow


SAMUEL MOORE

Graduate Student

Research interests: Near-field modifications of optical transition spectra, ultrafast/non-equilibrium near-field phenomena.

Email : slm2236@columbia.edu

DAN RIZZO

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Nano-Optical and magnetic imaging of 2D magnets and their heterostructures

Email: djr2181@columbia.edu


FRANK RUTA

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Near-field optics of materials with highly anisotropic dielectric tensors or polariton modes with tunable isofrequency topology or coupling

YINMING SHAO

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Topological semimetals, 2D materials and near-field techniques.

Personal website

Email : shaoyinming@gmail.com


ROCCO VITALONE

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Correlated Electron Systems

Email : rav2140@columbia.edu

Suheng Xu

Graduate Student

Research Interests: THz nano-imaging and nano-spectroscopy, ultrafast optics, and machine learning

Email: sx2277@columbia.edu


SHUAI ZHANG

Postdoctoral Fellow

Email : sz2822@columbia.edu

SONGTIAN ZHANG

Postdoctoral Fellow

Email: sz2985@columbia.edu


YUCHEN LIN

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Time-resolved nano-imaging and spectroscopy

Email : yl5341@columbia.edu

NEIL HAZRA

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Nano-optical properties of vdW materials

Email : nh2792@columbia.edu


ANNA MA

Undergraduate Student

Computer Support & Information Services Assistant

Email : sm5157@columbia.edu