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


CALEB HEUVEL-HORWITZ

Lab Technician

Email: ch3691@columbia.edu

YUNFEI HUANG

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Ultrafast transportation, optoelectronics

Email: yh3527@columbia.edu


BJARKE SOERENSEN JESSEN

Postdoctoral Fellow

RAN JING

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Cryogenic THz near-field microscopy, strongly correlated electron systems, 2D materials, and topological insulators

Email: jr.jimmyjing@gmail.com


BRIAN S. KIM

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Research interests: Quantum materials and devices, photonics, nano-optics, and graphene plasmonics.

SAMUEL MOORE

Graduate Student

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

Email : slm2236@columbia.edu


GONZALO ALVAREZ PEREZ

Fulbright Visiting Graduate Student

Email: gonzaloalvarez@uniovi.es

TRISTIN RICE

Research Assistant

Email: tr2729@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

AARON STERNBACH

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Strongly correlated electron systems.

Email : aaronsternbach11@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