RESEARCH TEAM MEMBERS


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


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



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.
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

