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Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Researchers, and Faculty

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Brian R. D’Urso

Associate Professor

  • Bachelor of Science in Physics, California Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D. in Physics, Harvard University

Paul Nachman

Affiliate Research Professor

  • Bachelor of Arts in Physics, Carleton College
  • Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago

Cody Jessup

Graduate student

  • Bachelor of Science in Physics and Politics, Hillsdale College

Connor Murphy

Graduate student

  • Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics, Grove City College

Dakota Chapman

Graduate student

  • Bachelor of Science in Physics, Montana State University

Undergraduate Students

Sage McNulty

Undergraduate student

Steven Mattson

Undergraduate student

Carson Sander

Undergraduate student

Alumni

Bradley Slezak

2016-2020
Graduate student and postdoctoral researcher, now Staff Physicist at AdvR (Bozeman, MT).

Charles Lewandowski

2015-2020
Graduate Student, now NRC postdoc at AFRL (Albuquerque, NM).

Walter Klahold

2018-2019

Postdoctoral researcher, now Electronics Engineer at Green Bank Observatory (Green Bank, WV).

Jen-Feng Hsu

2011-2016
Graduate student (first to develop magneto-gravitational trap and trap diamond microcrystals), now Detector Physicist at Kromek (Zelienople, PA).

Elliot Jenner

2008-2015
Graduate student (studies of nanostructured and superhydrophobic materials).

Shonali Dhingra

2009-2015
Graduate student (fabrication of graphene nanomechanical devices, and use of NV centers in diamond for QND measurements), now postdoc at UCLA.