Alumni
Post docs trained in the group who proceeded to become Principle Investigators on major USA proposals/centers of Office of Science (DOE) and NSF proposals include S.B. Zhang, Lin Wang Wang, Chris Wolveron, Laurent Bellaiche, Vidvuds Ozolins, Fernano Redoredo, Gus Hart, Paul Kent, and Stephan Lany.
25 of the post docs trained in the group became later professors in various universities.
Post doc trained in the group that were later hired into different positions at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) include: David Wood, S.H.Wei, Sverre Froyen, Sheng Bai Zhang, Lin Wang Wang, Chris Wolverton, Alberto Franceschetti, Kwiseon Kim, Stephan Lany, and Mayeul d’Avezac. Two have remained at NREL since.
Past and Present Postdoctoral/Sabbatical Scholars Advised by Alex Zunger
1 | Ulf Lindefelt | Professor, Dept. of Physics, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden. |
2 | V. J. Singh | Professor, Dept. of Physics, Indian Inst. of Tech., Kanpur, India. |
3 | John E. Jaffe | Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Idaho. |
4 | Adalberto Fazzio | Professor, Dept. of Physics, San Paulo University, Brazil. |
5 | Marilia Caldas | Professor, Dept. of Physics, San Paulo University, Brazil. |
6 | Hiroshi Yoshida | Professor, Dept. of Physics, Osaka University, Japan. |
7 | J.L. Martins | Professor, Dept. of Physics, Inst. Superior Technico, Lisbon, Portugal. |
8 | David Wood | Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc, then Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Physics, Colo. School of Mines, Golden, CO. |
9 | G.P. Srivastava | Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of Exeter, U.K. |
10 | Jim Bernard | Staff Member, Dept. of Physics, Colo. School of Mines, Golden, CO. |
11 | Abdul Aziz Mbaye | Cultural Minister, the Republic of Senegal. |
12 | S.H. Wei | Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now Research Fellow at NREL. |
13 | Sverre Froyen | Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now Software Company, CO. |
14 | L.G. Ferreira | Professor, Dept. of Physics, Campinas University, Brazil. |
15 | Z.W. Lu | Staff Member, University of California, Davis, CA. |
16 | Robert G. Dandrea | Staff Scientist, David Sarnoff (previously RCA) Research Labs. |
17 | Rita Magri | Research Associate, Department of Physics, Univ. of Modena, Italy. |
18 | Sheng Bai Zhang | Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now Professor university Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY |
19 | Roberto Osorio | Financial Business Computer Simulations, CA. |
20 | David Laks | Financial Business Computer Simulations (Wall Street), New York, NY. |
21 | Chin-Yu Yeh | Technical Staff Member, IBM Almaden, CA. |
22 | Lin Wang Wang | Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now Staff Member, Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Laboratory, Berkeley, CA. |
23 | Chris Wolverton | Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now Professor, Northwestern University |
24 | Alberto Francescetti | Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now retired. |
25 | Kurt Mader | Division Manager, ELCA Informatik, Zürich, Switzerland. |
26 | Laurent Bellaiche | Professor, Department of Physics, University of Arkansas. |
27 | Huaxiang Fu | Professor, Department of Physics, University of Arkansas. |
28 | Vidvuds Ozolins | Professor, Department of Materials Science UCLA |
29 | Jeonim Kim | Staff, Oak Ridge National Lab |
30 | Tomy Mattila | Technical Staff Member, VTT National Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland. |
31 | J. H. Cho | Professor, Dept. of Physics, Hanyang University, Korea |
32 | Andrew Williamson | Intellectual Property startup company |
33 | Fernando Reboredo | Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
34 | Stephan Muller | Professor, TUHH Technische Universitat Hamburg, Germany |
35 | John Shumway | Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, AZ. |
36 | Kwiseon Kim | Hired as NREL Staff after post doc. Now retired |
37 | Gus Hart | Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University |
38 | Selva Nair | Senior Researcher, ECAN, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. |
39 | Mahdi Sanaty | Associate Professor Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX |
40 | Paul Kent | Staff member, Oak Ridge National Lab. |
41 | Priya Mahadevan | S.N. Bose National Centre Department of Condensed Matter Physics Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
42 | LigenWang | Professor, State Key University, China |
43 | Cetin Kilic | Gebze Technical University, Turkey |
44 | Volker Blum | Assistant Professor, Duke University, North Carolina. |
45 | Gabriel Bester | Professor, Hamburg University, Germany. |
46 | Marco Califano | Staff Scientist, University of Leeds, U.K. |
47 | Class Person | Assistant Professor, Department of Physics University of Oslo, Norway |
48 | Yu Jun Zhao | Professor, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China |
49 | Sergey Dudiy | Maya Heat Transfer Technologies Ltd. Montreal, Quebec,Canada |
50 | Lixin He | Professor, Hefei University of Technology, China |
51 | Gustavo Narvaez | Scientist, Eclipse Energy Systems, Inc. |
52 | Sergey Barabash | Manager, Materials and Device Simulations / Senior Scientist at Intermolecular Inc. San Jose, California |
53 | Roman Chepulskyy | Staff Engineer, Material Modeling at Samsung Semiconductor R&D San Francisco |
54 | Joonhee An | Nanotechnology Professional Los Angeles, California |
55 | S. Lany | Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now senior scientist, NREL |
56 | Giancarlo Trimarchi | Research Associate, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA |
57 | Zhe Liu | Senior Lecturer Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Monash University Australia |
58 | Paulo Piquini | Professor, Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil |
59 | Hannes Raebiger | Professor Yokohama National University, faculty of Engineering Science |
60 | Mayeul d’Avezac | Technical staff, University College of London |
61 | Voicu Popescu | Researcher, Faculty of Physics University Duisburg-Essen Germany |
62 | Jun-Wei Luo | Professor, Chinese Academy of Science, China |
63 | Jennifer Chan | Imperial College, London |
64 | Koushik Biswas | Assistant Professor, Physics Arkansas state university |
65 | Vladan Mlinar | School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, USA |
66 | Xiuwen Zhang | Assistant Professor, University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥, Boulder, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute |
67 | Julien Vidal | Research Engineer at EDF R&D University of Paris |
68 | Arkady Mikhaylushkin | Professor, Chinese Academy of Science, China |
69 | Tula Paudel | Research Assistant Professor a University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
70 | Lijun Zhang | Professor, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University Changchun, China |
71 | Liping Yu | Research Associate professor, Temple University |
72 | Vladan Stevanovic | Associate professor, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ School of Mines |
73 | Associate Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China | |
74 | Yongang Yu | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
75 | Leonardo Batoni Abdalla | Universidade de São Paulo |
76 | Gustavo M. Dalpian | Professor, Universidade de São Paulo |
77 | Zhi Wang | Professor, Chinese Academy of Science, China |
78 | Carlos Mera Acosta | Professor, Federal University of ABC, Brazil |
79 | Xingang Zhao | Professor, Northeast Normal University, China |
80 | Xiaoli Zhang | Professor, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
81 | Oleksandr Malyi | Professor, ENSEMBLE Centre of Excellence, Wolczynska Warsaw, Poland |
82 | Linding Yuan | Northwestern University |
83 | Fernando Pereira Sabino | Federal University of ABC, Brazil |
84 | Jia-Xin Xiong | University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥, Boulder, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute |