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 StevanovicAssociate professor, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ School of Mines

73

 Qihang Liu

Associate Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

74

 Yongang Yu

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

75 Leonardo Batoni AbdallaUniversidade de São Paulo
76 Gustavo M. DalpianProfessor, Universidade de São Paulo
77 Zhi WangProfessor, Chinese Academy of Science, China
78 Carlos Mera AcostaProfessor, Federal University of ABC, Brazil
79 Xingang ZhaoProfessor, Northeast Normal University, China
80 Xiaoli ZhangProfessor, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
81 Oleksandr MalyiProfessor, ENSEMBLE Centre of Excellence, Wolczynska Warsaw, Poland
82 Linding YuanNorthwestern University
83 Fernando Pereira SabinoFederal University of ABC, Brazil
84 Jia-Xin XiongUniversity of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥, Boulder, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute

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Gathering of past post docs in Los Angeles APS meeting 2018

Gathering of past post docs in Denver APS meeting 2014