Physics PhD Students
Eduardo Alejandro
PhD Student
Phone number: 847-467-6588
Office location: Mudd 1173
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Group: Geraci Group
Research Statement: Using cold atoms to sympathetically cool a single nanosphere down to it's vibrational ground-state
Dany Atallah
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8025
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Group: Rasio Group
Research Statement: The dynamical capacity and stability of black hole hierarchies formed in globular clusters beyond triples
Olivia Meredith Bitter
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F418
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Group: de Gouvea Group
Research Statement: My research interests span the field of neutrino phenomenology. Currently my projects include exploring time invariance violation effects in matter with applications to the future DUNE experiment, as well as looking into pseudo-Dirac neutrinos through sterile neutrino extensions.
Nia Burrell
PhD Student
Office location: Mudd 1185
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Group: Geraci Group
Research Statement: Precision measurements and investigation of non-Newtonian short-range gravity using optically levitating nanoparticles.
Daniel Buser
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F321
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Group: Motter Group
Research Statement: The study of links between synchronization and entanglement in coupled spin networks.
Ran Chen
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F140
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Group: Figueroa-Feliciano Group
Research Statement: Developing a sensitive detector to measure the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS)
Danyang Chen
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F225
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Group: Koch Group
Research Statement: Characterizing quantum error correction schemes and developing high fidelity qubit operations on superconducting circuits
Sai Pavan Chitta
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F229
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Group: Koch Group
Research Statement: Simulation and design of protected superconducting qubits
Ken DeRose
PhD Student
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Group: Kovachy Group
Research Statement: Testing Einstein's equivalence principle, the gravitational inverse square law, and searching for forces beyond the Standard Model using atom interferometry
William Eom
PhD Student
Phone number: 847-467-6588
Office location: Mudd 1173
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Group: Geraci Group
Research Statement: Preparing ground-state cooled, optically levitated nanospheres for precision force sensing of Casimir forces and Yukawa-type corrections to gravity
Joshua Fuhrman
PhD Student- Graduated 24-25 school year
Phone number: 847-467-6852
Office location: Tech F140
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Group: Figueroa-Feliciano Group
Research Statement: Supernova remnant study and dark matter search with Micro-X, a NASA Sounding Rocket program flying Transition-Edge Sensors and their SQUID readout system
Ethan Garvey
PhD Student
Office location: Mudd 1177
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Group: Stern Group
Research Statement: Optical experiments for understanding the properties of novel low dimensional magnetic materials and devices
S. Carin Gavin
PhD Student- Graduated 24-25 school year
Phone number: 847-467-3976
Office location: Mudd 1177
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Group: Stern Group
Research Statement: Optical and spin properties of mixed-dimensional heterostructures
Jonah Glick
PhD Student
Office location: Mudd 1164
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Group: Kovachy Group
Research Statement: Development of atom interferometry techniques for precision gravitational measurements, tests of quantum mechanics, and searches for dark matter
Jorin Graham
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F324
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Group: Motter Group
Research Statement: Spreading processes on complex networks; network science and machine learning for cell biology
Scott Grudichak
PhD Student
Phone number: 847-491-5468
Office location: Tech F213
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Group: Geraci Group
Research Statement: Fabrication and characterization of thin film type 2 superconductors, patterned with anti-dot arrays
Cole Kampa
PhD Student
Phone number: 847-467-2477
Office location: Tech F127
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Group: Schmitt Group
Research Statement: Modeling Mu2e experiment's magnetic field. Developing robust statistical analyses for particle physics experiments. Muon capture neutron emission analysis for the AlCap experiment
Taeyoon Kim
PhD Student
Office location: Fermilab TD ICB
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Group: Koch Group
Research Statement: Experimental research of quantum information processing with superconducting qubits and high-Q 3D cavities
Shelby Klomp
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F146
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Group: Geraci Group
Research Statement: Detection of high-frequency gravitational waves using optically levitated dielectric particles
Aakash Lakshmanan
PhD Student
Office location: Dearborn 5
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Group: Kamal Group
Research Statement: Development of theoretical tools to understand topological phases
Yanlin Li
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F265
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Group: Dutta Group
Research Statement: Specific ion effect on surfactant molecules at aqueous interface
Zhi-zhong Li
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F416
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Group: Low Group
Research Statement: Spontaneously broken spacetime symmetries
Siyuan Liu
PhD Student- Graduated 24-25 school year
Phone number: 847-467-9117
Office location: Mudd 1195
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Group: Gabrielse Group
Research Statement: Search for electron Electric Dipole Moment through the ACME experiment
Qiaofeng Liu
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F420
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Group: Low Group
Research Statement: Entanglement in quantum field theory; quantum simulation of fundamental physics
Beverly Lowell
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8029
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Group: Tchekovskoy Group
Research Statement: Dynamically important magnetic fields and black hole spin-down
Michael MacKenzie
PhD Student- Graduated 24-25 school year
Office location: Tech F122
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Group: Velasco Group
Research Statement: Experimental particle physics research on charged-lepton flavor-violating processes at Mu2e and CMS
Austin Marga
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F226
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Group: Chandrasekhar Group
Research Statement: Low temperature fabrication and measurement of superconducting electron interference devices
Nathaniel McDonough
PhD Student
Phone number: 847-467-9116
Office location: Mudd 1195
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Group: Gabrielse Group
Research Statement: Laser cooling and precision spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen
Michael McGinnis
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F127
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Group: Hahn Group
Research Statement: Constraints on di-Higgs production and EFT interpretation with the CMS experiment; data acquisition systems and online track-fitting for CMS and MUonE.
Thomas McKenzie-Smith
PhD Student
Phone number: 610-551-3138
Office location: Tech F318
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Group: Motter Group
Research Statement: Applications of machine learning and networks to the design of complex systems.
Jacob McLaughlin
PhD Student
Phone number: 847-467-3752
Office location: Tech F140
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Research Statement: Characterization of novel backgrounds in large scale xenon-based dark matter detectors and improving their sensitivity to low mass WIMP signals
Yulun Miao
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F127
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Group: Schmitt Group
Research Statement: Searching for three massive gauge boson production at CMS
Nicholas Miller
PhD Student
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Group: Kovachy Group
Research Statement: Searching for ultralight scalar field dark matter through differential strain measurements of cryogenic optical cavities
Geev Nahal
PhD Student
Phone number: 847-467-9116
Office location: Mudd 1195
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Group: Sauls Group
Research Statement: A measurement of the electron and positron magnetic moments
Daehan Park
PhD Student
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Group: Halperin Group
Research Statement: Order parameter collective modes and acoustic properties of superfluid Helium-3 with disorders such as in ultra-dilute aerogel and confinement
Alejandro Rodriguez
PhD Student
Office location: Dearborn 5
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Group: Figueroa-Feliciano Group
Kevin Ryan
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F220
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Group: Chandrasekhar Group
Research Statement: Fabrication and cryogenic magnetotransport of 2D and thin film devices exploring multiferroics, superconductors and related phenomena
Jennifer Sanchez
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8032A
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Group: Kalogera Group
John Scott
PhD Student
Phone number: 847-491-8616
Office location: Tech F226
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Group: Halperin Group
Research Statement: Nuclear magnetic resonance study of properties and phases of Helium 3 in aerogel at ultra-low temperatures
Aslan Seifi
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F416
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Group: Carrasco Group
Research Statement: Scattering Amplitudes, Color-Kinematics duality
Charlotte (Yanxuan) Shao
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F324
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Group: Motter Group
Research Statement: Spontaneous oscillations and more complex dynamics in microfluidic networks
Zhiheng Sheng
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F140
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Research Statement: Data acquisition in scintillating LAr bubble chamber (SBC) for direct dark matter detection
Kagan Simsek
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F420
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Group: Petriello Group
Research Statement: Precision QCD in the Standard Model effective field theory
Zehao Song
PhD Student
Office location: Dearborn 15
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Group: de la Cruz Group
Research Statement: Coarse-grained modeling of the dynamics of driven polyelectrolyte solutions with charge confinement
Lillian Soucy
PhD Student
Office location: Mudd 1195
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Group: Gabrielse Group
Research Statement: Improved precision measurements of the electron and positron magnetic moments
Benedict Sukra
PhD Student
Phone number: 847-467-9116
Office location: Mudd 1195
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Group: Gabrielse Group
Research Statement: Improved measurements of the electron and positron magnetic moments
Imran Sultan
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8032C
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Group: Faucher-Giguere Group
Research Statement: Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of massive galaxy formation
Samvardhan Vishnoi
PhD Student
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Group: Amaral Group
Research Statement: Link prediction methods in complex networks
Aaron (Zhiyuan) Wang
PhD Student
Office location: Mudd 1156
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Group: Geraci Group
Research Statement: Detecting high-frequency gravitational waves with optically levitated micro-sensors
Max Wisne
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F220
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Group: Chandrasekhar Group
Research Statement: Studying Josephson junction physics as it pertains to superconducting qubits and correlated Josephson effects
Suna Zekioglu
PhD Student- Graduated 24-25 school year
Office location: Tech F418
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Group: Carrasco Group
Research Statement: Investigations of hidden structure connecting scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity
Gan Zhai
PhD Student
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Group: Halperin Group
Research Statement: NMR research on novel superconducting compounds
Yi Zhao
PhD Student
Office location: Tech F318
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Group: Motter Group
Research Statement: Genetic network dynamics and complex systems modeling
