Principal Investigator
Lena F. Kourkoutis
she | her | hers
Associate Professor
School of Applied and Engineering Physics
CABES, Method Thrust Co-Leader
Graduate Students
Lopa Bhatt
she | her | hers
B.S., University of Illinois at Chicago
E-mail: lb628-at-cornell.edu
Michael Colletta
B.A., Vassar College
E-mail: mrc297-at-cornell.edu
Danielle Markovich
B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CABES Fellow, 2019-21
E-mail: dm844-at-cornell.edu
Noah Schnitzer
he | him | his
B.S., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Webb@KIC Fellow, 2020-21
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
E-mail: nis29-at-cornell.edu
Yue Yu
B.A., Grinnell College
E-mail: yy758-at-cornell.edu
Former Members
Postdoctoral Fellows
Prof. Robert Hovden
Postdoctoral Researcher, Cornell University | 2014-2016
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, MSE | 2017-present
Dr. Elisabeth F. Bianco
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University | 2018-2021
Development Scientist, Micron Technology | 2021-present
Graduate Students
Dr. David Baek
Ph.D., Cornell University | 2018
Intel Corp. | 2018-present
Dr. Benjamin H. Savitzky
Ph.D., Cornell University | 2018
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 2018-present
Dr. Michael J. Zachman
Ph.D., Cornell University | 2018
Oak Ridge National Laboratory | 2018-present
Dr. Jade M. Noble
Ph.D., Cornell University | 2018
U.S. Food and Drug Administration | 2018-present
Dr. Katherine A. Spoth
Ph.D., Cornell University | 2018
Cornell Center for Materials Research | 2018-2022
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute | 2022-present
Dr. Ismail El Baggari
Ph.D., Cornell University | 2020
The Rowland Institute at Harvard | 2020-present
Dr. Berit H. Goodge
Ph.D., Cornell University | 2022
UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley | 2022-present
Schmidt Science Fellow | 2022-present
Dr. Michelle Smeaton
Ph.D., Cornell University | 2022
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory | 2023-present
Xue Bai
M.S., Cornell University | 2015
Google Inc. | 2015-present
Dr. Pengzi Liu
M.S., Cornell University | 2015
Ph.D., Yale University | 2022
Colin Bundschu
M.S., Cornell University | 2018
Ph.D. student, Cornell University | 2018-present
Laila Hayani
M.S., Cornell University | 2019
Ph.D. student, University of Michigan | 2019-2021
Data Analyst, Naima Health | 2021-present
Taylor Moon
M.S., Cornell University | 2021
Undergraduate Researchers
Jeffrey Commons
REU Student | Summer 2013
Ph.D. Student, Physics, University of Washington | 2018-present
Jerry Contreras
REU Student | Summer 2014
Physics, The University of Texas-Pan American
Dr. Mallika Bariya
Undergraduate Researcher | 2014-15
Ph.D. student, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley | 2016-present
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Suk Hyun Sung
Undergraduate Researcher | 2014-16
Visiting Researcher | 2017
Ph.D. student, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan | 2017-present
Joseph Szabo
REU Student | Summer 2015
Ph.D. student, Physics, The Ohio State University | 2016-present
Saaj Chattopadhyay
Undergraduate Researcher | 2016-19
Ph.D student, Applied Physics, University of Michigan | 2019-present
Tayler Hebner
REU Student | Summer 2016
Ph.D. student, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder | 2019-present
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Arthur McCray
REU Student | Summers 2016 & 2017
Ph.D. student, Applied Physics, Northwestern University | 2018-present
Emily Waite
Undergraduate Researcher | 2017-18
Ph.D. student, Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 2020-present
Jacob Waelder
REU Student | Summer 2017
Ph.D. student, Applied Physics, University of Michigan | 2019-present
Kevin Kowalski
Undergraduate Researcher | 2017-18
Matthew Danbury
Undergraduate Researcher | 2017-18
Engineering Physics, Cornell University
Oscar Jaramillo
REU Student | Summer 2018
Ph.D. student, Applied Physics, Cornell University | 2019-present
Qijia Chen
Undergraduate Researcher | Summer 2018
William Xu
Undergraduate Researcher | Fall 2019 – Spring 2021
Arnav Agrawal
Undergraduate Researcher | Spring 2021
Erin Fleck
Undergraduate Researcher | 2018-22
NSF Graduate Research Fellow | 2022
Ph.D. student, Applied Physics, Stanford University | 2022-present
Ray Chang
Undergraduate Researcher | 2019-22
Ph.D. student, Physics, Princeton | 2022-present
Sunny Wong
Undergraduate Researcher | 2020-22
McNair Scholar
Ph.D. student, MSE, UIUC | 2022-present
Greg Powers
Undergraduate Researcher | 2021-22
Engineering Physics, Cornell University
Gloria Davidova
Undergraduate Researcher | 2021-22
Engineering Physics, Cornell University
Sara Irvine
REU Student | Summer 2021
Ph.D. student, Applied Physics, Stanford University | 2022-present
Lanette Espinosa
REU Student | Summer 2021
Hanna Porter
REU Student | Summer 2021
Beatriz Avila-Rimer
REU Student | Summer 2021
Kevin Hernandez
REU Student | Summer 2022