- Principal Investigator
- Admin-istrator
- Postdoctoral Researchers
- Graduate Students
- Undergraduate Researchers
- Frequent Visitors
- Former Members
Principal Investigator
Professor Martin Greven
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Office: Room 218, Physics and Nanotechnology Building
Phone: +1 612-624-7542 Email: [email protected]
Academic History
- Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota, 2018-Present
- Director, Center for Quantum Materials, University of Minnesota, 2016-Present
- Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, 2011-Present
- Associate Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, 2009-2011
- Sabbatical leave at the University of Paris (Orsay), LLB (CEA-Saclay) and ESPCI (Paris), France, 2006-2007
- Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Photon Science, Stanford University, 1998-2009
- Post-doctoral Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995-1997
- Ph.D. 1995, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Vordiplom 1988, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Awards and Honors
- Distinguished McKnight University Professorship, University of Minnesota, 2018
- Fellow, Neutron Scattering Society of America, 2018
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2015
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 2007
- Hellman Family Faculty Fund Award, 2003
- NSF CAREER Award, 2000-2004
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1999-2001
Administrator
Shelley Frankel
Room 212, Physics and Nanotechnology Building
Phone: (612) 301-1816
Email: [email protected]
Postdocs
Dr. Xing He
Room 246, Physics and Nanotechnology Building
Email: [email protected]
Ph.D. Materials Science, 2022, Duke University
B. E., 2016, Tsinghua University, China
Dr. Sudarshan Sharma
Room 246, Physics and Nanotechnology Building
Email: [email protected]
Ph.D. Physics, 2023, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
BS-MS, 2018, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India
Graduate Students
Zach Anderson
Room 252, Physics and Nanotechnology Building
Email: [email protected]
B.A. Physics, 2014, Cornell University
Samuel Bayliff
Room 252, Physics and Nanotechnology Building
Email: [email protected]
B.S. Physics and Chemistry, 2020, University of Oklahoma.
Issam Khayr
Room 252, Physics and Nanotechnology Building
Email: [email protected]
B.A. Physics, 2019, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Solomon Michalak
Room 246, Physics and Nanotechnology Building
Email: [email protected]
B.S. Physics, 2022, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James Payne
Room 252, Physics and Nanotechnology Building
Email: [email protected]
B.S. Physics, 2021, University of North Florida
Richard Spieker
Room 252, Physics and Nanotechnology Building
Email: [email protected]
B.S. Physics and Math 2017, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Chiou Yang Tan
Room 252, Physics and Nanotechnology Building
Email: [email protected]
B.S. Physics and Math 2018, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Dayu Zhai
Room 252, Physics and Nanotechnology Building
Email: [email protected]
B.S. Applied Physics 2018, University of Science and Technology of China
Undergraduate Researchers
Sarah Anderson
Major: Physics
Expected graduation: May 2026
Abdulrahman Baobaid
Major: Physics
Expected graduation: May 2027
Aina Lopez Benet
Major: Physics
Expected graduation: May 2026
Siddharth Gorregattu
Major: Physics
Expected graduation: May 2025
Peter Hofhansel
Major:
Expected graduation:
Stuti Kamath
Major: Mathematics
Expected graduation: May 2027
Brian Krohnke
Major: Physics
Expected graduation: May 2024
Blake Wendland
Major: Physics
Expected graduation: May 2024
Derek Wignall
Major: Physics and Mathematics
Expected graduation: May 2026
Frequent Visitors
Dr. Damjan Pelc
Physics Department, University of Zagreb, Trg Republike Hrvatske 14, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
Assistant Professor, 2020, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Postdoctoral researcher, 2017-2020, University of Minnesota
Ph.D. Solid State Physics, 2017, University of Zagreb, Croatia
M.S. Physics, 2011, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Ana Najev
Physics Department, University of Zagreb, Trg Republike Hrvatske 14, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
Master in Physics, 2017, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, Croatia
Noah Somun
Physics Department, University of Zagreb, Bijenička Cesta 32, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
Integrated Bachelor’s-Master’s Degree Program, 2018 - current, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, Croatia
Luka Rogic
Physics Department, University of Zagreb, Bijenička Cesta 32, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
Integrated Bachelor’s-Master’s Degree Program, 2018 - current, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, Croatia
Dr. Dinesh Kumar Shukla
Scientist-F at UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore, India
Former Postdocs
Dr. Neven Barišić
Postdoctoral Researcher
→Now at University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Dr. Tathamay Basu
Postdoctoral Researcher
→Now at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), India
Dr. Nikolaos Biniskos
Postdoctoral Researcher
→ Now at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Garching, Germany
Dr. Mun K. Chan
Postdoctoral researcher
→ Now at National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dr. Wojciech Tabis
Postdoctoral Researcher
→ Now at AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
Former Graduate Students
Dr. Sajna Hameed
Graduate student
→ Post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute
Joseph Joe
Graduate student
Dr. Yangmu Li
Graduate student
→ Post-doctoral researcher at Brookhaven National Lab
Dr. Yang Tang
Graduate Student
→ Morgan Stanley, New York
Dr. Biqiong Yu
Senior Data Scientist
→ Analog Devices
Former Undergrads
Rajendra Beekie
Undergraduate
→ Mathematics major
Nina Bielinski
Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jingnan Cai
Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at the University of Maryland
Chelsey Dorow
Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at the University of California, San Dego
Davis Everson-Rose
Undergraduate
Jacob Freyermuth
Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at Ohio State University
Ryan Frink
Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at Cornell University
Yang Ge
Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at Penn State University
Sylvia Griffitt
Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at Cornell University
Nikhil Gupta
Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at University of California Berkeley
Nicholas Horton
Undergraduate
Brian Krohnke
Undergraduate
Isaac Martin
Undergraduate
Sanjeev Mishra
Undergraduate
→ Music major
Kyosuke Mitsuishi
Undergraduate
→ Undergraduate at Columbia University
Vikram Nagarajan
Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at University of California, Berkeley
Yuka Nakato
Undergraduate
→ Undergraduate researcher in cosmology
Karl Olson
Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at Northwestern University
Curtis Peterson
Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at the University of Chicago
Lauren Schlenker
Undergraduate
→ Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics major
Liam Thompson
Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at the University of Minnesota
Mike Veit
Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at Stanford University
Zi Wang
Undergraduate
Madison Wieczorek
Undergraduate
Kevin Zhang
Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Jack Zwettler
Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Former Visitors
Iris Betz
Visiting high school student from Germany
→ Medical school in Germany
Benjamin Klebel
Visiting Graduate Student
→ Institute of Solid State Physics, Vienna University of Technology, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Yang Lu
Visiting Ph.D. student from Jilin University, China.
Vlad Sagalovskiy
Eastview High School, Apple Valley, MN
→ Undergraduate at the University of Minnesota
Dandan Xia
Visiting Ph.D. student from Jilin University, China
Dr. Guichuan Yu
Senior Research Associate
→ University of Minnesota Informatics Institute