People

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. 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

Dr. Richard Spieker

Room 252, Physics and Nanotechnology Building

Email: [email protected]

Ph.D. Physics, 2025, University of Minnesota
B.S. Physics and Math 2017, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Graduate Students

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

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. Physics 2018, University of Science and Technology of China

Mengyao Zhang

Room , Physics and Nanotechnology Building

Email: [email protected]

B.S. Physics 2025, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Undergraduate Researchers

Sarah Anderson

Major: Physics

Expected graduation: May 2026

Ethan Behun

Major: Physics

Expected graduation: May 2029

Aina Lopez Benet

Major: Physics

Expected graduation: May 2026

Stuti Kamath

Major: Mathematics

Expected graduation: May 2027

Lizzie Kerr

Major: Physics and Aerospace Engineering

Expected graduation: May 2029

Rebecca Meyer

Major: Physics

Expected graduation: May 2027

Caleb Samuel 

Major: Physics and Mathematics

Expected graduation: May 2028

Derek Wignall

Major: Physics and Mathematics

Expected graduation: May 2026

Hugo Wright-Lindner

Major: Astrophysics

Expected graduation: May 2027

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

Ruža Domić

Physics Department, University of Zagreb, Bijenička Cesta 32, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate Study of Physics (Expected graduation year: 2025), University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, 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. Xing He

Postdoctoral Researcher
→Now at the University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Wojciech Tabis

Postdoctoral Researcher
→ Now at AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland

Former Graduate Students 

Dr. Zach Anderson

Graduate student
→ Postdoctoral Appointee at the Argonne National Lab

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

James Payne

Graduate student

Dr. Yang Tang

Graduate Student
→ Morgan Stanley, New York

Dr. Richard Spieker

Graduate student
→ Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota

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

Siddharth Gorregattu

Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sylvia Griffitt

Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at Cornell University

Nikhil Gupta

Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at University of California Berkeley

Nicholas Horton

Undergraduate

Brian Krohnke

Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at University of Minnesota

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

Blake Wendland

Undergraduate
→ Graduate school at Stanford University

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