Members
Principal Investigator
(713) 348-5171
Office: Brockman Hall 308
Condensed Matter Theory, Electronic and Optical Properties of Nanoparticles, Electron Transfer and Transport in Nanostructures, Nanooptics, Nanophotonics, Plasmonics.
Research Scientists
(713) 348-2506
Office: Brockman Hall 312
Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) Theory, Plasmon Hybridization Theory.
(713) 348-2506
Office: Brockman Hall 312
Condensed Matter Physics: Theory.
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Graduate Students
Former Members
Gopal Narmada Naidu
Anvy Kuriakose
Anvy is continuing her PhD Thesis in the Membrane Auditory Bioengineering Group at Rice University headed by Dr. Robert Raphael
Yage Zhou
now works at Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Burak Gerislioglu
Patent Agent at Chamberlain Hrdlicka
Minhan Lou
now a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Utah
Ming Zhang
Now an AI and ML researcher at Meta
Huatian Hu
now a research associate at Wuhan University
Jian Yang
an algorithm engineer at trip.com group
Arash Ahmadivand
now a postdoctoral research associate at Rice University
Luca Bursi
now a postdoctoral research associate at the University of North Texas, TX, US
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2017-2019)
Runmin Zhang
now a quantitative analyst at Squarepoint
PhD thesis (2018) - A First Principles Approach to Understand Plasmonic Phenomena in Physical Systems
Dr. Alessandro Alabastri
now a visiting professor at Rice University
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2015-2018)
Website: http://alabastri.rice.edu
Mattin Urbieta Galarraga
now a PhD candidate at University of the Basque Country.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattin-urbieta-galarraga-487065113/
Hangqi Zhao
now a data scientist at Visa Inc.
PhD thesis (2017) - Hot Carrier Generation in Nanostructures for Efficient Photocatalysis and Photodetection
Master thesis (2015) - A Comparison of Plasmon-induced and Photoexcited Hot Carriers in Metallic Nanostructures
Andrea Schirato
now an undergraduate student at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-schirato-289881119/
Xiao Yang
now a quantitative analyst at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
PhD thesis (2017) - Extraordinary Light-Induced Local Field, Angular Momentum and Force near Metallic Nanoparticles
Yue Zhang
now a research engineer at JD.com.
PhD thesis (2017) - Interacting Surface Plasmon with Electron Beam and Acoustic Vibration
Master thesis (2015) - Tunable Charge Transfer Plasmon
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuezhang89/
Yao Cui
now a data scientist at KUKA.
PhD thesis (2016) - Molecular Plasmonics
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaocui11
Jun Liu
now a research scientist at Xtal Inc.
PhD thesis (2016) - Dynamics of Plasmon-Induced Hot Carriers in Metallic Nanoparticles
Dr. Hui Zhang
now a seismic imaging analyst at CGG.
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2014-2016)
Thawda Aung
now a quantitative analyst at Invesco.
Dr. Alejandro Manjavacas
now an assistant professor at UNM.
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2013-2015)
Vikram Kulkarni
now a research staff member in cyber security at Institute for Defense Analyses.
PhD thesis (2015) - A First Principles Approach to Describing Novel Plasmonic Phenomena.
Yang Cao
now a geophysicist at CGG.
PhD thesis (2015) - Optical properties of core-shell nanoparticles, Nanoring-based structures, and periodic nanostructures, EELS.
Lifei Liu
now a geophysicist at Shell.
PhD thesis (2014) - Plasmonic properties of Aluminium Nanostructures.
Yumin Wang
now research scientist at Xtal Inc.
PhD thesis (2014) - Plasmon Resonances in Metallic Nanostructures for Photodection and Signal Modulation.
Dr. Montacer Dridi
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2014)
Dr. Nicolas Large
now an assistant professor at UTSA.
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2012-2014)
website: http://physics.utsa.edu/nlarge
Dr. Ke Zhao
now Processing Geophysicist at Schlumberger
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2012-2013)
Yurong Zhen
now Seismic Imager at CGG Veritas
PhD thesis (2013) - Plasmonic properties and applications of metallic nanostructures.
MS thesis (2011) - Optical Properties of Pd Nano-particles with Monomer and Dimer Cavities.
Heidar Sobhani Khakestar
now Trainer at CGG Veritas
PhD thesis (2012) - Plasmonics Manipulation of Light for Sensing and Photovoltaic Applications.
MS thesis (2009) - Subradiant, superradiant and Fano resonances in dimer and ring/disk nanocavities.
Yang Li
now at CGG Veritas
PhD thesis (2012) - Manipulation of energy propagation, redirection, and dissipation by tunable plasmonic nanostructures.
MS thesis (2011) - Angle- and spectral-dependent light scattering from plasmonic nanocups.
Kui Bao
now Processing Geophysicist at Shell
PhD thesis (2012) - Plasmon hybridization in real metals.
MS thesis (2009) - Fano resonances in plasmonic nanoparticle aggregates.
Jorge Zuloaga
now Risk Manager for an insurance company, Mexico
PhD thesis (2011) - Quantum plasmonics: A first-principles investigation of metallic nanostructures and their optical properties.
MS thesis (2009) - Quantum description of the plasmon resonances of a nanoparticle dimer.
Tamer A. Ali
now Assistant Professor at Cairo University, Egypt
PhD thesis (2010) - Optical and plasmonic properties of metallic tip/surface junctions.
Tae-Ho Park
now Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
PhD thesis (2009) - Plasmonic properties of metallic nanostructures.
MS thesis (2005) - Numerical renormalization group studies of the Anderson-Holstein model.
Feng Hao
now Advance Research Geophysicist at TGS
PhD thesis (2009) - Plasmon hybridization in complex nanostructures.
MS thesis (2006) - Plasmonic coupling between a metallic nanosphere and a thin metallic wire.
Yanpeng Wu
now Associate at KCG Holdings Inc.
PhD thesis (2009) - Plasmonic properties of metallic nanostructures with reduced symmetry.
MS thesis (2005) - Plasmon hybridization in nonconcentric nanoshells.
Fei Le
now Scientist at Baker Hughes Inc.
PhD thesis (2008) - Plasmonic properties of nanoparticle-film systems and periodic nanoparticle arrays.
MS thesis (2005) - Plasmons in the metallic nanoparticle-film system as a tunable impurity problem.
Ali I. Goker
now Associate Professor at Sheikh Edebali Bilecik University, Turkey
PhD thesis (2007) - Kondo effect in quantum dots: A non-crossing approximation study.
MS thesis (2005) - Optical properties of a spherical 2D electron gas in the presence of a uniform magnetic field.
Daniel W. Brandl
now Automation Engineer at NNE Pharmaplan, Morrisville, NC
PhD thesis (2007) - Plasmon hybridization in generalized metallic nanostructures.
MS thesis (2005) - Plasmon hybridization in nanoshell dimers.
Chris Oubre
now at Exxon Mobil Corporation
PhD thesis (2005) - Finite-Difference Time-Domain studies of the optical properties of metallodielectric nanostructures.
MS thesis (2002) - Interaction of xenon Rydberg atoms with a metal surface in an electric field.
Emil Prodan
now Associate Professor at Department of Physics, Yeshiva University
PhD thesis (2003) - Theoretical investigation of the electronic structure and optical properties of metallic nanoshells.
John A. Wolfgang
now Instructor at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
PhD thesis (2000) - Electron dynamics and impurity scattering on gold nanoshell surfaces.
MS thesis (2000) - Inelastic ion scattering from semiconductor surfaces.
Hilary C. Akpati
now Therapeutic Radiologic Physicist
PhD thesis (1997) - A theoretical study of the effects of an external electric field on adsorbate-surface systems.
MA thesis (1996) - A theoretical study of cluster reactivity and the effects of electric field on atom-surface interaction.
Jason P. Modisette
now at Pipeline Simulation Interest Group, ATMOS International Ltd
PhD thesis (1997) - Wavelets in electronic structure calculations.
MA thesis (1995) - A theoretical study of CN on alkalihalide and alkali metal surfaces using density functional theory.
