Group Members

Graduate students

• 2001
  • John Wambaugh (Duke University)
    Ratchet induced segregation of non-spherical grains.
    
  • Sofian Teber (University of Paris)
    Monte Carlo simulation of charged solitons.
    
  • Dylan Manna (University of Michigan)
    Two-species colloids in circular traps.
    

• 2003
  • Michael Mikulis (University of California Davis)
    Colloidal molecules and floating solids
    

• 2005
  • Jing-Xian Lin (University of California Riverside)
    Heterogeneities and topological defects in two-dimensional pinned liquids
    

• 2005-2007
  Andras Libal Notre Dame; Ph.D Physics, 2007, Currently Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Babes-Bolyai University
  Colloidal physics
  

• Summer 2012
  • Danielle McDermott (Notre Dame)
    Ordering on incommensurate surfaces
    
  • Jeff Amelang (Caltech)
    Ordering on incommensurate surfaces
    
  • Dipanjan Ray (Notre Dame)
    Conformal crystals
    

• Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2014
  • Dipanjan Ray (Notre Dame)
    Conformal crystals, Ph.D Physics Notre Dame March 2014
    
  • Danielle McDermott
    Ordering on incommensurate surfaces, Ph.D Physics Notre Dame March 2014, Assistant Professor of Physics Pacific University, now staff member at Los Alamos,
    

• Summer 2016
  • Xiaoyu Ma (Notre Dame)
    Skyrmion Ratchets
    
  • Hong Nguyen (University of South Florida, Ph.D Physics 2018, postdoc University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
    Clogging Transitions
    
  • Csanad Sandor (Babes-Bolyai University)
    Active Matter
    

• May-Dec 2016
  • Sebastian Diaz (Univesity of California San Diego, Ph.D Physics 2017, postdoc University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
    Skyrmion Dynamics
    

• Summer 2017
  • Xiaoyu Ma (Notre Dame)
    Vortex Manipulation
    
  • Peter Hubba (Babes-Bolyai University)
    Clogging and Jamming Transitions
    
  • Jushua Thibault (West Virginia University)
    Active Matter
    

• Summer 2018
  • Bart Brown (Virginia Tech, Ph.D Physics 2019, Lockheed Martin)
    Reversible to Irreversible Transition in Periodically Driven Skyrmion Systems
    
  • Peter Hubba (Babes-Bolyai University)
    Clogging and Jamming Transitions
    

• Summer 2019
  • Xiaoyu Ma (Notre Dame, Ph.D Physics 2020, Azure Security Group at Microsoft)
    Controlled Vortex Manipulation and Pinning for Braiding Majorana Fermions
    

• June 2019 to April 2020, Remote 2020-2023
  • Nicolas Vizarim (Departamento de Fısica, Faculdade de Ciencias, Unesp-Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil ) Ph.D Aug 2023
    Skyrmion dynmics in nanostructures
    
  • July 2023 to Oct 2023
    • Biborka Adorjani (Babes-Bolyai University)
      Active Matter
      

    Postdocs

    • Jeffrey Drocco (Ph.D Princeton) Directors Fellow 2011-2013, Currently Scientit at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
      Active matter
      
    • Lena Lopatina (Ph.D Kent State), 2011-2014
      Currently staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory Granular media and jamming
      
    • Caizhi Zhou (Ph.D Iowa State), joint with Irene Beyerlein 2010-2012, Currently Professor of Mechanical Enineering University of South Carolina
      Dislocation dynamics
      
    • Ido Regev (Ph.D The Weizmann Institute of Science), joint with Torub Lookman 2010-2013, Postdoc at Harvard University, 2013-2016, Currently Faculty at Ben-Gurion University of the Negrev, Institute for Desert Research
      Nonequilibrium Systems
      
    • Ayhan Duzgun (Ph.D Kent State), joint with Cristiano Nisoli 2020-2021
      Currently staff member at Inte Skyrmions in liquid crystals
      
    • Cody Schimming Cody Schimming (Ph.D University of Minnesota),2022-Present
      postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory Active matter
      

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