University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Current group members, alumni, and the students who built the lab.
Current team
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering. B.S. Physics, UC Santa Cruz; M.S. and Ph.D. Physics, UC Davis; NRC postdoctoral fellow and research physicist at the NIST Center for Neutron Research before joining UTK in 2018. Promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2024.
Ph.D. Student, Materials Science
Charlotte joined the lab in 2023 after completing undergraduate work in the UTK Materials Science and Engineering department.
Alumni
M.S. Materials Science, 2026
Graduated in May 2026 and is now working at Lam Research.
Former group member
Graduated and is now a nuclear safety officer at Y-12.
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2025
Former undergraduate researcher; graduated in May 2025 and is now working at Trinity Consultants.
Ph.D. Physics, 2018–2023
Former graduate researcher; joined First Solar, then Intel in June 2024.
Ph.D. Materials Science, 2019–2024
Former Chancellor’s Fellow and DOE-SCGSR Fellow; currently working at AFRL and the defense startup ARCTOS.
Ph.D. Materials Science, 2018–2023
Former graduate researcher; currently at Western Digital.
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2021–2022
Worked on electrodeposited high-entropy alloy nanostructures for high-temperature applications; currently at Northrop Grumman.
Undergraduate Researcher, 2019–2021
Former undergraduate researcher and NIST SURF participant; Ph.D. program at Purdue University.
Undergraduate Researcher, 2019–2021
Former undergraduate researcher in computer science; graduate work at Purdue University.
Undergraduate Researcher, 2019
Helped build vacuum systems for thin-film deposition; Ph.D. program at UTK.
Undergraduate Researcher, 2019
Built an Arduino-controlled thermoelectric tester for high-throughput investigations.
Undergraduate Researcher, 2021
Joined after MSE 410 and worked with the lab before graduating in MSE.