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Halleh Balch
Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering
BioHalleh B. Balch is an experimental physicist, NSF Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow, and HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow at Stanford University. Her research focuses on developing novel nanophotonic sensors for in situ microscopy and spectroscopy onboard autonomous underwater vehicles to study marine and freshwater environments and their impact on climate and human health. Halleh received her PhD in Physics from the University of California Berkeley and her undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College in physics and literature.
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Gerwin Dijk
Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering
BioBioelectronics, neurostimulation, biosensors, conducting polymers, microfabrication.
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Alexander Giovannitti
Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am a material chemist with strong expertise in synthesizing high-performing polymeric organic semiconductors for electrochemical devices. My research mission is to design novel polymers to pave the way for sustainable electrocatalysts for energy/chemical conversation technologies. I thrive in collaborative, diverse, and open-minded research atmospheres, working along with colleagues in interdisciplinary settings to tackle global challenges.
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Tom Hopper
Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering
BioTom seeks to fast track the development of new optoelectronic materials and devices by elucidating their properties at the most fundamental level. During his doctoral research and subsequent EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship at Imperial College London, Tom played a pioneering role in the design and construction of femtosecond optical control experiments, and applied them to pinpoint efficiency-limiting processes in emerging photovoltaic systems based on organic, hybrid and nanoscale materials.
As a TomKat Postdoctoral Fellow in Sustainable Energy in the Lindenberg Group, Tom will deploy state-of-the-art ultrafast optical and structural probes at Stanford and SLAC to visualize and manipulate energy transport in novel materials systems made from low-dimensional semiconductors. -
Dakota McCoy
Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering
BioDakota "Cody" McCoy is a Stanford Science Fellow (also supported by the NSF PRFB) who recently completed her PhD in Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Previously, she attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar to study environmental policy. Combining applied physics with biological methods, she studies the functions and origins of optical adaptations in nature. For example, her work on “super black” birds and spiders has driven novel solar technology research, inspired recent studies of light manipulation in several animals, and will soon appear in a forthcoming United Nations booklet on bioinspiration. She also researches the unusual health risks of pregnancy for humans. Cody hails from Pittsburgh, greatest city in the USA, where she grew up with four siblings and four dogs.
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Leland Nordin
Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering
BioLeland is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Professor Kunal Mukherjee's group and the Geballe Lab for Advanced Materials. His research involves investigating the potential for utilizing IV-VI alloys as plasmonic materials in the mid-infrared, and subsequently demonstrating plasmonic IV-VI optoelectronic structures and devices for light emission, detection, and modulation. Prior to his Stanford appointment, Leland was a graduate student in Professor Dan Wasserman's group at The University of Texas at Austin. In Professor Wasserman's group Leland worked on the design, growth, fabrication, and characterization of state-of-the-art III-V ultra-thin plasmonic infrared detectors and emitters.
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Zihao Ou
Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering
BioMy research interests have been focusing on how individual building blocks come together resulting in complex functions which are hard to predict, if possible, from the individual identities. Similar to a digital screen displaying a movie, the complicated pattern and story can hardly be interpreted from the dynamic traces of a single pixel. Specifically, I have been studying the general topic of self-assembly and non-equilibrium behaviors in soft matter systems, using both experimental and simulation tools.
I obtained my B.S. degree in physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2015. In my undergraduate research, I tried to use computer simulation to study multiple systems in Prof. Zhonghuai Hou’s group, such as the Viscek model for self-propelled particles. In 2014, I visited Oxford University to study the phase behaviors of active nematics using Lattice-Boltzmann method in Prof. Julia M. Yeomans' group. In 2020, I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) under the supervision of Prof. Qian Chen. During my Ph.D. research, we illustrated the nonclassical crystallization pathway of nanoparticles (Nat. Mater., 19, 450–455, 2020) and supracrystal growth kinetics (Nat. Commun., 11, 4555, 2020) using liquid-phase TEM. I also studied other nonequilibrium behaviors in novel colloidal systems, such as shape transformation of metal-organic framework crystals during chemical etching (ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 10, 48, 40990–40995, 2018), application of ferromagnetic colloids in inductor design (Science Adv., 6, 3, eaay4508, 2020) and electron transport in redox-active colloids.
In August 2020, I joined Prof. Guosong Hong’s group at the materials science and engineering department at Stanford University to develop novel nanomaterials that can interact with neurons at the subcellular level. Armed with the knowledge of nanotechnology and theoretical modeling, we are extending the tools that can be used to investigate the challenging questions in neuroscience. -
Feng Pan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering
BioFeng Pan is a postdoctoral scholar with Prof. Jennifer A. Dionne in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin Madison, advised by Prof. Randall H. Goldsmith, and M.S. in Physical Chemistry at Texas A&M University, advised by Prof. Simon W. North, and B.S. in Chemistry at Jilin University (China). His research expertise spans several aspects, including plasmonics, nanophotonics, and single-particle microresonator microscopy and spectroscopy, planar laser-induced fluorescence for molecular tagging velocimetry and thermometry in gaseous flows.
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Samya Sen
Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSamya's research interests are primarily soft materials and complex fluids. He uses experimental techniques of fundamental rheology in conjunction with non-Newtonian fluid mechanics to model, characterize, design, and understand soft material behavior. The applications of his research range from yield-stress fluid design in consumer products, industrial materials, and wildfire suppression. His current research projects as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Appel is in design and rheological characterization of novel hydrogels for biomedical applications, including improved drug delivery.
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Yifan Wang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsClassification for the flow defects in metallic glass materials;
Molecular Dynamics Simulation for the Nano-indentation of Al-Mg alloy;
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Rong Xu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering
BioDr. Rong Xu is a postdoc with professor Yi Cui in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University.
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Xin Xu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Xu's research focuses on a fundamental understanding of charge transport and the related electro-chemo-mechanical mechanism in mixed electronic and ionic conductors via methods of operando local multimodal characterization. This encompasses a broad class of systems in the fields such as solid oxide fuel cells, solid state batteries and memristors, with research areas including charge transport theory, interface characterization, and novel device fabrication.
