Principal Investigators - Group Leader
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Margaret
Murnane
Dr. Margaret Murnane is a Fellow at JILA and a member of the Department of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado. She received her B.S and M.S. degrees from University College Cork, Ireland, and her Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989, and joined the faculty of physics at Washington State University in 1990....
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Henry
Kapteyn
Dr. Henry C. Kapteyn has been a Professor at the Department of Physics and a Fellow of JILA, at the University of Colorado since 1999. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at the University of Michigan, and an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Physics at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. in...
Principal Investigators - Research Professor
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Daniel
Adams
Dr. Daniel Adams received his PhD from the Colorado School of Mines in 2010 working with Dr. Charles Durfee III, specializing in ultrafast spatio-temporal dynamics. His interests range from perturbative nonlinear optics and high harmonic generation to phase retrieval with application to coherent diffraction imaging. Future work will include extension of coherent diffraction imaging to three-...
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Begoña
Abad Mayor
Begoña joined Kapteyn-Murnane group as a Research Associate in September 2016. She obtained her BSc degree in Physics and MSc Degree in Applied Physics with major orientation in nanomaterials in 2011 from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). She joined the Thermoelectric Materials group at Instituto de Microelectrónica de Madrid belonging to Spanish National Research Council (...
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Amitava
Adak
Amitava grew up at a rural area in the eastern part of India. He earned his BSc degree in Physics from Jadavpur University, India in 2009. After that he completed his MSc in Physics and PhD in Ultrafast Dynamics in High Intensity Femtosecond Laser-Plasma Interaction from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India in 2015. He joined the KM group in March...
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Seth
Cousin
Seth graduated from the Open University in London, U.K. with a BSc Honours in Physics. He went on to complete a MSc in photonics at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain. He completed his PhD at ICFO also in Barcelona, Spain focusing on ultrafast laser development and high harmonic generation for the production of attosecond x-ray pulses.
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Michael
Gerrity
Michael graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 with a B.S. in Physics where he worked in Todd Ditmire's group on the Texas Petawatt laser. He joined the KM group in January of 2008 and works on scaling high harmonic sources to higher photon energies. In his free time he spends a lot of time in the mountains around Boulder.
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Chen-Ting
Liao
Ting grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. He received his B.S. in atmospheric and space sciences, and his M.S. degree in physics at the National Central University in Taiwan. While there, he studied plasma physics. After working in industries for a while, he moved to the University of Arizona in 2010 to pursue his Ph.D. degree in the College of Optical Sciences. In Arizona, he worked with Prof. Arvinder...
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William
Peters
Bill grew up in Colorado Springs, CO and has not strayed too far from home, moving all the way to Boulder to graduate with a BA in biochemistry in 2004. He then moved to CU-Denver to pursue an MS (awarded in 2008) in organic chemistry under Douglas Dyckes. In the Dyckes group he worked on the synthesis of a novel biomimetic bis-amino acid and grew accustomed to smelly solvents. Before...
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Xun
Shi
Xun grew up in Anhui, China. He graduated from Wuhan University in 2010 with a B.S. in physics. He then moved to the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences to pursue a Ph.D. with Prof. Hong Ding. His Ph.D. thesis is about angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) study of the Fe-based superconductors. Xun joined the Kapteyn-Murnane group as a research associate in February...
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Zhensheng
Tao
Zhensheng joined Kapteyn-Murnane group as a research associate in August, 2014. He got his BA and MS degrees in Physics from Fudan University (Shanghai, China) in 2008. Then, he moved to Michigan State University to pursue his Ph. D degree, and was awarded in 2014. At MSU, he worked with Dr. Chong-yu Ruan on the ultrafast electron diffraction, which enables the studies on the materials’...
Graduate Students
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Charlie
Bevis
Charlie was not born, but very much bred in Boulder, Colorado. He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder for his undergraduate studies where he worked with Prof. Steve Cundiff, studying nonlinear interactions between matter and ultrashort laser pulses. In 2011, Charlie graduated at the top of his class, summa cum laude, with distinction with a BA in physics and a minor in mathematics....
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Adam
Blonsky
Adam grew up in Wausau, Wisconsin and earned his Bachelors in Physics, Math, and Astrophysics at the University of Wisconsin Madison in the spring of 2015. While there he did biomaterials research with Pupa Gilbert on nacre and other hard biominerals. In the fall of 2015 he started the Ph.D. program at CU Boulder in Physics. The following summer he joined the KM group and now focuses on...
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Nathan
Brooks
Nathan grew up just a few miles from Boulder in Superior, Colorado. He attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, graduating summa cum laude in 2016 with a B.S. in Physics and minor in Computer Science. As an undergraduate, he worked as a software engineer for the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory as part of the OSIRIS-REx NASA mission, and researched atomic polarizabilities via atom...
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David
Couch
David grew up near Nashville, TN and attended Rice University in Houston, TX, graduating with a B.S. in chemical physics and a B.A. in psychology. As an undergraduate, he worked on fluorescence of molecules in order to study cold chemical reactions. David joined the KM group as a graduate student in July, 2013. His hobbies include hiking, skiing, drumming, and reading fantasy novels.
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Kevin
Dorney
Kevin Dorney grew up in Enon, Ohio, a small rural town outside of the city of Dayton. Originally attracted to biological, “squishy” things, he pursued undergraduate studies at Wright State University (WSU), earning bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Chemistry in 2012. Shortly after graduating, he found himself more attracted to the physical side of science, and continued his education by...
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Jennifer
Ellis
Jennifer grew up in Austin, TX. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in both physics and astronomy. Her undergraduate research was primarily in astronomy, studying white dwarf stars. After realizing she loved the more hands on aspects of experimental research she decided to pursue a PhD in physics, and joined the KM group in the summer of 2012. When not in the lab...
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Yuka
Esashi
Yuka is from Kyoto, Japan. She received her B.A. in Physics from Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 2017. Her undergraduate thesis focused on the characterization and generation of non-diffracting beams. She started her Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado Boulder and joined the Kapteyn-Murnane group in fall of 2017, where she is currently working in the imaging team. When not in the...
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Travis
Frazer
Travis grew up in Big Creek, a small mountain town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. He pursued undergraduate studies at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, graduating summa cum laude in 2013 with a B.S. in physics, and a minor in math. While at Cal Poly, Travis performed experimental research on novel optical dipole traps for quantum computation applications, and theoretical research on...
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Ben
Galloway
Ben attended the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) in Golden, CO, where he obtained his B.S. in Engineering Physics with summa cum laude honors (2011). He then conducted graduate research with Chip Durfee at CSM, focusing on the measurement of ultrafast dynamics in semiconductors using a transient grating apparatus, which earned him a M.S. in Applied Physics (2012). He joined the KM group at CU...
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Christian
Gentry
Christian attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ where he received a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics with magna cum laude honors. During his undergraduate years, he worked with Weigang Wang on nanosphere lithography for use in studying magnetic materials. He also spent some time working on graphene as well as soft-condensed matter simulations. He began his PhD program at the...
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Guan
Gui
Guan comes from Hefei, China and received his B.S. in physics from Peking University in 2016. During his undergraduate time, he worked on design and fabrication of Organic LED device. When he found more interest in ultrafast laser experiment, he joined the KM group in the summer of 2016. Now he is working in the molecule lab. Guan likes many kinds of indoor and outdoor sports, including...
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Jorge
Hernandez Charpak
Jorge Nicolas Received a B.S. in Physics and in Computer Engineering from Universidad de los Andes, in Bogota, Colombia. He also received a Minor in Visual Computing and one in Chinese Language and Culture, as he spent a year as a visiting student at Beijing University (2007-2008). During the summer of 2009 he had the opportunity, founded by an NSF grant, to be an...
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Peter
Johnsen
Peter grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in physics from Princeton University. He was a political studies fellow at the Hudson Institute and wrote his undergraduate thesis on quantum nonlinear optics in superconducting circuits with Professor Andrew Houck. After graduating, Peter joined a small startup as a data scientist, but left to begin...
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Robert
Karl
Robert grew up in Redding, Connecticut. He then made his way to Rochester, New York to study at the Rochester Institute of Technology. While there, he studied the dynamics of silver crystals in electrochemical systems using X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy. In the spring of 2014, he graduated summa cum laude honors with a B.S. in Physics with minors in Mathematics, Optical Science, and...
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Johua
Knobloch
Joshua spent his childhood living and working on a family farm in rural Illinois. In the fall of 2010, he enrolled at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana; in addition to classes, he worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant for the beginning physics courses, and he designed and constructed a project which utilized seismic diffraction to monitor fluid invasion in fracture apertures...
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Quynh
Nguyen
Quynh graduated magna cum laude from Temple University in 2014 with a B.S. in Chemistry. As an undergraduate, she studied the excited state dynamics of DNA fluorescent base analogues using ab initio methods. Post-graduation, she worked on optical lattices and theoretical modeling of thin lubricant films at the Institute for Molecular Science in Japan and Argonne National Lab. She started...
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Christina
Porter
Christina is from Portland Oregon and completed her B.A. degree in Physics at Reed College in 2013. She is interested in novel imaging techniques, especially with applications in biology and chemistry. She received an M.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in 2014, where her research was on mid-infrared microscopy capable of sub-wavelength resolution using a super-...
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Phoebe
Tengdin
Phoebe received her B.A. in physics from Mount Holyoke College in 2013. During her undergraduate years she worked on various research projects including magnetospheric dynamics, nanowire fabrication, and organic photovoltaics. In the fall of 2013, she started her Ph.D. in Optics in the Electrical Engineering department at CU. During her first few years at CU she worked with Dana Anderson's...
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Bin
Wang
Bin Wang grew up in Yellow Mountain in China. He pursued undergraduate studies at University of Science and Technology of China. While there, he performed theoretical research on spin transportation in Double-Quantum-Dot systems. After graduating in 2016 with a B.S. in physics with honors, he joined the KM group in the fall of 2016 to work on nanoimaging. Outside of science, Bin enjoys reading...
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Wenjing
You
Wenjing grew up in Yangzhou, China and graduated with B.S. in Physics at Nanjing University in 2015. She joined the KM group in the summer of 2016. She is now focusing her research on photoemission spectroscopy. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and hiking.
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Yingchao
Zhang
Yingchao grew up in Qingdao, China. He went to Xian Jiaotong University and received Bachelor of Science degree there in 2016. During his undergraduate study, he studied low dimensional materials using optical techniques such as near field optical microscope. Now, he works on angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and tries to reveal the novel properties of quantum materials....
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Dmitriy
Zusin
Dmitriy received his B.S. in Physics from the Belarusian State University in Minsk, Belarus in 2009. His undergraduate thesis focused on Bessel beam propagation in anisotropic crystals. Upon graduation and through the summer of 2012, Dmitriy worked at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, where he was studying diode-pumped continuous-wave (CW) Raman lasers. In the fall of 2010 and the...
Undergraduate Students
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Laura
Wooldridge
Laura grew up in Colorado Springs and decided to pursue a BS degree in physics as an outlet to learn more about the world. She spent her sophomore year as an undergraduate learning assistant for introductory physics courses where she developed a great appreciation for the art of teaching. Laura joined the KM group during her junior year, and plans to graduate Spring of 2017. Her hobbies...
Kapteyn-Murnane Group Alumni
Alphabetically by Surname
Alon
Bahabad
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physical Electronics, Tel-Aviv University
Franklin
Dollar
Current Affiliation:
Asst. Professor, University of California, Irvine, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Emily
Gibson
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor - Bioengineering, University of Colorado at Denver
Ariel
Libertun
Current Affiliation:
Principal at BD4STEM, ECEE - University of Colorado Boulder
Robynne
Lock
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University - Commerce
Lino
Misoguti
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Institute of Physics of Sao Carlos, Brazil
Predrag
Ranitovic
Current Affiliation:
Researcher - Physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Matt
Seaberg
Current Affiliation:
Postdoc at CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Vandana
Sharma
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor in Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad
Mark
Siemens
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Physics, University of Denver
Isabell
Thomann
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
