Alumni

Post docs trained in the group who proceeded to become Principle Investigators on major USA proposals/centers of Office of Science (DOE) and NSF proposals include S.B. Zhang, Lin Wang Wang, Chris Wolveron, Laurent Bellaiche, Vidvuds Ozolins, Fernano Redoredo, Gus Hart, Paul Kent, and Stephan Lany.

25 of the post docs trained in the group became later professors in various universities.

Post doc trained in the group that were later hired into different positions at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) include: David Wood, S.H.Wei, Sverre Froyen, Sheng Bai Zhang, Lin Wang Wang, Chris Wolverton, Alberto Franceschetti, Kwiseon Kim, Stephan Lany, and Mayeul d’Avezac. Two have remained at NREL since.

Past and Present Postdoctoral/Sabbatical Scholars Advised by Alex Zunger

1	Ulf Lindefelt	Professor, Dept. of Physics, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden.
2	V. J. Singh	Professor, Dept. of Physics, Indian Inst. of Tech., Kanpur, India.
3	John E. Jaffe	Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Idaho.
4	Adalberto Fazzio	Professor, Dept. of Physics, San Paulo University, Brazil.
5	Marilia Caldas	Professor, Dept. of Physics, San Paulo University, Brazil.
6	Hiroshi Yoshida	Professor, Dept. of Physics, Osaka University, Japan.
7	J.L. Martins	Professor, Dept. of Physics, Inst. Superior Technico, Lisbon, Portugal.
8	David Wood	Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc, then Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Physics, Colo. School of Mines, Golden, CO.
9	G.P. Srivastava	Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of Exeter, U.K.
10	Jim Bernard	Staff Member, Dept. of Physics, Colo. School of Mines, Golden, CO.
11	Abdul Aziz Mbaye	Cultural Minister, the Republic of Senegal.
12	S.H. Wei	Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now Research Fellow at NREL.
13	Sverre Froyen	Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now Software Company, CO.
14	L.G. Ferreira	Professor, Dept. of Physics, Campinas University, Brazil.
15	Z.W. Lu	Staff Member, University of California, Davis, CA.
16	Robert G. Dandrea	Staff Scientist, David Sarnoff (previously RCA) Research Labs.
17	Rita Magri	Research Associate, Department of Physics, Univ. of Modena, Italy.
18	Sheng Bai Zhang	Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now Professor university Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
19	Roberto Osorio	Financial Business Computer Simulations, CA.
20	David Laks	Financial Business Computer Simulations (Wall Street), New York, NY.
21	Chin-Yu Yeh	Technical Staff Member, IBM Almaden, CA.
22	Lin Wang Wang	Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now Staff Member, Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.
23	Chris Wolverton	Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now Professor, Northwestern University
24	Alberto Francescetti	Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now retired.
25	Kurt Mader	Division Manager, ELCA Informatik, Zürich, Switzerland.
26	Laurent Bellaiche	Professor, Department of Physics, University of Arkansas.
27	Huaxiang Fu	Professor, Department of Physics, University of Arkansas.
28	Vidvuds Ozolins	Professor, Department of Materials Science UCLA
29	Jeonim Kim	Staff, Oak Ridge National Lab
30	Tomy Mattila	Technical Staff Member, VTT National Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland.
31	J. H. Cho	Professor, Dept. of Physics, Hanyang University, Korea
32	Andrew Williamson	Intellectual Property startup company
33	Fernando Reboredo	Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
34	Stephan Muller	Professor, TUHH Technische Universitat Hamburg, Germany
35	John Shumway	Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, AZ.
36	Kwiseon Kim	Hired as NREL Staff after post doc. Now retired
37	Gus Hart	Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University
38	Selva Nair	Senior Researcher, ECAN, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
39	Mahdi Sanaty	Associate Professor Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX
40	Paul Kent	Staff member, Oak Ridge National Lab.
41	Priya Mahadevan	S.N. Bose National Centre Department of Condensed Matter Physics Kolkata, West Bengal, India
42	LigenWang	Professor, State Key University, China
43	Cetin Kilic	Gebze Technical University, Turkey
44	Volker Blum	Assistant Professor, Duke University, North Carolina.
45	Gabriel Bester	Professor, Hamburg University, Germany.
46	Marco Califano	Staff Scientist, University of Leeds, U.K.
47	Class Person	Assistant Professor, Department of Physics University of Oslo, Norway
48	Yu Jun Zhao	Professor, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
49	Sergey Dudiy	Maya Heat Transfer Technologies Ltd. Montreal, Quebec,Canada
50	Lixin He	Professor, Hefei University of Technology, China
51	Gustavo Narvaez	Scientist, Eclipse Energy Systems, Inc.
52	Sergey Barabash	Manager, Materials and Device Simulations / Senior Scientist at Intermolecular Inc. San Jose, California
53	Roman Chepulskyy	Staff Engineer, Material Modeling at Samsung Semiconductor R&D San Francisco
54	Joonhee An	Nanotechnology Professional Los Angeles, California
55	S. Lany	Hired as NREL Staff after the post doc. Now senior scientist, NREL
56	Giancarlo Trimarchi	Research Associate, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
57	Zhe Liu	Senior Lecturer Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Monash University Australia
58	Paulo Piquini	Professor, Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil
59	Hannes Raebiger	Professor Yokohama National University, faculty of Engineering Science
60	Mayeul d’Avezac	Technical staff, University College of London
61	Voicu Popescu	Researcher, Faculty of Physics University Duisburg-Essen Germany
62	Jun-Wei Luo	Professor, Chinese Academy of Science, China
63	Jennifer Chan	Imperial College, London
64	Koushik Biswas	Assistant Professor, Physics Arkansas state university
65	Vladan Mlinar	School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, USA
66	Xiuwen Zhang	Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute
67	Julien Vidal	Research Engineer at EDF R&D University of Paris
68	Arkady Mikhaylushkin	Professor, Chinese Academy of Science, China
69	Tula Paudel	Research Assistant Professor a University of Nebraska-Lincoln
70	Lijun Zhang	Professor, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University Changchun, China
71	Liping Yu	Research Associate professor, Temple University
72	Vladan Stevanovic	Associate professor, Colorado School of Mines
73	Qihang Liu	Associate Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
74	Yongang Yu	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
75	Leonardo Batoni Abdalla	Universidade de São Paulo
76	Gustavo M. Dalpian	Professor, Universidade de São Paulo
77	Zhi Wang	Professor, Chinese Academy of Science, China
78	Carlos Mera Acosta	Professor, Federal University of ABC, Brazil
79	Xingang Zhao	Professor, Northeast Normal University, China
80	Xiaoli Zhang	Professor, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
81	Oleksandr Malyi	Professor, ENSEMBLE Centre of Excellence, Wolczynska Warsaw, Poland
82	Linding Yuan	Northwestern University
83	Fernando Pereira Sabino	Federal University of ABC, Brazil
84	Jia-Xin Xiong	University of Colorado, Boulder, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute

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Gathering of past post docs in Denver APS meeting 2014

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