Postdoctoral Associates (2)
Jeffrey K. Eliason
Postdoc, 2015 - 2016
Senior Research Engineer, 3M

David T. Valley
Postdoc, 2014 - 2016
Staff Scientist, Physical Electronics

Ph.D. Students (15)
Simon A. Willis
Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Jan. 2025
"Development of Off-Axis Photoemission for 4-Dimensional Ultrafast Electron Microscopy"

P. Ela Engen
Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Minnesota, May 2023
"Elucidation of Charge Density Wave Stability and Defect Interactions in the Highly-Ordered Structural Transition Metal Dichalcogenide System 1T-TaS₂"
Middle School Science Teacher, Star of the North Academy

Jialiang Chen
Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Minnesota, March 2023
"Ultrafast Polar Vortex Dynamics on PTO/STO Superlattices: Instrument and Method Development for High-Resolution UEM"
Senior Product Engineer, Analog Devices

Wyatt A. Curtis
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Sept. 2022
"Towards the Ultimate Spatiotemporal Resolutions in Low Repetition Rate, Laser Based Ultrafast Electron Microscopy: Theoretical and Experimental"
NSF Predoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Associate, Laboratory of Molecular Nanodynamics, EPFL (Ulrich Lorenz)

Daniel X. Du
Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Aug. 2021
"Quantification of Coherent Acoustic Phonon Dynamics with Ultrafast Electron Scattering"
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University (Anthony Fitzpatrick)

Elisah J. VandenBussche
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, July 2021
"The Use of Pulsed Electron Beams to Extend TEM Capabilities"
NSF Predoctoral Fellow
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Formerly AAAS Fellow, DOE Office of Policy; ASME Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow - Energy
Engineer in the DOE Office of Policy

Yichao Zhang
Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Minnesota, July 2021
"Nanoscale Coherent Acoustic-Phonon Dynamics in Molybdenum Disulfide with Ultrafast Electron Microscopy"
Phi Kappa Phi Doctoral Dissertation Fellow
Louise T. Dosdall Fellow
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Maryland

Ryan A. Gnabasik
Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Jan. 2021
"Real-Space Imaging of Picosecond Structural Dynamics in Metals with Ultrafast Transmission Electron Microscopy"
Research Scientist, Euclid Techlabs

Spencer A. Reisbick
Ph.D., Chemical Physics, University of Minnesota, Oct. 2020
"Defect-Mediated Structural Dynamics in 1T-TaS₂ Using Ultrafast Electron Microscopy"
Research Associate, Materials Science, Electron Microscopy Group, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Thomas E. Gage
Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Oct. 2018
"Probing the Crystallization Process and Morphology of Thin Films of Yttrium Iron Garnet on Non-Garnet Substrates with In Situ TEM Methods" (co-advised by Beth Stadler)
Assistant Scientist, Electron and X-ray Microscopy, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory

Dayne A. Plemmons
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Aug. 2017
"Nanoscale Energy Transport Investigated with Ultrafast Electron Microscopy"
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Research Engineer, US Army CCDC Army Research Lab

Daniel R. Cremons
Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Minnesota, June 2017
"Investigating Phonon Behavior in Heterogeneous Nanoscale Systems with Ultrafast Electron Microscopy"
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Remote Sensing Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Alyssa J. Fielitz (McKenna)
Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Minnesota, May 2017
"Photo-induced Structural Dynamics of Molybdenum Disulfide"
NSF Predoctoral Fellow
Associate Research Scientist, Dow Chemical (Analytical Sciences)

Karl "Boo" Schliep
Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Feb. 2017
"The Investigation of New Magnetic Materials and Their Phenomena using Ultrafast Frensel Transmission Electron Microscopy" (co-advised by Jianping Wang)
Managing Consultant Data Scientist, Berkeley Research Group

Pranav K. Suri
Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Minnesota, June 2016
"Static and Dynamic Electron Microscopy Investigations at the Atomic and Ultrafast Scales"
Senior Process R&D Engineer, Micron Technology

M.S. Students (3)
Kyle C. Snow
M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2016
Data Scientist, Citrine Informatics

Jessica H. Kissel
M.S., Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 2015
Analysis and Testing Scientist, International Paper

Morgan Yount
M.S., Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 2022

Undergraduate and REU Students (11)
Olivia Underhill
B.S., Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Expected 2024

Marina Tschida
Summer 2019 MRSEC REU Student
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2020

Kevin Lam
UROP Award Winner
B.S., B.Ch.E., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2019
Sustaining Engineer, Seagate

Youn Uk Song
B.S., B.Ch.E., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2018

Jennifer Donohue
Summer 2016 MRSEC REU Student
B.S., Mathematics and Materials Chemistry, Binghamton University, 2018
Graduate Student, UC Berkeley Materials Science and Engineering (Andy Minor)

Madeline "Madi" Hanson
UROP Award
B.Ch.E., Chemical Engineering, B.S., Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 2017
Materials Engineer, Brady Corporation

Shane Hughes
UROP Award
B.S., Chemistry, Computer Science Minor, University of Minnesota, 2017
Web Developer, FurnitureDealer.net

Clay H. Batton
B.Ch.E., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2016
Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley Chemical Engineering (Kranthi Mandadapu)

Colin R. Scheibner
Summer 2015 MRSEC REU Student
B.A., Physics and Math, St. Olaf College, 2017
Graduate Student, University of Chicago Physics (Vincenzo Vitelli)

Sushruth "Sushi" Venkatesh
B.Ch.E., Chemical Engineering, Chemistry Minor, University of Minnesota, 2015
Transformation Lead, Firmenich

Noah J. Holzman
Summer 2013 MRSEC REU Student
B.S., Materials Science, Chemistry Minor, University of Wisconsin-Stout, 2014
M.S., University of Minnesota Materials Science and Engineering (Lorraine Francis)