Group Members

Professor

Sean Shaheen

Professor, ECEE Department • Professor by Courtesy, Department of Physics • Faculty of the Materials Science & Engineering Program • Fellow, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) • Joint Appointee, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) • Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Photonics for Energy

sean.shaheen@colorado.edu

Visiting Reseachers

Rachith S N

Doctoral Fellow

IMO-IMOMEC • Functional Materials Engineering (FME)

Rachith is a Ph.D. researcher from the University of Hasselt, Belgium. He is visiting CU Boulder through an international mobility funding from the Research Foundation – Flanders, Belgium. His project at CU Boulder will investigate the influence of plasmonic nanoparticles on organic semiconducting and hybrid perovskite materials. In his recent work, he has investigated the use of organic-inorganic hybrid nanocomposites as functional layers for efficient organic light-emitting diodes. As part...

rachith.shanivarasanthe@uhasselt.be

Graduate Research Associates

Spencer Hall

Ph.D. Student

Physics

Spencer recently graduated with a B.S. in Physics from CU Boulder. He will be continuing on as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2021. His research interests are focused on modeling and experiment of carrier dynamics in perovskite thin films and photovoltaics.

spencer.hall@colorado.edu

Lauren Hurley

Ph.D. Student

ECEE

Lauren graduated with a B.S. in Physics from Villanova University in 2021 and has spent the last year at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay as a Fulbright Advanced Student, carrying out work on perovskite materials and devices. For more on her Fullbright experience, see her recent interview Lauren Hurley, advanced student in energy engineering .

lauren.hurley@colorado.edu

Vesta Zhelyaskova

Ph.D. Candidate

ECEE

Vesta Zhelyaskova is a Ph.D. student and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awardee in the ECEE department. She has studied the growth and chemical doping of organic thin films for superconductivity and is currenlty working on perovskite photovoltaic materials and devices. She previously received her B.S. in physics from the University of Florida.

vesta.zhelyaskova@colorado.edu

Research Associates

Michael Stark

B.S. Physics, 2021

Michael recently graduated with his B.S. in Physics. He has a passion for physical chemistry and innovations in photonics. He is working on materials and characterization for photon upconversion via the mechanism of cooperative energy pooling (CEP).

michael.stark@Colorado.EDU

Former Group Members

MillerVu, REU student Summer 2022, B.S. student in Physics at Emory University
Sean Dunfield, Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering 2021, now at UCSD
Jiselle Ye, B.S. Electrical Engineering, 2021, now a Ph.D. student at the Colorado School of Mines
Jake Perez, M.S. Electrical Engineering 2020, now at Advanced Thermovoltaic Solutions
Prachi Sharma, Ph.D. 2018 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, part-time postdoc, now at the University of Denver
Lauren Hurley, REU student summer 2020 (remote), B.S. student in physics at Villanova University
Joshua Brown, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering 2019, now at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. To learn more about his background, see his article from 2018 on My Path to Engineering.
Benjia Dou, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering 2018, now in the Organic and Nanostructured Electronics Lab at MIT
Gabrielle Koknat, REU student 2018, Dept. of Physics, University of Cincinnati, now a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at Duke University
Carlo Scanelli, B.S. EE 2017
Daniel Weingarten, Ph.D. Physics 2017, now at Navigant Consulting
Aniket Rana, Ph.D. student, visiting scholar from National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi
Robert Enright, REU student summer 2016, B.S. Chemistry, 2017, Ripon College
Samantha Collin, REU student summer 2016, B.S. Physics, 2017, Rollins College
Soo Park, B.S. ECEE, 2016
Victor Palacios, B.S. ECEE, 2016, now at U. Central Florida
Philipp Koeder, M.S. student, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, visiting scholar from group of Prof. Christoph Brabec, iMEET
Santanu Pradhan, Ph.D. student, visiting scholar from IIT Kharagpur
David Ostrowski, Postdoc 2013-2014, CU Boulder; Ph.D. 2012, Univ. of Texas Austin; now at NREL
Robert Nawrocki, Ph.D. 2014, Univ. of Denver; now at Purdue University
Matthew Watwood, B.S. 2014, Univ. of Denver
Andrew Watt, B.S. 2014, Univ. of Denver
Xin Jiang, Ph.D. 2013, Univ. of Denver; now at Cadence Design Systems Inc.
Stephen Ray, Ph.D. 2013, Univ. of Denver; now at Regis University, co-sponsored with Prof. Kingshuk Ghosh and Prof. David Patterson
Ajaya Sigdel, Ph.D. 2013, Univ. of Denver, sponsored and co-advised by Dr. Joseph Berry, NREL; now at Intel Corporation
Antonia Nava, Jr., M.S. 2012, Univ. of Denver; http://www.linkedin.com/pub/antonio-nava-jr/77/356/2b0
Brian Bailey, Ph.D. 2012, Univ. of Denver; co-advised by Dr. Nikos Kopidakis, NREL; now at Intel Corporation
Kari Storslett, B.S. 2012, Univ. of Denver; now at UC Berkeley, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Alexandre Nardes, Postdoc 2008-2010, Univ. of Denver; now at NREL
Matthew White, Ph.D. 2009, CU Boulder Dept. of Physics; now at the University of Vermont. Link to his Device Physics Research Group .
Rezwanur Rahman, M.S. 2008, Univ. of Denver; now at Newisys
Donald Dressen, B.S. 2008, Univ. of Denver; now at Nike
Dana Olson, Ph.D. 2006, Colorado School of Mines; now at GNV DL.

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