PhD in Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, 2021

MS in Theoretical Physics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine

BS in Theoretical Physics,  Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine

 

Awards:

WPI Global Research Award - Summer 2019 (McGill University, Montreal, Canada, host - Prof. David Cooke)

WPI Graduate Student Travel Award – 2017, 2018, 2019

2018 Department of Physics Outstanding Mentor Award

Publications at WPI:

 

• Email Kateryna Kushnir

Luce Fellow, 2020

PhD in Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA (2021)

MS in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China

BS in Physics,  Shanxi Datong University, China

Project: Carrier dynamics and microscopic conductivity in 2D nanomaterials (MXenes) and energy materials; nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy

Awards:

WPI Global Research Award - Summer 2018 (Max Plank Institute for Polymer Science, Mainz, Germany,  host - Prof. Dmitry Turchinovich)

WPI Graduate Student Travel Award – 2019

Publications at WPI:

• Email Guangjiang Li

Best poster award - Optical Terahertz Science and Technology conference in Santa Fe, NM, 2019, awarded by A. Roelofs, Director of Center for Integrative Nanotechnologies at Sandia National Labs

Best poster award nominee - Materials Research Society Meeting, Boston, MA (2017)

Clare Boothe Luce Fellow - 2017-2019

Erin has started a PhD program in Physics at Brown University in Fall of 2019.

Taylor has worked in our lab in 2017-18. He is currently an MS candidate in Mechanical Engineering (WPI)

Andrew did his MQP work on BiI3 photoluminescence. He graduated with an MS in September 2020.

Patrick graduated in 2018 and received Salisbury Award.

“Ultrafast Zero-bias Photocurrent in GeS Nanosheets: Promise for Photovoltaics,” K. Kushnir, M. Wang, P.D. Fitzgerald, K.J. Koski, L.V. Titova, ACS Energy Lett. 2, 1429 (2017).

Ben graduated in 2017 and received a Goddard Award for his MQP (senior thesis).
He is now a PhD student in Cooke Lab at McGill University in Montreal, Canada

“Ultrafast carrier dynamics in BiVO₄ thin film photoanode material: interplay between free carriers, trapped carriers and low-frequency lattice vibrations,” K.T. Butler, B.J. Dringoli, L. Zhou, P.M. Rao, A. Walsh, and L.V. Titova, J. Mater. Chemistry A, 4, 18516 (2016).

Clare Boothe Luce Fellow - 2018-2019

MS candidate in Mechanical Engineering (WPI)

Dr. Teng Shi was a Postdoc Fellow in our lab from 11/2018 to 11/2020.

She is currently a Research Associate at Los Alamos National Lab.

Publications at WPI:

"Photoexcited Free Carrier Dynamics in Bi₂Se₃, (Bi_0.75In_0.25)₂Se₃, and (Bi_0.50In_0.50)₂Se₃: From Topological to Band Insulator," Teng Shi, Kateryna Kushnir, Zhengtianye Wang, Stephanie Law, Lyubov V. Titova, ACS Photonics 7, 2778–2786 (2020).

"Two-Dimensional MXenes Mo₂Ti₂C₃T_z and Mo₂TiC₂T_z: Microscopic Conductivity and Dynamics of Photoexcited Carriers," Guangjiang Li, Varun Natu, Teng Shi, Michel W. Barsoum, Lyubov V. Titova, ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 3, 1530–1539 (2020).