Professor of Physics with affiliate appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering - Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2024 - present)

Associate Professor of Physics with affiliate appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering - Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2019 - present)

Assistant Professor of Physics - Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2014 - 2019)

Research Associate - Ultrafast Nanotools Lab, University of Alberta (2010-2014)

Avadh Bhatia Postdoctoral Fellow - University of Alberta, Canada (2007-2010)

Postdoctoral Fellow - University of Cincinnati (2005-2007)

Ph.D. (Physics) - University of Notre Dame (2005)

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WPI Physics BS/MS, Chemistry BS - 2022

Projects: Ryan is working on MXene DFT calculations in collaboration with Deskins Lab at ChemEng, and on MXene surface chemistry in collaboration with Grimm Lab at Chem & Biochem. He is also writing a Python code for analyzing THz TDS images taken with Toptica TeraFlash. He is also a double major (physics/chemistry) and a grader for Physics Department. We all suspect he has a Time-Turner in his possession.

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).

PhD in Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, 2024

MS in Optics, the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico - 2019

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:

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