Faculty
Lyubov Titova
Principal Investigator
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)
Kateryna Kushnir
Assistant Teaching Professor
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:
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Ryan Hanna
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.
Melina Welch
Alumni
Taylor Trottier
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Taylor has worked in our lab in 2017-18. He is currently an MS candidate in Mechanical Engineering (WPI)
Andrew Mendizabal
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Andrew did his MQP work on BiI3 photoluminescence. He graduated with an MS in September 2020.
Patrick Fitzgerald
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Patrick graduated in 2018 and received Salisbury Award.
Benjamin Dringoli
Undergraduate Research Assistant
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
Alexis Buzzell
Undrgraduate Research Assistant
Clare Boothe Luce Fellow - 2018-2019
MS candidate in Mechanical Engineering (WPI)
Teng Shi
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:
Erika Colin Ulloa
PhD in Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, 2024
MS in Optics, the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico - 2019
Caroline Jaeger
Luce Fellow, 2020
Guangjiang Li
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:
4. “Dynamical Control over Terahertz Electromagnetic Interference Shielding with 2D Ti3C2Ty MXene by Ultrafast Optical Pulses,” G. Li, N. Amer, H.A. Hafez, S. Huang, D. Turchinovich, V.N. Mochalin, F.A. Hegmann, L.V. Titova, Nano Lett. 20, 1, 636-643 (2020).
Erin Morissette
Undergraduate Research Assistant
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.