Our Team

Faculty

Lyubov Titova

Principal Investigator

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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

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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

RyanHannaWPI 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

      Alexis Buzzell

      Undrgraduate Research Assistant

      Clare Boothe Luce Fellow - 2018-2019

      MS candidate in Mechanical Engineering (WPI)

        Erika Colin Ulloa

        erika

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

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

          Caroline Jaeger

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            Guangjiang Li

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            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:

            Erin Morissette

            Undergraduate Research Assistant

            Erin&Katy

            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 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.