Principal Investigator
Steven May
Email: smay (at) drexel.edu
Office: 346 LeBow Engineering Building
Phone: 215-571-3650
- Department Head (2020 – )
Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University - Professor (2019 – )
Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University - Associate Professor (2015 – 2019)
Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University - Assistant Professor (2009 – 2015)
Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University - Postdoctoral Researcher (2007 – 2009)
Argonne National Laboratory - Ph.D. (2002 – 2007)
Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University - B.S. (1998 – 2002)
Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State University
Staff Scientist
Rajesh Dutta
BS (2010); Physics, University of Calcutta
MS (2012); Physics; Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
PhD (2017); Condensed Matter Physics, Universite de Bordeaux
Postdoctoral Researcher (2018-2023); Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (FRMII, Garching) and RWTH Aachen University
PhD Students
Prajwal Laxmeesha
BE (2018); Mechanical Engineering, Bangalore Institute of Technology
Tessa Tucker
BS (2021); Physics, West Chester University
Kriti Panchal
BS & MS (2023); Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
MS Students
Jane Frostad
Andrew Mirea
Vikramjit Singh
Tarush Tandon
James Tsai
Former Members
PhD students:
Cole Smith (01/2010 – 12/2014; IMEC)
Mark Scafetta (09/2010 – 06/2015; Air Force Technical Applications Center)
Amber Choquette (09/2012 – 06/2017; Micron Technology, Inc)
Alex Krick (09/2012 – 06/2017; Northrop Grumman)
Amanda Huon (09/2013 – 01/2019; Assistant Professor of Physics at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA)
Jiayi Wang (09/2015 – 06/2020; Assistant Professor at the Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
Benjamin Lefler (01/2017 – 06/2022; Wolfspeed)
Yizhou Yang (04/2018 – 06/2022; Intel Corp)
Postdoctoral Researchers:
Rebecca Sichel-Tissot (06/2011 – 02/2014; Senior Materials Scientist at Ebatco)
Eun Ju Moon (06/2012 – 08/2016; Instrumentation Scientist at SUNY Buffalo)
Paul Rogge (09/2016 – 02/2020; Engineer at the IRS)
David Ferron Bugallo (01/2022 – 10/2023; Research Chemist at Decotek Automotive, Ireland)
MS students:
Erwin Fernandez (MESC program, 2012; Vecor Labs),
Robert Devlin (2013; CEO and co-founder of Metalenz),
Yujun Xie (2014; Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ),
James Devine (2015; SRI International),
Andrew Cieri (2016; Evaporated Coatings, Inc.),
Wren Gordon (2017; Current Design, Inc.),
Yuchen Hou (2018; Lam Research),
Zizhao Chen (2018; pursuing PhD at Texas A&M),
Cosmin Popescu (2020; pursuing PhD at MIT).
BS thesis students:
Jared Gdanski (2020; pursuing PhD at Ohio State)
Visiting Researchers:
Lucas Barreto (07/2019 – 4/2020; visiting assistant professor from Universidade Federal do ABC)
Yu Zhou (9/2017 – 08/2018; visiting PhD student from Shandong University; now postdoc at Tsinghua University)