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The Atwater group is comprised of graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and visiting researchers in Applied Physics, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Chemistry. Researchers from institutes and universities worldwide collaborate on a variety of projects.

Group Leader

Professor Harry Atwater
Otis Booth Leadership Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science; Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science; Director, Liquid Sunlight Alliance

Senior Research Scientists

Dr. Michael Kelzenberg
Senior Research Scientist
Dr. Ruzan Sokhoyan
Nanophotonics Research Scientist

Research Scientists

Dr. Phil Jahelka
Staff Scientist

Postdocs

Dr. Aisulu Aitbekova
Dr. Claudio Hail
Dr. Sol A Lee
Dr. Lior Michaeli

Graduate Students

Sara Anjum
Julie Belleville
Ryan J. Benavides
Emily Dunn
Aidan Fenwick
Morgan Foley
Holland Frieling
Ramon Gao
John Hylak
Miles Johnson
Cesar Lasalde-Ramirez
Melissa Li
Yae-Chan Lim
Elsie Loukiantchenko
Kristina Malinowski
Arun Nagpal
Andrew Nyholm
Nimisha Ramprasad
Catherine Ryczek
Samuel Seah
Komron Shayegan
Lily Shiau
Jared Sisler
Ellis Spickermann
Rachel Tham
Prachi Thureja
Susana Torres Londono
Fabian Williams

Staff

Thomasine Murphy
Kevin Wong

Visitors / Collaborators

Dr. Ryan Briggs
Professor Artur Davoyan
Dr. Katherine (Kate) Fountaine
Dr. Jonathan Grandidier
Dr. Philip Hon
Dr. Richard King
Dr. Duhyun Lee
Professor Yu-jung (Yuri) Lu
Professor Hossein Mosallaei
Professor Albert Polman
Dr. Rosaria Anna Puglisi
Thomas Russell
Soh Uenoyama
Professor Benjamin Vest
Professor Pin Chieh Wu

Academic Faculty

Professor Zakaria (Zak) Al Balushi
Professor Muhammad Alam
Professor Koray Aydin
Professor Julie Biteen
Professor Elizabeth Boer
Professor Victor Brar
Professor Mark Brongersma
Professor Wen Hui (Sophia) Cheng
Professor Artur Davoyan
Professor Jennifer Dionne
Professor Joseph (Joe) Duchene
Professor Carissa Eisler
Professor Matthew Escarra
Professor Vivian Ferry
Professor Michael Filler
Professor Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
Professor Martha Grover
Professor Ognjen Ilic
Professor James Im
Professor Min Seok Jang
Professor Deep Jariwala
Professor Pieter Kik
Professor Sungjee Kim
Professor Howard (Ho Wai) Lee
Professor Marina Leite
Professor Yu-jung (Yuri) Lu
Professor Robert Macfarlane
Professor Stefan Maier
Professor Jeremy Munday
Professor Prineha Narang
Professor Deirdre O'carroll
Professor Domenico Pacifici
Professor Georgia Papadakis
Professor Regina Ragan
Professor Rebecca Saive
Dr. Zachary Schiffer
Professor Matthew Sheldon
Professor Giulia Tagliabue
Professor Adele Tamboli
Professor Katsu Tanabe
Professor Cho-jen Tsai
Professor Daniel Turner-Evans
Professor Benjamin Vest
Professor Pin Chieh Wu

Education and Research Administration

Dr. Anna Beck
Eoin Caffrey
Stepan Demchyshyn
Dr. Wei-Hsiang Lin
Dr. Ghazaleh Kafaie Shirmanesh
Dr. Erik Verlage
Dr. Joeson Wong

Academic Postdocs

Souvik Biswas
Dr. Laura Kim
Dr. Seyoon Kim
Dr. Yonghwi Kim
Dr. Yi-Rung Lin
Dr. Kelly Mauser
Dr. David Needell
Dr. Siying Peng

Research and National Labs

Dr. Chris Chen
Dr. Michael Deceglie
Dr. Jonathan Grandidier
Dr. Eyal Feigenbaum
Dr. Carrie Hofmann
Kelsey Whitesell Horowitz
Dr. Seokmin Jeon
Dr. Emily Kosten
Dr. Andrew Leenheer
Dr. Samuel Loke
Dr. Anya Mitskovets
Dr. Shouleh Nikzad
Dr. Maggie Taylor
Dr. Raymond Weitekamp

Industry and Private Sector

Dr. Marianne Aellen
Hamidreza Akbari
Dr. Melissa Archer
Dr. Nick Batara
Dr. Haley Bauser
Annette Boehme
Dr. Jeffrey Bosco
Dr. Ruth Brain
Dr. Julie Brewer
Dr. Rhett Brewer
Dr. Jeremy Brouillet
Dr. Ana Brown
Dr. Colton Bukowksky
Dr. Stanley Burgos
Dr. Dennis Callahan
Dr. Claudine Chen
Dr. Naomi Coronel
Dr. Sunita Darbe
Dr. Davis Darvish
Dr. René De Waele
Michelle Dee
Dr. Kenneth Diest
Dr. Hal Emmer
Dr. Pilar Espinet
Dr. Jim Fakonas
Dr. Tao Feng
Dr. Dagny Fleischman
Dr. Cristofer Flowers
Dr. Rebecca Glaudell
Dr. Imran Hashim
Dr. Gang He
Dr. Jason Holt
Dr. Jing-Shun Huang
Dr. Hyun S. Joo
Dr. Brendan Kayes
Dr. Gregory Kimball
Areum Kim
Dr. Lise Lahourcade
Dr. Krista Langeland
Dr. Xueqian (Lucy) Li
Dr. John Lloyd
Eowyn Lucas
Dr. Maribeth Mason
Dr. Gerald Miller
Dr. Kyu S. Min
Dr. Ramana Murty
Dr. Stefan Omelchenko
Dr. Michele Ostraat
Dr. Ragip Pala
Dr. Young-Bae Park
Dr. Imogen Pryce
Dr. Morgan Putnam
Dr. Christine Richardson
Dr. Jennifer L. Ruglovsky
Dr. Winston Saunders
Dr. Matthew Shaner
Dr. Kirill V. Shcheglov
Dr. Michelle Sherrott
Dr. Amanda Shing
Magel Su
Dr. Luke Sweatlock
Faisal Tajdar
Darci Taylor
Dr. Krishnan Thyagarajan
Dr. Yury Tokpanov
Dr. Yulia Tolstova
Dr. Nina Vaidya
Kyle Virgil
Dr. Robb Walters
Dr. Raymond Weitekamp
Dr. Alex Welch
Dr. Cora Went
Dr. Will Whitney
Dr. Samantha Wilson
Dr. Selmer Wong
Dr. Sisir Yalamanchili
Qin (Arky) Yang