Alexandre Lazarian
Position title: Affiliated Professor
Email: alazarian@facstaff.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-1715
Affiliated Faculty
Yuan Ping
Position title: Affiliated Professor
Pronouns: she/her
Email: yping3@wisc.edu
Website: Home Page
Research Interests: develop ab-initio theory for excited state, quantum dynamics, and transport properties in solid-state materials
Yuan Ping received her B.Sc. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2007, Ph.D. from UC Davis in 2013, and materials postdoctoral fellow at Caltech in 2016. From then she is an assistant professor in chemistry and affiliated professor in physics at UC Santa Cruz, and promoted to be an associate professor with tenure in 2022. From July 2023, she moved to UWMadison as associate professor in Materials Science and Engineering, and affiliated professor in physics and chemistry. Her research group focuses on developing and employing first-principles many-body theory and quantum dynamics for materials applications. Ping is a recipient of Alfred Sloan Research Fellow (2022), DOE Computational Chemistry Science Award (2022), NSF CAREER Award (2022), Air Force YIP award (2021), and ACS COMP OpenEye Award (2021).
Daniel Rhodes
Position title: Affiliated Professor
Email: darhodes@wisc.edu
731 Engineering Research Building
Websites: Home Page, Materials Science Engineering
Research Interests: My research focuses on the processing and synthesis of novel 2D and bulk materials for interesting correlated, superconducting, and multiferroic phenomena. Our materials interests involve handling a variety of elements that span the periodic table. For 2D materials, we focus on those outside of the typical hexagonal crystal symmetry and attempt to understand how these changes in symmetry enable electrical transport phenomena, as well as the coexistence of phenomena that would typically be forbidden in the bulk. Our group also focusing on exploring the gambit of growth parameters in a subclass of 2D materials known as transition metal dichalcogenides via scanning probe microscopy methods. By systematically studying these parameters we can determine processes for nucleation and growth, and defect formation.
Since 2020, Rhodes has been an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Materials Science and Engineering Department. Rhodes originally earned his PhD in physics at Florida State University, where he primarily worked at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory synthesizing topological and superconducting bulk single crystals and measuring their Fermiology. From 2016 – 2019, Rhodes was a CNI postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University, primarily working in the field of 2D materials. Rhodes earned the NSF Career Award in 2024.
Micheline Soley
Position title: Affiliated Professor
Email: msoley@wisc.edu
Website: Micheline Soley's website
Address:
8305H Chemistry Building
Website: Home Page
Research Interests: Quantum computing algorithm development, atomic and molecular physics, ultracold chemistry and collisions, quantum reflection, PT symmetry, tensor networks, quantum dynamics
Jun Xiao
Position title: Affiliated Professor
Email: jun.xiao@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 890-2462
729 Engineering Research Building
Website: Xiao Group
