PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Jairo Velasco, Jr.
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
University of California at Santa Cruz
POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS
Tianhui Zhu
PhD University of Virginia 2022
Research Interests: Point defects in 2D materials, NC-AFM
Qirong Yao
PhD University of Twente, Netherlands 2019
Research Interests: Point defects in 2D materials, spin polarized STM
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Carlos Gonzalez 3rd year student
(coadvised with Aiming Yan)
Research Interests: Point defects in 2D materials
B.S. Physics UC Santa Cruz 2021
Livi Lin first year student
Research Interests: 2D material heterostructures
B.S. Physics 2023
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Annette Asryan
Research Interests: Novel graphene based transistors
Zac Scott-Murphy
Research Interests: Novel moire based transistors
Wyatt Honsberger
Research Interests: Novel quasicrystal based transistors
ALUMNI
POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS
Fred Joucken
Senior Metrology Data Engineer at Diamond Foundry
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Zhehao Ge
Postdoctoral Scholar in Crommie group at UC Berkeley
Arturo Quezada
Process engineer at Intel
John Davenport
Data Science at Clipboard Health
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Caren Nader
Junyan Liu (University of George Washington Materials Science MS Program)
Alexandra Lara
Zhuonan Ji (UIUC Materials Science MS Program)
Salma Lira (Sila Nanotech)
Kian Jansepar (UC Berkeley)
Jonah Baughman
Hechin Chen
Belinda Zhen (UC Berkeley Extension)
Alexander Stram (UT Austin Physics PhD program)
Joint group holiday dinner (Santa Cruz Fall 2023)
Group celebration for Zhehao’s successful defense!!!
Zhehao Ge graduation!!!
Group celebration lunch
Santa Cruz, 2023
Group hotpot holiday dinner
San Jose, (Fall 2021)
Goodbye dinner for Bruce
Santa Cruz, Fall 2019
Welcome dinner for new members!
Santa Cruz, Summer of 2017