Group Members

2023

 

2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATES

Dr. Keith Sanders

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Will Schmid

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. student at Rice University, Houston, TX, working on increasing the efficiency of light driven desalination devices.

Qian Ye

 

 

 

 

 

 

Physics Ph.D. student at Rice University, Houston, TX, working on coupling properties of light-harvesting modules for decentralized energy storage systems and heat management

 

Narmada Naidu (collaboration with Nordlander group)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Applied Physics Ph.D. student at Rice University, Houston, TX, working on Theoretical Plasmonics and Nanophotonics. Currently employing numerical methods to optimize nanoparicle based photothermal cancer therapy.

 

VISITING RESEARCHERS

Dr. Andrea Schirato 

Physics Ph.D. candidate at Politecnico of Milan & Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy, working on Theoretical Nanophotonics with particular focus on the theoretical study and numerical modelling of the ultrafast light-matter interaction at the nanoscale in nonlinear optical nanostructures and metasurfaces

Maria Crespo (Visiting Scholar, Research Technician at Baylor College of Medicine)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello! My name is Maria. I am working with Professor Alasbastri´s lab together with Baylor College of Medicine. The aim of it is to generate a model based on evoked potentials in epileptic patients for a better understanding of brain connections.

Aubin Touraquet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Master’s student in Applied Physics and Physical Engineering from University of Technology of Troyes. Aubin works on the modeling of the oxidation dynamics of Aluminum nanoparticles.

 

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Jonathan Avecilla

 

 

 

 

 

 

Undergraduate research intern working on photothermal effects in an ensemble of nanostructures

Alessandro Bordone

 

 

 

 

 

 

Optimizing effective electric permittivity retrieval procedures for designing optical metasurfaces.

 

PREVIOUS MEMBERS – ROLE -> FOLLOWING POSITION:

Maria BasanezMaster’s Visiting Scholar (2022-2023) -> PhD applicant

Bryant JeromeMaster’s student (2020-2023) -> IT sector

Isabella Chiodi – Undergraduate research intern (2021) -> Chemical Engineering sophomore at Rice University

Joao Cunha – Visiting Scholar (2020) -> Research Fellow at International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory