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 Basanez – Master’s Visiting Scholar (2022-2023) -> PhD applicant
Bryant Jerome – Master’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