People

Daria Atkinson
(she/her or they/them)
Postdoctoral Fellow

B.A., Carleton College (2015)
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2020)
Office: 2N12, David Rittenhouse Laboratory
email

Randy Kamien [cv]
(he/him/his)
Professor

B.S., M.S., California Institute of Technology (1988)
Ph.D., Harvard University (1992)
Office: 2N26, David Rittenhouse Laboratory
Phone: +1.215.898.5940
kamien at physics dot upenn dot edu
departmental homepage

David King
(he/him/his)
Postdoctoral Fellow

B.A., University of Cambridge (2016)
M.Sci., University of Cambridge (2017)
Ph.D., University of Cambridge (2021)
Office: 2N22, David Rittenhouse Laboratory
email

Sonia Mahmoudi
(she/her/hers)
Research Assistant Professor

B.S., M.S., IMT Mines Alès (2015)
Ph.D., Tohoku Univerisity (2022)
Office: Pennsylvania Fabric Discovery Center
email
personal homepage

Lauren Niu
(she/her/hers)
Postdoctoral Fellow

B.S., California Institute of Technology (2015)
Ph.D., Harvard University (2023)
Office: Pennsylvania Fabric Discovery Center

Paul Severino
(he/him/his)
Graduate Student

B.A., University of Chicago (2021)
Office: 2N12, David Rittenhouse Laboratory
email

Yvonne Zagzag
(she/her/hers)
Graduate Student

B.S., New York University (2019)
Office: 2N12, David Rittenhouse Laboratory
email

Former Members
Hillel Aharoni Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at the Weizmann Institute B.Sc., Hebrew University (2006) M.Sc., Hebrew University (2009) Ph.D., Hebrew University (2015) email personal homepage	Gareth Alexander Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at University of Warwick M.Phys., University of Oxford (2003) D.Phil., University of Oxford (2008) personal homepage	Helen Ansell (she/her/hers) Former Graduate Student now at Northwestern University M.Sci., University of Birmingham (2016) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2021) email
Natalie Arkus Former Postdoctoral Fellow B.A., Barnard College (2003) M.S., Columbia University (2004) S.M., Harvard University (2005) Ph.D., Harvard University (2009) email personal homepage	Daniel Beller Former Graduate Student now Faculty at Johns Hopkins University B.S., B.A., Brandeis University, (2010) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, (2014) email personal homepage	Igor Bluestein Former Graduate Student now Software Engineer at Siemens M.S., Voronezh University, Russia (1986) M.S., Florida International University (1996) email
Toen Castle Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at La Trobe University B.Sc., University of New England, Australia (2001) Ph.D., Australian National University (2013) email personal homepage	Nandita Chaturvedi (she/her/hers) Former Graduate Student now Postdoc at NCBS Bangalore M.Sc., Universitat zu Koln (2015) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2020) email	Bryan Gin-ge Chen Former Graduate Student A.B., A.M., Harvard University (2007) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2012) email personal homepage
Yigil Cho Former Postdoctoral Fellow now at Samsung B.S., Seoul National University, Korea (2005) Ph.D., Seoul National University, Korea (2012) email	Justin Cohen (he/him/his) Former Undergraduate Student now at Goldman Sachs B.A., University of Pennsylvania (2022) email	Simon Čopar Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at University of Ljubljana M.Sc., Universiy of Ljubljana (2009) Ph.D., Universiy of Ljubljana (2012) email
Brian DiDonna Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Software Engineer at Stellar Science B.S., Stanford University (1994) M.S., University of Chicago (2000) Ph.D., University of Chicago (2001) email	Cleverson Filguieras Former Visiting Graduate Student now Faculty at Universidade Federal da Campina Grande Ph.D., Universidade Federal de Paraíba (2009) email	Greg Grason (he/him/his) Former Graduate Student now Faculty at University of Massachusetts, Amherst B.A., University of Pennsylvania (2000) M.S., University of Pennsylvania (2002) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2005) email personal homepage
Mohamed Gharbi Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at UMass Boston M.S., Universiy of Tunis (2008) Ph.D., University of Montpellier II (2011) email personal homepage	Vianney Gimenez-Pinto Former Visiting Scholar now Faculy at Lincoln University of Missouri B.S., University of Carabobo, Venezuela (2007) Ph.D., Kent State University (2014) email	Xingting Gong Former Undergraduate Student now at Alphabet B.A., University of Pennsylvania (2015) Ph.D., Stanford University (2022) email
Eric Horsley Former Graduate Student now at Haynes Boone B.S., University of Texas, Austin (2014) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2019) J.D., Duke University (2022)	Ana Hočevar Former Visiting Student now at The Data Incubator B.Sc. University of Ljubljana (2007) M.S., University of Ljubljana (2009) Ph.D., University of Ljubljana (2012) email personal homepage	William Kung Former Graduate Student now Staff at Northwestern University B.S., California Institute of Technology (1999) Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (2004) email personal homepage
Andy Lau Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at Florida Atlantic University B.S., University of California, Davis (1994) M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara (1998) Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara (2000) email personal homepage	Max Lavrentovich Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at University of Tennessee, Knoxville B.A., Kenyon College (2008) Ph.D., Harvard University (2014) email personal homepage	Alex Levine Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at University of California, Los Angeles B.S., University of California, Los Angeles (1989) M.S., University of California, Los Angeles (1990) Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (1996) email personal homepage
Thomas Machon Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at Bristol M.Phys., University of Warwick (2011) M.Sc., University of Warwick (2013) Ph.D., University of Warwick (2016) email personal homepage	Sabetta Matsumoto Former Graduate Student now Faculty at Georgia Tech B.A., M.S., University of Pennsylvania (2007) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2011) email personal homepage	Carl Modes Former Graduate Student now Group Leader at MPI Dresden A.B., Princeton University (2002) Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (2008) email personal homepage
Ricardo Mosna Former Visiting Professor Ph.D., Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2004) email personal homepage	Chris Santangelo (he/him/his) Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at Syracuse University B.A., Cornell University (1997) Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara (2004) email personal homepage	Radmila Sazdanović Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at North Carolina State University Ph.D., George Washington University (2010) email personal homepage
Francesca Serra Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at Southern Denmark University B.Sci., Università degli Studi di Parma (2003) M.Sci., Università degli Studi di Parma (2006) Ph.D., University of Cambridge (2010) email personal homepage	Olivia Snir Former Graduate Student now Faculty at Oregon Health & Science University B.S., Fordham University (2004) M.S., University of Pennsylvania (2006) M.D., University of Pennsylvania (2013) personal homepage	Yehuda Snir Former Graduate Student now at Princeton Consulting B.S., Carnegie Mellon University (2001) M.S., University of Pennsylvania (2006) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2007)
Daniel Sussman (he/him/his) Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at Emory University B.A., Williams College (2007) Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2012) email personal homepage	Michael Tanis Former Artist in Residence B.A., Connecticut College (2000) M.S., Drexel University (2015) email personal homepage	Lisa Tran (she/her/hers) Former Graduate Student now Faculty at Utrecht University B.A., New York University (2012) M.S., University of Pennsylvania (2015) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2018) email personal homepage
Mario Triantafillou Former Graduate Student now at NewOak Capital Sc.B., Brown University (1993) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2000)	Vincenzo Vitelli Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at University of Chicago B.Sc., Imperial College London (1997) Ph.D., Harvard University (2005) email personal homepage	Xinyu Wang Former Visiting Graduate Student now Postdoctoral Fellow at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology B.S., Southeast University (China) (2015) email
Primoz Ziherl Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at Institut Jožef Stefan and University of Ljubljana B.S., University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (1992) Ph.D., University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (1998) email personal homepage

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