PI
Sayantani Ghosh (sghosh@ucmerced.edu) 
Ph.D., 2003 — University of Chicago, B.A., 1998 — University of Cambridge
Graduate Students
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Jussi Amaral (jamaral2@ucmerced.edu)
​Education: BS Physics, Fresno State University
Research: Magneto-optical, fluorescence and polarized microscopy of magnetic and semi-conducting nanoparticles in soft matter; nanoparticle synthesis and mesogenic functionalization
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Makiko Quint (mtsukamoto@ucmerced.edu)
Education: BS Physics, Syracruse University
Research: Nano Assembly of micro-shells in liquid crystal medium; optically triggered switching of liquid crystals; plasmonics; drug delivery.
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Som Sarang (ssarang@ucmerced.edu)
Education: BS-MS Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India
Research: Synthesis and manufacture of Perovskite solar cells; photoluminescence studies of Perovksite thin films; optical studies of self assembled AuNP-DNA structures.
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Katerina Nikolaidou (knikolaidou@ucmerced.edu)
Education: Int. MSc, Physics, University of Bristol, UK;  MS Sustainable Energy Futures, Imperial College   London, UK
Research: Metal oxide nanostructures for transporting layers in Perovskite solar cells; luminescent solar concentrators using perovskite thin films
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Benaz Colabewala (bcolabewala@ucmerced.edu)
Education: BS Physics, California State University, Long Beach
Research: Solar cells.
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Mark Bartolo (mbartolo@ucmerced.edu)
Education: BS Applied Physics, California State University, San Marcos
Research: Magneto-optical and Fluorescence microscopy studies of magnetically doped quantum dots.
​Undergraduate researchers
Denzal Martin (dmartin22@ucmerced.edu)
Michiro Robinson (mrobinson24@ucmerced.edu)  

Alumni
Matt Wilson (Graduate student, UC Riverside)
Dr. Christopher Ferri (Postdoctoral Researcher, UC San Diego)
John Harvey Paredes (Master's program, Applied Physics, University of Oregon)
Silverio Delgado
Dr. Andrea Rodarte (anrodarte@eng.ucsd.edu, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC San Diego)
Jacky Wan (Graduate student, UC Riverside)
Corinne Gray (cmg83@pitt.edu, Graduate student, University of Pittsburgh)
Patrick Talbot (CSU Fresno)
Dr. Georgiy Shcherbatyuk (gshcherbatyuk@gmail.com, Assistant Professor, Benedictine College, Kansas)
Michael Tennenbaum (mtennenbaum3@gatech.edu, Graduate Student, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Jessica Clayton (jclayton@physics.ucsb.edu, Graduate student, UC Santa Barbara)
Richard Inman (rinman@ucsd.edu, Graduate student, UC San Diego)