Alumni

• Suzanne Ali (Berkeley) – Postdoc at LLNL (2015-)
• Will Bassett (Illinois) – Postdoc at LLNL (2018-)
• Kathryn Brown (Illinois) – Postdoc (2012-2015) & Research Staff (2015-)
at LANL
• Jeffrey Carter (Illinois) – Postdoc at LANL (2011-2013)
• Raja Chellappa (Nevada-Reno) – Postdoc (2010-2015) & Research Staff
(2015-2016) at LANL
• Bethany Chidester (Chicago) – Postdoc at SNL (2017-2018)
• Samantha Clarke (Northwestern) – Postdoc at LLNL (2017-)
• D. Allen Dalton (Carnegie) – Program Manager at HQ (2019-)
• Sakun Duwal (Washington State) – Postdoc and Staff Scientist at SNL
(2019-)
• Michael Furlanetto (Carnegie) – Postdoc (2004-2006), Staff Scientist (2006-
2015), SCE PM (2015-) & Deputy Program Director (2017-) at LANL
• Katherine Ham (Alabama-Birmingham) – Postdoc at LLNL (2019-)
• Jane Herriman (Caltech) – Staff Scientist at LLNL (2019-)
• Arianna Gleason (Berkeley) – Reines Fellow at LANL (2014-)
• Janelle Jenkins (Arizona State) – Postdoc at SNL (2009-2011)
• Kanani Lee (Yale Faculty) – Staff Scientist at LLNL (2019-)
• John Lazarz (Northwestern) – Program Manager NNSA Headquarters DNN R&D (2021-)
• Amy Lazicki Jenei (Carnegie) – Postdoc at LLNL (2010-2013) & Staff
Scientist (2013-) at LLNL
• Jung-Fu Lin (Carnegie) – Lawrence Fellow at LLNL (2005-2008)
• Manchali Maddury (Carnegie) – Engineering Staff at SNL (2015-2017)
• Wendy Mao (Chicago) – Oppenheimer Fellow at LANL (2005-2007)
• Jeffrey Montgomery (Alabama-Birmingham) – Postdoc at LLNL (2016-)
• Max Murialdo (Caltech) – Postdoc at LLNL (2016-)
• Ken O’Neal (Tennessee) – Postdoc at LANL (2019-)
• Reed Patterson (Alabama-Birmingham) Postdoc at LLNL (2011-2013) &
Staff Scientist (2017-)
• Jeff Pigott (Ohio State) – Postdoc at LANL (2017-)
• Chris Seagle (Chicago) – Staff (2011-) and Group Leader (2019-) at SNL
• Andrew Shamp (Buffalo) – Postdoc at NNSA (2017-) & Staff Scientist at
LLNL (2017-)
• William Shaw (Illinois) – Postdoc at LLNL (2016-)
• Hannah Shelton (Hawaii) Postdoc at LLNL (2019-)
• Luke Shulenburger (Carnegie) – Postdoc (2010-2012), Staff Scientist
(2012-2016), & Principal Technical Staff (2016-) at SNL
• Elias Stavrou – Postdoc (2014-2016) & Staff Scientist (2016-2021) at LLNL
• Isaac Tamblyn (Dalhousie) – Postdoc at LLNL (2012)
• Sarah Thompson (Alabama-Birmingham) – LANS LLC (2015-)
• Joshua Townsend (Northwestern) – Postdoc at SNL (2016-); Senior
Technical Staff (2019-)
• Nenad Velisavljevic (Alabama-Birmingham) – Postdoc (2006-2009),
Staff Scientist (2008-) & Deputy Group Leader (2017-2019) at LANL;
LLNL HPCAT Director (2019-)
• Heather Watson (Carnegie) – Postdoc at LLNL (2007-2009)
• Eloisa Zepeda (Berkeley) – Postdoc at LANL (2019-)
• Samantha Couper (Utah) – Postdoc at LANL (2021-)

1. James Patterson (Illinois, 2004)

2. Raja Chellappa (Nevada-Reno, 2004)

3. Wendy Mao (Chicago, 2005)

4. Jenny Pehl (Berkeley, 2005)

5. Tabitha Swan-Wood (Caltech, 2005)

6. Sergio Speziale (Princeton, 2006)

7. Alexander Papandrew (Caltech, 2006)

8. Nenad Velisavljevic (Alabama–Birmingham, 2006)

9. Emre Selvi (Texas Tech, 2007)

10. Joanna Dodd (Caltech, 2007)

11. Matthew Lucas (Caltech, 2008)

12. Resul Aksoy (Texas Tech, 2008)

13. Lowell Miyagi (Berkeley, 2009)

14. Chris Seagle (Chicago, 2009)

15. Bin Chen (Illinois, 2009)

16. Zhu Mao (Princeton, 2009)

17. Janelle Jenkins (Arizona State, 2009)

18. Lyci George (Florida International, 2010)

19. Michael Winterrose (Caltech, 2010)

20. Erin Oelker (Arizona State, 2010)

21. Arianna Gleason (Berkeley, 2010)

22. Yahya Al-Khatatbeh (New Mexico State, 2010)

23. Susannah Dorfman (Princeton, 2011)

24. Xinyang Chen (Michigan, 2011)

25. Daniel Reaman (Ohio State, 2011)

26. Wenli Bi (Washington University, 2011)

27. Jeffrey Carter (Illinois, 2011)

28. Kathryn Brown (Illinois, 2012)

29. Wen-Pin Hsieh (Illinois, 2012)

30. Samrat Amin (Arizona State, 2012)

31. Reed Patterson (Alabama-Birmingham, 201x)

32. Yu Lin (Stanford, 2012)

33. Rostislav Hrubiak (Florida International, 2012)

34. Matt Armentrout (UCLA, 2012)

35. Walter Uhoya (Alabama-Birmingham, 2013)

36. Jane Kanitpanyacharoen (UC-Berkeley, 2013)

37. Jeffrey Finklestein (Princeton, 2013)

38. Andrew Stemshorn (Alabama-Birmingham, 2014)

39. Jorge Muñoz (Caltech, 2014) Electronic Structure and Phonon Thermodynamics of Iron Alloys

40. Chris Berg (Illinois, 2014)

41. Yun-Yuan Chang (Northwestern, 2014)

42. Pamela Kaercher (UC-Berkeley, 2014)

43. Zach Geballe (UC-Berkeley/Jeanloz, 2014) Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution

44. Hillary Smith (Caltech, 2104) Phase Transformations and Entropy of Non-Equilibrium Materials Faculty, Swarthmore College

45. Emma Rainey (UCLA, 2015) Postdoctoral, Applied Physics Laboratory

46. Gustav Borstad (Washington State, 2015) Postdoctoral, Army Research Lab

47. Max Bishop (Alabama-Birmingham, 2015)

48. Dane Tomasino (Washington State, 2015) Intel Corp.

49. Greg Hohensee (Illinois, 2015)

50. Lisa Mauger (Caltech, 2015) Phonon Thermodynamics of Iron and Cementite Arete Associates

51. Sally Tracy (Caltech, 2015) Polaron Hopping in Olivine Phosphates Studied by Nuclear Resonant Scattering Postdoctoral Associate, Princeton University

52. Zhixue Du (Yale, 2015) Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution

53. Jinhyuk Lim (Washington-St. Louis, 2015) Postdoctoral Associate, Washington State

54. Jeff Pigott (Ohio State, 2015) (Postdoctoral, LANL)

55. Jeff Montgomery (Alabama-Birmingham, 2015) (LLNL)

56. Sarah Thompson (Alabama-Birmingham, 2015) (LANL/LANS)

57. Suzanne Ali (UC-Berkeley, 2015/ Jeanloz) (LLNL)

58. Josh Townsend (Northwestern, 2016) (SNL)

59. Max Murialdo (Caltech, 2016) Anomalous Thermodynamics of Nonideal Gas Physisorption on Nanostructured Carbons (LLNL)

60. Will Shaw (Illinois, 2016) (LLNL)

61. Andrew Shamp (Buffalo) 2017 (NNSA HQ – LLNL)

62. Bethany Chidester (Chicago, 2017) (SNL)

63. Eloisa Zepeda-Alarcon (Berkeley, 2018/Wenk) Texture Development and Polycrystal Plasticity of Two-Phase Aggregates (LANL)

64. John Lazarz (Northwestern, 2018) Effect of Water on Thermoelasticity of Majoritic Garnet: Implications for the Seismic Structure at the Top of the Lower Mantle (LANL)

65. Samantha Clarke (Northwestern, 2018) Discovery of Novel High-Pressure Binary Bismuth Intermetallic Compounds (Postdoctoral, LLNL)

66. Sulgiye Park (Michigan/Stanford, 2018) Response of Lanthanide-Bearing Ternary Oxides to Extreme Environments (Postdoctoral, Stanford Univ)

67. Will Bassett (Illinois/Dlott), 2018) Shock Initiation Under the Microscope (LLNL)

68. Sakun Dawal (Washington State, 2018) Chemistries of Hydrogen-Sulfur Compounds, Layered Materials and Nitrogen-Rich Azides Under Pressure (SNL)

69. Hannah Shelton (Hawai’i, 2018) Compressional Behavior in Hydrogen-Bonded Crystals: Anhydrous Comparisons and Polymorphism (LLNL)

70. Raul Palomares (Tennessee, 2018) Probing Point Defects in Fluorite-Structured Actinide and Analogue Oxides (Boeing)

71. Ken O’Neal (Tennessee/FIS, 2018) Electronic and Magnetic Materials Under External Stimuli (LANL)

72. Fred Yang (Caltech, 2019) High-Temperature Electron-Phonon and Magnon-Phonon Interactions (Omniscience, Palo Alto CA)

73. Nicholas Weadock (Caltech, 2019) Addressing Thermodynamic Inefficiencies of Hydrogen Storage in Transition Metal Hydrides (Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Univ.)

74. Kierstin Daviau (Yale, 2019) A High Pressure and High Temperature Experimental Investigation of SiC and Related Systems: Implications for Carbon-Rich Planets (Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University)

75. Michael Orrill (George Washington, 2019) Ink Synthesis and Inkjet Printing of Multilayer Graphene Nanoshells

76. Katherine Ham (Alabama-Birmingham, 2019) High Pressure Studies on Borosilicate and Bulk Metallic Glasses (Postodctoral Fellow, LLNL)

77. Ryan Klein (Northwestern, 2019) Synthesis and Magnetism at High Pressure (Postodctoral Researcher, NREL/NIST)

78. Jane Herriman (Caltech, 2020) Phonon Thermodynamics and Elastic Behavior in GaN and GaAs at High Temperatures and Pressures (Staff Position, LLNL Computing)

79. Yi Hu (Hawai’i, 2020) Metastable Pyroxenes and Their Role in the Subduction Process

80. Tiange Bi (Buffalo, 2020) Density-Functional Studies of Hydrogen-Rich Materials, Methylammonium Lead Bromide Perovskite and Silicon Dioxide Under Pressure

81. Benjamin Brugman (Michigan State, 2021) Strength, Deformation and Compression Behavior of Tungsten Carbide, Krypton and Xenon Postdoctoral Researcher, Arizona State University

82. Samantha Couper (Utah, 2021) Application of Novel Methods for Investigating High Pressure and Temperature Deformation of Earth Materials Postdoctoral Researcher, LANL

83. Erin Nissen (Illinois/UIUC, 2021) Shock Compressing Liquids on a Tabletop Microscope, With Special Focus on Detonating Nitromethane Postdoctoral Fellow, SNL

84. Cade Vallero (UIC, 2023)

85. David Goeckner (UIC, 2023)

Michael Furlanetto (LANL)

Jung-Fu Lin (LLNL)

Amy Lazicki (LLNL) Luke Shulenberger (SNL)

Ellisios Stavrou (LLNL)

Allen Dalton (Program Manager, DOE HQ, from DTRA)

• Prof. David Cahill (Illinois) – 2010-2015
• Prof. Dhanesh Chandra (Nevada-Reno) – 2006
• Prof. Przemek Dera (Hawaii-Manoa) – 2013-2017
• Prof. Dana Dlott (Illinois) – 2003-
• Prof. Susannah Dorfman (Michigan State) – 2016-
• Prof. Robert Downs (Arizona) – 2008-2010
• Prof. Tom Duffy (Princeton) – 2003-2012
• Prof. Elif Ertekin ((llinois) – 2018-
• Prof. Rodney Ewing (Michigan/Stanford) –2010-2012
• Prof. Brent Fultz (Caltech) – 2003-
• Prof. Dion Heinz (Chicago) – 2003-2009, 2016-2017
• Prof. Toshiko Ichiye (Georgetown) – 2015-2016
• Prof. Steven Jacobsen (Northwestern) – 2008-
• Prof. Raymond Jeanloz (Berkeley) – 2008-2009, 2013-
• Prof. Abby Kavner (UCLA) – 2008-2015
• Prof. Maik Lang (Tennessee) – 2016-
• Prof. Kanani Lee (New Mexico State/Yale) – 2006-2015
• Prof. Jie Li (Michigan) – 2008-2012
• Prof. Jung-Fu Lin (Texas-Austin) – 2009-2012
• Prof. Yanzhang Ma (Texas Tech) – 2006-2007
• Prof. Wendy Mao (Stanford) – 2008-2012
• Prof. Lowell Miyagi (Utah) – 2013-
• Prof. Wendy Panero (Ohio State) – 2008-2012
• Prof. Surendra Saxena (Florida International) – 2006-2012
• Prof. James Schilling (Washington at St. Louis) – 2008-2017
• Prof. Yogesh Vohra (Alabama-Birmingham) – 2003-2017
• Prof. Hans-Rudolf Wenk (Berkeley) – 2003-2017
• Prof. Jeff Yarger (Arizona State) – 2006-2012
• Prof. Eva Zurek (Buffalo) – 2013-
• Prof. Choong-Shik Yoo (Washington State) – 2013-2017