People

Principle Investigator

Prof. Andrej Singer – asinger@cornell.edu 

Associate Professor, David Croll Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow

Andrej Singer received his Ph.D. (2012) in Physics from the University of Hamburg, Germany in the lab of Prof. Edgar Weckert and Prof. Ivan Vartanyants, following a Physics diploma from the University of Muenster, Germany. He was then as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Oleg Shpyrko at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Singer’s research explores how materials evolve under non-equilibrium conditions, spanning quantum materials to applied energy systems. His group develops and applies coherent X-ray scattering techniques at synchrotrons and free-electron lasers to visualize structural and electronic changes in real time, offering insights into both fundamental physics and practical device operation.

Go to: Postdoctoral Fellows    Graduate Students    Undergraduate Students    Alumni

 

Postdoctoral Fellows

Oleg Gorobtsov – og62@cornell.edu

Oleg received an M.S. in Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and then a Ph.D. in Physics from DESY and Hamburg University. He is working on free electron laser science, coherent imaging of battery materials and mesocrystals.

Timo Fuchs – tfuchs@cornell.edu

Timo received his Ph.D. in Physics from Kiel University. He is currently working on surface x-ray scattering to understand fundamental mechanisms occurring in electrochemical reactions. Timo is a Kavli Postdoctoral Fellow.

 

Graduate Students

Ziming Shao – zs347@cornell.edu

 

Yifei Sun – ys876@cornell.edu

Yifei received her B.A. in Environmental Studies from Macalester College, MN in 2017. She is currently working on operando coherent x-ray diffractive imaging on energy storage materials.

Benjamin Gregory- bg436@cornell.edu

 

Saptarshi Das- sd724@cornell.edu

 

 

Rylan Fernandes rcf95@cornell.edu

 

Master Students

Mark Iheanyi Nwadiuko min22@cornell.edu

 

Simon Yang hy642@cornell.edu

Undergraduate Students

Jeff Hodgson- jwh293@cornell.edu

Jeff is a senior in Materials Science and Engineering originally from Rochester, NY. He is working on interpreting reciprocal space maps from thin film quantum materials.

 

Alumni

Postdoctoral Scholars

  • Anita Verma
  • Jakob Gollwitzer

Graduate students

  • Jason Huang – Ph.D. (moved on to Sandia National Laboratories)
  • Aileen Lou – Ph.D. (moved on to Argonne National Laboratory)

Master Students

  • Ryan Bouck – MS
  • Daniel Weinstock – MS
  • Yumeng Song – MS
  • Stephanie Matson – MS (moved on to LLNL)
  • Wenxuan Qiu – MS (moved on to Applied Materials)
  • Ziyi Wang – MS (moved on to graduate program at Caltech)

Undergraduate Students

  • Anna Lin
  • Eve Lesburg
  • Dogan Tarik Karabay (moved on to graduate program at MIT)
  • Jiaruo Li (moved on to graduate program at MIT)
  • Raghav Kumar
  • Patrick Ding (moved on to graduate program at Northwestern)
  • Malia Okamura – Summer REU