Principle Investigator
Prof. Andrej Singer – asinger@cornell.edu
Assistant 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 studied the properties of new x-ray sources, particularly their ability to generate interference patterns, similar to lasers in optics. He then worked as a Postdoc in the lab of Prof. Oleg Shpyrko at the University of California, San Diego. Dr Singer’s group uses coherent x-ray scattering techniques at synchrotrons and free-electron lasers to study a wide range of materials, spanning from quantum materials to applied energy materials in operando devices. Dr. Singer is interested in understanding the fundamental properties of energy materials and quantum materials out-of-equilibrium.
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.
Anita Verma – anita.verma.0829@gmail.com
Jakob Gollwitzer – jg2364@cornell.edu
Jakob received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Physics from Hamburg University. He is currently working on using diffraction to investigate magnetostrictive effects in superconductors.
Graduate Students
Aileen Luo – al2493@cornell.edu
Aileen received her B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2019. Her current research focuses on nano-diffraction imaging of thin films catalyst materials for alkaline-based fuel cells.
Jason Huang – jjh377@cornell.edu
Jason received his B.S. in Nanoengineering from the University of California, San Diego in 2019. His current research is focused on in situ and in operando x-ray studies of sodium ion batteries and electrocatalysts.
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
Yumeng Song- ys432@cornell.edu
Undergraduate Students
Anna Lin – al882@cornell.edu
Anna is a junior in Materials Science and Engineering originally from Cranbury, NJ. She is currently researching x-ray scattering of anion exchange membranes for fuel cells. She also likes to draw cats for fun!
Dogan Tarik Karabay – dk585@cornell.edu
Alumni
Stephanie Matson – MS (Now at LLNL)
Ryan Bouck – MS
Daniel Weinstock – MS
Jiaruo Li – Undergraduate (Now a PhD student at MIT)
Wenxuan Qiu – MS (Now at Applied Materials)
Ziyi Wang – MS (Now a PhD student at Caltech)
Raghav Kumar – Undergraduate
Patrick Ding – Undergraduate
Malia Okamura – Summer REU