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.
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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