Alumni

CDAC Students and Postdocs at NNSA Labs

  • 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-)

CDAC Student and Postdoc Alumni

  • James Patterson (Illinois, 2004)

  • Raja Chellappa (Nevada-Reno, 2004)

  • Wendy Mao (Chicago, 2005)

  • Jenny Pehl (Berkeley, 2005)

  • Tabitha Swan-Wood (Caltech, 2005)

  • Sergio Speziale (Princeton, 2006)

  • Alexander Papandrew (Caltech, 2006)

  • Nenad Velisavljevic (Alabama–Birmingham, 2006)

  • Emre Selvi (Texas Tech, 2007)

  • Joanna Dodd (Caltech, 2007)

  • Matthew Lucas (Caltech, 2008)

  • Resul Aksoy (Texas Tech, 2008)

  • Lowell Miyagi (Berkeley, 2009)

  • Chris Seagle (Chicago, 2009)

  • Bin Chen (Illinois, 2009)

  • Zhu Mao (Princeton, 2009)

  • Janelle Jenkins (Arizona State, 2009)

  • Lyci George (Florida International, 2010)

  • Michael Winterrose (Caltech, 2010)

  • Erin Oelker (Arizona State, 2010)

  • Arianna Gleason (Berkeley, 2010)

  • Yahya Al-Khatatbeh (New Mexico State, 2010)

  • Susannah Dorfman (Princeton, 2011)

  • Xinyang Chen (Michigan, 2011)

  • Daniel Reaman (Ohio State, 2011)

  • Wenli Bi (Washington University, 2011)

  • Jeffrey Carter (Illinois, 2011)

  • Kathryn Brown (Illinois, 2012)

  • Wen-Pin Hsieh (Illinois, 2012)

  • Samrat Amin (Arizona State, 2012)

  • Reed Patterson (Alabama-Birmingham, 201x)

  • Yu Lin (Stanford, 2012)

  • Rostislav Hrubiak (Florida International, 2012)

  • Matt Armentrout (UCLA, 2012)

  • Walter Uhoya (Alabama-Birmingham, 2013)

  • Jane Kanitpanyacharoen (UC-Berkeley, 2013)

  • Jeffrey Finklestein (Princeton, 2013)

  • Andrew Stemshorn (Alabama-Birmingham, 2014)

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

  • Chris Berg (Illinois, 2014)

  • Yun-Yuan Chang (Northwestern, 2014)

  • Pamela Kaercher (UC-Berkeley, 2014)

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

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

  • Emma Rainey (UCLA, 2015) Postdoctoral, Applied Physics Laboratory

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

  • Max Bishop (Alabama-Birmingham, 2015)

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

  • Greg Hohensee (Illinois, 2015)

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

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

  • Zhixue Du (Yale, 2015) Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution

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

  • Jeff Pigott (Ohio State, 2015) (Postdoctoral, LANL)

  • Jeff Montgomery (Alabama-Birmingham, 2015) (LLNL)

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

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

  • Josh Townsend (Northwestern, 2016) (SNL)

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

  • Will Shaw (Illinois, 2016) (LLNL)

  • Andrew Shamp (Buffalo) 2017 (NNSA HQ – LLNL)

  • Bethany Chidester (Chicago, 2017) (SNL)

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

  • 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Cade Vallero (UIC, 2023)

  • David Goeckner (UIC, 2023)

CDAC / Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellows

Michael Furlanetto (LANL)

  • Jung-Fu Lin (LLNL)

  • Amy Lazicki (LLNL) Luke Shulenberger (SNL)

  • Ellisios Stavrou (LLNL)

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

Previous Partners

• 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