Principal Investigator

Dr. Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada
Assistant Professor of Physics
Email: srimatar@wfu.edu
Office: 212 Olin Physical Laboratory
Tel: +1 336-758-2699
PhD in Physics from Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Postdoc: Italian Institute of Technology, University of Montreal, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Research Interests: advanced optical spectroscopy of emerging semiconductors, exciton physics, ultrafast spectroscopy, material spectroscopy with entangled photons.
Staff

Dr. Burak Ucer
Research Associate Professor
Email: ucerkb@wfu.edu
Office: Olin Physics Laboratory
Tel: +1 336-758-4989
PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Rochester (NY).
Research Interests: Ultrafast phenomena in solid state materials.

Dr. Angika Bulbul
Postdoctoral Researcher
Email: bulbula@wfu.edu
Office: Olin Physics Laboratory
PhD in Optical engineering from Ben Gurion University, Israel.
Research Interests: Optical imaging, optical instrumentation
Graduate Students

Katherine A Koch
2022 – Present
Email: kochka22@wfu.edu
Office: 207 Olin Physics Laboratory
BS (Physics) from Susquehanna University (PA)
Research Interests: Ultrafast dynamics in metal halide perovskites

Evan J Kumar
2022 – Present
Email: kumaej22@wfu.edu
Office: 207 Olin Physics Laboratory
BS (Physics) from University of Michigan (MI)
Research Interests: Quantum enhanced nonlinear spectroscopy
Undergraduate Students
- Josiah Brinson (2022 – Present)
- Alex Evju (Spring 2023)
Lab Alumni
- Esteban Rojas-Gatjens, visiting graduate student from Georgia Tech (May 2022 – Aug 2022)
- David Otto Tiede, visiting graduate student from CSIC, Seville (Spain) (Aug 2022 – Dec 2022)
- Lorenzo Uboldi, visiting graduate student from Politecnico di Milano (Oct 2022 – March 2023)