ORCID: 0009-0009-3041-2771
PI: Shaowei Li (lab)
Key Areas of Expertise: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy; Single-Molecule Vibrational Microscopy/Spectroscopy; Single-Molecule Chemistry on Surfaces

Liya is a Ph.D. student of the Materials Science and Engineering Program working on the statics and dynamics of single molecules on the metal surface with the Laser-Coupled STM in Prof. Shaowei Li's lab. He received his B.S. in Physics from Wuhan University, China in 2019 and then worked as a research assistant in Prof. Chendong Zhang's group, where he gained instrumentation skills through building a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope. Liya's main research interest is in surface and interfacial physical and chemical processes including charge/spin transfer at the molecule-semiconductor interfaces and single-molecule dynamics on surfaces.

ORCID: 0000-0002-7028-7671
PI: Alex Frano (lab)
Key Areas of Expertise: perovskite oxides, ion implantation, x-ray synchrotron techniques, pulsed laser deposition, nickelates, nanofabrication

Robin Glefke earned her B.S. in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is now pursuing at PhD in Physics PhD at UC San Diego. She is working in Alex Frañó’s Lab, studying perovskite oxides to fine tune their magnetic and electronic properties at the nanoscale via Helium ion implantation. She specializes in advanced x-ray characterization at synchrotron user facilities across the world, including spectroscopy, nano-diffraction, domain dynamics, and magnetic scattering.

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PI: Monica Allen (lab)
Key Areas of Expertise: nanofabrication, quantum materials, scanning probe microscopy

Lingyuan Lyu is pursuing a PhD in Physics at UC San Diego, and she is now part of Professor Monica Allen’s lab. Her research focuses on van der Waals heterostructures, including graphene, twisted transition-metal dichalcogenides, and metal-organic framework hybrids. By combining nanofabrication, device engineering, and microwave impedance microscopy, her work explores correlated and topological quantum phases at the nanoscale.

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PI: Josh Figueroa (lab)
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PI: Leonid Butov (lab)
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PI: Josh Figueroa (lab)
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PI: Tod Pascal (lab)
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ORCID: 0009-0008-1575-9753
PI: Seth Cohen (lab)
Key Areas of Expertise: Metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, surface chemistry

Srijita is a Ph.D. student in Prof. Seth Cohen’s lab in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on probing the external surfaces of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) using reactive probe molecules to understand their surface chemistry and reactivity. She earned her B.S. (Honors) from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India, and her M.S. from IIT Indore, India.

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PI: Alina Schimpf (lab)
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PI: Josh Figueroa (lab)
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ORCID: 0009-0008-4231-7184
PI: Josh Figueroa (lab)
Key Areas of Expertise: Organometallic Chemistry, Chemical Synthesis

Erin Lewis is pursuing a PhD in Chemistry at UC San Diego. Prior to joining UCSD, she received her B.S. in Chemistry from UC Santa Barbara. She is now part of Prof. Joshua Figueroa's lab, where her research focuses on the stabilization of highly reactive main group species via sterically encumbered and electron-rich transition metal fragments.

ORCID: 0000-0002-0851-655X
PI: Josh Figueroa (lab)
Key Areas of Expertise: inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, synthesis, catalysis, structure and bonding

Eric Yang is a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Joshua Figueroa at UC San Diego studying highly reactive molecules and clusters stabilized by sterically encumbering ligands. Prior to joining UCSD he obtained a DPhil in inorganic chemistry from the University of Oxford, completing his thesis on the chemistry of the cyaphide ion with Prof. Jose Goicoechea.