This page is under construction. If you are a UC Merced physics alumnus/a and we missed you in the list below, please get in touch with Dr. Kinjal Dasbiswas. We would love to hear from you and your current whereabouts!
Undergraduate Physics Major Alumni
B.S. 2022
Nolan Kelly Thesis research: Strubbe lab Current position: Postbaccalaureate researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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Elsa Vazquez Thesis research: Strubbe lab Current position: Postbaccalaureate researcher, UC Merced |
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Jonathan Loera Thesis research: Hratchian lab Current position: PhD student in physics, University of California, Los Angeles |
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Zachary Mauri Thesis research: Pribram-Jones lab Current position: PhD student in materials science and engineering, Stanford University |
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Radoslav Iliev |
B.S. 2021
Tomas Virgen |
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Ernesto Padilla |
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Christina Valletta Thesis research: Beller lab Current position: Ph.D. student at UC Davis (NSF Graduate Research Fellow) |
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Ethan Custodio |
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Grace Newman |
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Matias Lopez |
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Sean Deocampo |
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Robert Gomez |
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Stefan Faaland |
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Ashley Argueta |
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Trevor Gammill |
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Peter Athey |
B.S. 2020
Ibrahim Abu-Hijleh |
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Luis Arteaga-Castaneda |
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Florence Lucey |
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Katie Tyler |
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Jorge Arteaga |
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Erick Cedillo |
B.S. 2019
Steven Nguyen |
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Tony Nguyen Thesis research: Chien Group |
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Ulyses Alvarado Olvera |
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Yogev Gluzman |
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Harrison Mausolff |
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Joshua Roe |
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Angel Rubalcava |
B.S. 2018
Ernesto Alvarado | |
Noah Bessard |
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Jonas Lo |
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Denzal Martin |
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Maria Martinez Thesis research: Xu Lab Current position: Intern at UC Berkeley |
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Joshua Maynard |
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Maeve O'Brien Thesis research: Sharping Lab Current position: Ph.D. student, UC Irvine MSE |
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Jacob Parker Thesis research: Ghosh Lab Current position: Ph.D. student, WSU Physics |
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Daniel Parra |
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Cristian Ramos |
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Diego Tapia Silva |
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De Zhen Zhou |
B.S. 2017
Bieito De La Fuente |
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William Delmas |
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Steven Jones |
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Kyle Kabasares |
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Laura Miller |
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Blaz Serna |
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Najma Zahbihi |
B.S. 2016
Jeremias Gonzalez |
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Janelle Hobbs |
B.S. 2015
Dominic Pellegrino |
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Winnie H. Liang Thesis research: Xu Lab Current position: Graduate student, University of Oregon |
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Alumni prior to 2015
Dr. Leily Kiani |
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Matt Wilson Thesis research: Ghosh Lab Current position: Ph.D. student, UC Riverside Physics |
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John Harvey Paredes |
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Jacky Wan |
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Corinne Gray |
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Patrick Talbot |
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Michael Tennenbaum B.S. 2011 Thesis research: Ghosh Lab Current position: Ph.D. student, Georgia Tech Physics |
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Dr. Jessica Clayton |
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Dr. Richard Inman |
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Nancy Duque |
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Michael Lee |
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Erick Watanabe |
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Bryce Kornreich |
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Jeremy Sanborn |
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Enemisio Cano |
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Michael Lum |
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Tina Kuang |
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Raymond Cheung |
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Robert Puccinelli |
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Alan Blatt |
Ph.D. Program Alumni
Dr. Kuntal Talit |
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Dr. Enrique Guerrero |
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Dr. Mojdeh Banafsheh |
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Dr. Md. Imran Khan |
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Dr. Alessandro Monteros |
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Dr. Benaz Mendewala |
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Dr. Mark Bartolo |
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Dr. Som Sarang |
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Dr. Tom Kim |
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Dr. Tayebeh Riahinasab Ph.D. 2019: Hirst Lab |
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Dr. Joe Lopes Ph.D. 2019, Hirst Lab Current position: Postdoc at Brandeis University |
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Dr. Katerina Nikolaidou Ph.D. 2019: Ghosh lab Current position: Researcher, INESC Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal |
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Dr. Mekena Metcalf |
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Dr. Qiaochu Li Ph.D. 2018, Xu Lab Current position: Software Engineer at Apple's Special Projects Group |
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Dr. Nathan Melton Ph.D. 2018, Hirst Lab Current position: Postdoc at the Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
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Dr. Makiko Quint |
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Dr. Dan Hu |
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Dr. Chai Lor Ph.D. 2015, Hirst Lab Current position: R&D Chemist Intern at DigiLens Inc. |
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Dr. Xiu-Hao Deng |
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Dr. Leily Kiani Ph.D. 2015, Sharping Lab Current position: LLNL National Ignition Facility and Photon Science Fiber Technologies Group |
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Dr. Ron Pandolfi |
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Dr. Andrea Rodarte |
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Dr. Tessa Pinon |
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Dr. Lam Nguyen Ph.D. 2012, Hirst Lab Current position: Postdoc in the Jensen lab at Caltech |
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Dr. Luis Martinez |
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Dr. Chenji Gu |
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Dr. Alison Huff |
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Dr. Alessandro Castelli |
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Dr. Jonathan Thompson |
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Dr. Jacob Pate |
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Dr. Katherine Copenhagen |
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Dr. David Ando |
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Dr. Igor Goncharenko Ph.D. 2010, Gopinathan Group Current position: Team Lead - Data Science at Sberbank |