Faculty

First NameLast NameTitleDepartmentResearch FocusEmailCollege
ShamsulArafinAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringShamsul Arafin pursues experimental research in compound III-V semiconductor nanotechnology for materials and devices. His research interests center around classical devices such as diode lasers, and LEDs; quantum devices including single-photon-emitters and -detectors; as well as classical/quantum photonic integrated circuits. arafin.1@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
L. Robert BakerAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Chemistry & BiochemistryProf. Baker specializes in ultrafast XUV and soft x-ray spectroscopy to study charge and spin dynamics in semiconductors with applications in photocatalysis and fast information processing. He is also the director of the National eXtreme Ultrafast Science Facility (NeXUS).baker.2364@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
ShankerBalasubramaniamProfessorDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineeringshanker.32@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
Marc BockrathProfessorDepartment of PhysicsMarc Bockrath is studying quantum dots in two-dimensional materials towards realizing novel qubits as well as their higher-dimensional analogs called qudits.bockrath.31@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
LeonardBrillsonProfessorDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringProf Brillson’s research group pursues a broad science and engineering program in the structure and properties of electronic materials surfaces and interfaces at the atomic and nanometer scales, emphasizing wide band gap semiconductors for microelectronics and optoelectronics, semiconductor heterostructures for renewable energy generation, semiconductor transistors for bioelectronics sensors, thin film dielectrics for insulating gate structures, and complex oxides for spintronic, communications, radar, and ultrasensitive antenna applications.brillson.1@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
Rafael BrüschweilerProfessorDepartment of Chemistry & BiochemistryProf. Rafael Brüschweiler’s research focuses on biophysical studies of metabolomics, protein structure, dynamics, and function by NMR spectroscopy and high-performance computation. The lab uses sophisticated radio-frequency pulse sequences at ultrahigh magnetic fields that utilize coherent and incoherent spin magnetization transfers and relaxation reporting about ps – ms dynamics processes of biological molecules and their assemblies in solution.bruschweiler.1@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
EnamChowdhuryAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Materials Science and Engineeringchowdhury.24@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
LouisDiMauroProfessorDepartment of Physicsdimauro.6@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Science
VickyDoan-NguyenAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Materials Science and Engineeringdoan-nguyen.1@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
SachinGautamAssistant ProfessorDepartment of MathematicsSachin’s research focus is on representation theory of quantum groups, and related integrable systems, arising from lattice models of statistical mechanics.gautam.42@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
MaryamGhazisaeidiAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Materials Science and Engineeringghazisaeidi.1@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
JoshuaGoldbergerProfessorDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistrygoldberger.4@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
TylerGrassmanAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Materials Science and Engineeringgrassman.5@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
JayGuptaProfessorDepartment of PhysicsProf. Gupta's research group focuses on developing scanning tunneling microscope techniques to deterministically place and control single quantum point defects in a variety of materials, ranging from bulk semiconductors to 2D insulators.gupta.208@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
P. ChrisHammelProfessorDepartment of PhysicsThe Hammel lab develops and applies techniques for ultra-sensitive detection of magnetic resonance to the study of magnets and multi-component spintronic materials. We are particularly interested in probing and understanding the high frequency magnetic dynamics of ferro- and antiferromagnets with a goal of controlling properties of small numbers of spins and discovering and enhancing applications of magnets to spin transport and spin-based information science.hammel.7@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
PooyaHatamiAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringDr. Pooya Hatami is an assistant professor in the theory group at the Computer Science and Engineering department at OSU. His research interests lie broadly in theoretical computer science, particularly pseudorandomness and randomness in computational complexity. hatami.2@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
JohnHerbertProfessorChemistry & Biochemistryherbert.44@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
JosephHeremansProfessorDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineeringheremans.1@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
ChristopherHillProfessorDepartment of Physicshill.1369@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
EzekielJohnston-HalperinProfessorDepartment of PhysicsProf. Johnston-Halperin’s research focuses on studies of coherent spin and magnetization dynamics, synthesis of magnetic materials, and prototype device development for spintronics and quantum information applications.johnston-halperin.1@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
RoyJoshuaProfessorDepartment of MathematicsJoshua and his collaborators work on aspects of error correcting codes with applications to quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computation. He is an algebraic geometer/K-theorist by training, and is primarily focused on applying higher dimensional algebraic varieties and techniques from algebraic geometry to construct high performance error-correcting codes for use in fault-tolerant quantum computation.joshua.1@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
RolandKawakamiProfessorDepartment of Physicskawakami.15@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
ThomasKerlerProfessorDepartment of MathematicsProf. Kerler’s research focuses on the structure of quantum algebras, their representation theory, quantum invariants in low-dimensional topology, and other mathematical topics related to topological quantum field theory.kerler.2@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
SanjayKrishnaProfessorDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringThe Krishna Infrared Detector (KIND) lab designs, grows, fabricates and tests advanced semiconductor detector architecture for a variety of applications ranging from remote sensing, imaging, lidar, optical communications and quantum information sciences. krishna.53@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
GregoryLafyatisAssociate ProfessorDepartment of PhysicsLafyatis.2@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
ChunNingLauProfessorDepartment of PhysicsLau.232@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
YuanmingLuAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Physicslu.1435@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
SamirMathurProfessorDepartment of Physicsmathur.16@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
DavidMcCombProfessorDepartment of Materials Science and EngineeringDavid W. McComb is the Director of the Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis (CEMAS), an Ohio Research Scholar, and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. His research in Advanced Electron Microscopy techniques targets the development and application of electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) as a sub-nanometer scale probe of chemistry, structure, and bonding. He has extensive experience in the application of EELS to the study of problems in solid-state chemistry and materials science including structural and compositional variations in high-k oxides, short range magnetic order in transition metal oxides, interfaces in fuel cells, photovoltaics and multiferroics. He is currently developing methods for variable temperature high-energy resolution EELS for the study of phonons and magnons in the scanning transmission electron microscope.mccomb.29@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
TawfiqMusahAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringDr. Musah’s research focuses on scaling data rates and improving the reliability of ultra-high-speed communication and sensing circuits and systems in advanced CMOS process technologies and beyond. This has extended his research interest to include alternative and emerging computing architectures, low-latency physical layer security and hardware-efficient sensing algorithms.musah.3@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
RobertoMyers ProfessorDepartment of Materials Science and Engineeringmyers.1079@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
DavidNippaResearch ScientistElectroScience LabDavid’s work involves exploring novel ways to apply quantum photonic techniques in microwave photonics systems. nippa.2@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
DavidPenneysAssociate ProfessorDepartment of MathematicsProf. Penneys conducts research in operator algebras, quantum algebra, and category theory with applications to topological order in theoretical condensed matter physics.penneys.2@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
MohitRanderiaProfessorDepartment of Physicsranderia.1@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
RonaldReanoProfessorDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringProf. Reano’s research focuses on chipscale integrated photonics for innovation in sensors, communications systems, and computing.reano.1@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
BrianSkinnerAssistant ProfessorDepartment of PhysicsBrian is a theorist who is broadly interested in dynamical and transport phenomena in quantum many-body systems. One line of his work considers random quantum processes and is focused on identifying phase transitions that can occur in the dynamics of quantum information.skinner.352@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
KevinSinghAssistant ProfessorDepartment of PhysicsThe Singh group will focus on building next-generation quantum devices and quantum information processors to explore the ways the universe operates, particularly at the scale of individual atoms.kevinsingh@physics.osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
AlexanderSokolovAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Chemistry & BiochemistryThe Sokolov group develops and applies new theoretical methods in quantum chemistry to simulate the excited-state and spectroscopic properties of chemical systems with complex electronic structure. Research projects relevant to the mission of CQISE include the theoretical studies of molecular and solid-state qubits with accessible spin.sokolov.8@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
MichaelSumptionProfessorDepartment of Materials Science and Engineeringsumption.3@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
FernandoTeixeiraProfessorElectroScience LabFernando’s interests lie in scientific computing for quantum-optical metamaterials, quantum plasmonics, and macroscopic QED.teixeira.5@osu.eduCollege of Engineering
ChristineThomasProfessorDepartment of Chemistry & BiochemistrySynthesis of well-defined paramagnetic transition metal complexes and exploration of their electronic structure, spin states, and magnetic properties using EPR spectroscopy, SQUID magnetometry, and computational methods.thomas.3877@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
NandiniTrivediProfessorDepartment of Physicstrivedi.15@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
ClaudiaTurroProfessorDepartment of Chemistry & BiochemistryDesign and investigation of the properties and time-resolved dynamics of new photomagnetic materials containing transition metal complexes that undergo spin transitions upon excitation with visible light.turro.1@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
CaseyWadeAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Chemistry & BiochemistryThe Wade Lab focuses on the synthesis and characterization metal-organic materials and molecules. They use a variety of solution and solid-state characterization techniques to elucidate structure and properties, including X-ray diffraction, gas porosimetry, thermogravimetric analysis, ICP-OES, cyclic voltammetry, and NMR, IR, and UV-Vis spectroscopies.wade.521@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
FengyuanYangProfessorDepartment of PhysicsFengyuan Yang's group grows high quality epitaxial films of magnetic and topological materials and investigate their spin transport, high frequency dynamics, magnonics properties at room to very low temperatures.yang.1006@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
JosephZadroznyAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Chemistry and BiochemistryThe Zadrozny lab studies nuclear and electron spin dynamics in metal-containing molecules. Our multidisciplinary effort entails synthetic chemistry, physical inorganic methods, and magnetic resonance spectroscopies, among other techniques.zadrozny.13@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences
ShiyuZhangAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Chemistry & BiochemistryThe Zhang research group focuses on the synthesis of molecular organic/inorganic compounds with interesting properties. Many of them contains unpaired electrons, therefore, could be potentially applied toward quantum computing or quantum sensing.zhang.8941@osu.eduCollege of Arts and Sciences