People

Professor of Physics
cmarchetti@ucsb.edu
Broida 6235

Postdoctoral Researchers

Postdoctoral Researcher, NWO Rubicon Grant Awardee
dimitris@ucsb.edu
Broida 6213

Graduate Students

Graduate Student
pathma@ucsb.edu
Broida 6212
Graduate Student
toshi@ucsb.edu
Broida 6212
Graduate Student
divyoj@ucsb.edu
Broida 6212

Undergraduate Students

danielfischel@ucsb.edu
youxing@ucsb.edu

Alumni

Graduate Students

Aphrodite Ahmadi

Ph.D. 2008

Sitichoke Amnuanpol

Ph.D. 2009. Lecturer in Physics, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

Shiladitya Banerjee

Ph.D. 2013, Assistant professor of Physics, Carnegie Mellon

University Winner of the American Physical Society 2013 Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Biological Physics

Panayotis Benetatos

Ph.D. 2000; Assistant Professor, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Lee-Wen Chen

Ph.D. 1996; Senior Scientist, Peregrine Semiconductor, San Diego, CA

Michael Czajkowski

Ph.D. 2018; Research Associate at Georgia Tech

Michael Faleski

Ph.D. 2001; Professor of Physics, Delta College, MI

Paarth Gulati

Ph.D. 2025; Postdoctoral Fellow Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, US

Arthur Hernandez

Ph.D. 2023; Post-doctorate with Luca Giomi at Leiden University, Netherlands. 

Austin Hopkins

Ph.D. 2025; Postdoctoral Researcher with Mattia Serra at University of California, San Diego

Prashant Mishra

Ph.D. 2017; Data Scientist & Machine Learning Researcher, Promodomo, BV, Netherlands

Adam Patch

Ph.D. 2018; Data Scientist, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT.

Preeti Sahu

Ph.D. 2020; Research Associate at IST, Austria

Suraj Shankar

Suraj Shankar, Ph.D. 2019; Harvard Junior Fellow.

Winner of the of the American Physical Society 2020 Dissertation Award in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Supurna Sinha

Ph.D. 1992; Professor, Raman Institute, Bangalore, India

Kazage Utuje

Ph.D. 2017; Instructor, Manlius Pebble Hill, Syracuse

Xingbo Yang

Ph.D. 2015. Research Associate at Harvard University

Postdoctoral Researchers

Aparna Baskaran

Ph.D. University of Florida Gainesville, 2006; Associate Professor of Physics, Brandeis University

Fridtjof Brauns

PhD LMU Münich 2021; Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institutes for Physics of Complex Systems (PKS) and for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (CBG).

Fernando Caballero

Ph.D. Cambridge University 2020; Researcher at Citadel Securities, London, UK.

Yaouen Fily

Ph.D. Université Francois Rabelais, Tours, France, 2009; Assistant Professor of Physics, Florida Atlantic University

Silke Henkes

Ph.D. Brandeis University, 2007; Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK

Ki Ho Lee

Ph.D. Ohio State; Professor of Applied Physics, Dankuk University, Korea

William Kung

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2004; Senior Director of Operations and Strategic Planning, Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts, Northwestern University & The Art Institute of Chicago

Marco Leoni

Ph.D. Bristol 2011; Staff researcher, Université Paris VI

Benjamin Loewe

Ph.D. Georgia Tech 2017; Assistant Professor, Universidad Catòlica de Chile.

Oksana Manyuhina

Ph.D. Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2009; Senior Design Engineer, Sioux LIME, Netherlands

Jan Meinke

Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2002; Research Scientist, Forschungszentrum, Jülich, Germany

Alan Middleton

Ph.D. Princeton 1990; Professor of Physics, Syracuse University

Shradha Mishra

Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2008; Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India

Michael Moshe

Ph.D. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2015; Assistant Professor of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Matteo Paoluzzi

Ph.D. Rome 2012; Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics, Sapienza University of Rome.

Amanda Parker

Ph.D. UC David, 2018; Computational Scientist, SimBioSys, Inc., Chicago

Thomas Prellberg

Ph.D. Virginia Tech. 1991; Professor of Mathematics, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK

Mariapia Riva

Ph.D. Milan 1998

Karl Saunders

Ph.D. University of Oregon, 2001; Professor of Physics, California. Polytechnic State University

Jennifer Schwarz

Ph.D. Harvard, 2002; Professor of Physics, Syracuse University

Pragya Srivastava

Ph.D. Bangalore, 2014; Research associate, University of Pennsylvania

Daniel Sussman

Ph.D UIUC, 2012; Assistant Professor of Physics, Emory University

David Yllanes

Ph.D. University of Madrid 2011 (winner of 2013 Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics, co-mentored with Mark Bowick); Professor,  Instituto de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Zhihong You

Ph.D. University of Leiden 2019; Professor, Department of Physics, Xiamen University, China.

Chen Zeng

Ph.D. Cornell 1993; Professor of Physics, George Washington University

Undergraduate Students

Xingjian Hou

BA+MS Cambridge University, UK, 2024; Graduate Student, Princeton University

Ryan Lopez

BS 2022; Graduate Student, MIT

Link Morgan

BS 2021; Graduate Student, University of Colorado at Boulder

Myles O'Leary

BS 2024; Graduate Student, Princeton University

Luca Scharrer

BS 2022; Graduate Student, University of Chicago

Sergio Sokolovskiy

BS 2024; Graduate Student, Columbia University

Heng (Henry) Yuan

BS 2025; Graduate Student, UC Santa Barbara