People

Professor of Physics
cmarchetti@ucsb.edu
Broida 6235

Graduate Students

Graduate Student
paarthgulati@physics.ucsb.edu
Broida 6212
Graduate Student
austinhopkins@ucsb.edu
Broida 6212
Graduate Student
toshi@ucsb.edu
Graduate Student
divyoj@ucsb.edu
Broida 6228

Undergraduate Students

moleary@umail.ucsb.edu
s_sokolovskiy@ucsb.edu
hengyuan@umail.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

Arthur Hernandez

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

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

Fernando Caballero

Ph.D. DAMTP University of Cambridge, 2020; Postdoctoral Researcher, Hagan Group, Brandeis

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. Research Associate, University of Edinburgh, UK

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; Research Associate, University of Barcelona

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); Researcher at the Chan Zuckerberg BioHub.

Zhihong You

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

Chen Zeng

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

Undergraduate Students

Ryan Lopez

Graduate student at MIT

Luca Scharrer

Graduate student at U. Chicago (Vitelli group)