Congratulations to our summer 2021 summer graduates!
Jorge Torres Espinosa
research advisor: Amy Connolly
research area: Experimental particle astrophysics
any publications: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.043021
your new job position: Postdoc at Yale Physics Department [https://physics.yale.edu/people/jorge-torres]
Advice for grad students:
"Make sure to take some time off every week and don’t feel guilty in doing so. In my case, taking a break from work made me more productive."
Dmitry Shcherbakov
Research advisor: Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau
Research area: Condensed Matter Experiment
Publications: Raman Spectroscopy, Photocatalytic Degradation, and Stabilization of Atomically Thin Chromium Tri-iodide
Layer- and gate-tunable spin-orbit coupling in a high-mobility few-layer semiconductor
New job position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Carnegie Mellon University
Personal quote:
"study, think and create!"
Lipei Du
research advisor: Ulrich Heinz
research area: Heavy-ion collisions and quark-gluon plasma
publications: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1280397
new job position: Postdoc at McGill University
personal quote: The work will teach you how to do it.
Elan Shatoff
Research Advisor: Ralf Bundschuh
Research Area: Computational Biophysics
Publications:
Structural basis of sequestration of the anti-Shine-Dalgarno sequence in the Bacteroidetes ribosome
Single nucleotide polymorphisms affect RNA-protein interactions at a distance through modulation of RNA secondary structures
Global analysis of protein synthesis in Flavobacterium johnsoniae reveals the use of Kozak-like sequences in diverse bacteria
DNA sequence influences hexasome orientation to regulate DNA accessibility
New job: Bioinformatics Scientist at Stealth Mode biotech startup
Advice for new grad students: A good advisor makes all the difference!
I did not hear back from the following students in time to add them to this news article, but we would still like to congratulate them for their great accomplishment of graduating with a PhD!
Aaron Griffith
Wenjuan Zhang
Franz Utermohlen
Yulu Liu
Yushan Yang
Joseph Adams
Srividya Suresh
Zachary Tuchfeld
Anthony Zingale
Christopher Cappiello
Dongying Wang
Jahmour Givans
Bin Guo
Liping He
Bryan Cardwell
Michael McNelis