MEMBERS
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
L. Robert Baker
PhD: University of California, Berkeley, 2012 Office: Newman Wolfrom 2110
BS: Brigham Young University, 2007 Phone: 614 - 292 - 2088
Email: baker.2364@osu.edu
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
Adam Jenkins
Joined: October 2023
BS: University of California, Davis 2016
PhD: University of California, Davis 2021
Postdoc: Shafaat Group, OSU, 2021-2023
Research Area: XAS/XRS end station for solid- and solution-phase measurements, NeXUS Facility
Conner Dykstra
Joined: January 2024
BS: Northwestern University, 2014
PhD: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2023
Research Area: Ultrafast Soft X-ray Absorption and Magnetic Circular Dichroism, Nanoscale Chiral and Magnetic Materials
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Tomaz Neves Garcia
Joined: August 2021
BS: Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil & University of Bristol, U.K. 2015
MS: Universidad de Valladolid, Spain 2017
Research Area: Catalysis and Surfaces
Harshad Gajapathy
Joined: January 2020
BS: Indian Institute of Science, 2019
Research Area: Ultrafast Soft X-Ray and Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy
Ananya Patnaik
Joined: January 2020
MS: Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, 2018
BS: Gargi College, University of Delhi, 2016
Research Area: Ultrafast Soft X-ray Spectroscopy
Quansong (Sam) Zhu
Joined: January 2020
BS: Zhejiang University, 2019
Research Area: Photoelectrocatalysis / Spectroscopy
Jaclyn Rebstock
Joined: January 2021
MS: The College of William and Mary, 2020
BS: Minnesota State University, 2015
Allen Partin
Joined: January 2022
BS: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021
Subhajit Das
Joined: January 2023
MS: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India, 2020
BS: University of Calcutta, India, 2018
Research Interest: Photoelectrocatalysis / Spectroscopy
Emma Schell
Joined: January 2024
BA: College of Wooster, 2023
Research Area: Plasmonic Nanoparticles
Anshuman Samanta
Joined: January 2024
BSc: Vidyasagar University, 2021
MSc: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay), 2023
Research Area: Sum Frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy
Piyush Anil Kumar Sharma
Joined: January 2024
BS/MS: National Institute of Technology Surat/Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, 2023
Research Area: Synthesis of Nanomaterials and Spectroscopy
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
ALUMNI
Former Graduate Students
- Emily Hruska (01/2019 - 06/2023)
Current Position: Postdoc with Dr. Birgitta Schultze-Bernhardt at TU Graz, Austria
- Savini Bandaranayake (01/2018 - 12/2022)
Current Position: Postdoc with Dr. Krupa Ramasesha at Sandia National Lab
- Sam Johnson (01/2021 - 06/2022)
- Stephen Londo (01/2017 - 12/2021)
Current Position: Postdoc with Professor Légaré at INRS, Québec, Canada
- Hongyu (Amy) Shang (01/2017 - 09/2021)
Current Position: Secondary School Affiliated to Renmin University of China
- Spencer Wallentine (01/2017 - 05/2021)
Current Position: STAR Dynamics Corporation
- Somnath Biswas (01/2016 - 05/2020)
Current Position: Postdoc with Professor Scholes at Princeton
- Elizabeth Fugate (01/2015 - 12/2019)
Current Position: Postdoc with Professor Personick at Wesleyan, CT
- Yutichai Mueanngern (01/2015 - 12/2019)
Current Position: Postdoc with Professor Jeong Young Park at KAIST
- Jakub Husek (01/2015 - 05/2019)
Current Position: Intel
Former Postdocs
- Dr. Ganghua Deng (09/2020 - 08/2022)
Current Position: Associate Professor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
- Dr. Xin Yang (11/2014 - 01/2018)
Current Position: Postdoc with Professor Shiyu Zhang at OSU
- Dr. Anthony Cirri (07/2016 - 08/2017)
Current Position: Postdoc at Stony Brook University
Former Researchers
- Ethan Crane (05/2023-08/2023) - Undergraduate Researcher
- Emily Baschab (05/2022 - 07/2022) - REU Undergraduate Researcher
- Meiling Spelic (06/2019 - 05/2022) - Undergraduate Researcher
Current Position: Graduate student at Georgetown University
- Runiya Juni Dasgupta (06/2019 - 08/2019) - Undergraduate Researcher
- Emma Montgomery (06/2018 - 12/2018) - Undergraduate Researcher
- Nathan Pimental (06/2018 - 12/2018) - Undergraduate Researcher
- Mathew Clement (06/2018 - 12/2018) - Undergraduate Researcher
- Scott Garner (05/2017 - 05/2018) - Undergraduate Researcher
Current Position: Graduate student at UC Berkeley
- Skylar Ware (09/2016 - 07/2018) - Undergraduate Researcher
Current Position: Graduate student at Cal Tech
- Josh Graham (03/2017 - 06/2018) - Undergraduate Researcher
Current Position: Masters of Education student at OSU
- Allen Zhu (Summer '15,'16) - High School Intern
Current Position: Undergraduate student at Emory
- Kyle Mincheff (02/2016 - 06/2016) - Undergraduate Researcher
- Quinn Baker (11/2014 - 08/2015) - Research Assistant
Current Position: Medical student at Oklahoma University