Margaret Murnane
Zhang
Zhe comes from Shanghai, China. He received his B.A. in optical information and technology from Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China in 2015. He started his Ph.D. program at the Tongji University in the fall of 2015 and worked in EUV mulitilayers and EUV optical systems. He joined the Kapteyn-Murnane group at the beginning of 2019 as a visiting student, and from then he worked in the imaging team. He is a basketball player/fan, and also enjoys playing computer games and cooking when he has spare time.
Liu
Allison grew up in Superior, CO and went to Fairview High School in Boulder. Currently, she is studying Applied Mathematics with an emphasis in physics and computer science. She began working in the KM Group in summer of 2017 and has really enjoyed doing research. Outside of the lab and her studies, she loves to rock climb and plays on CU Boulder’s Women’s Ultimate Frisbee team.
Jacobs
Matt was born and raised in Norman, Oklahoma. In 2010 he joined the Air Force and became an avionics technician. He met his wife Rie while stationed in Japan and returned to the US to attend school at CU Boulder after finishing his enlistment. A senior, he is expecting to graduate May 2021 with BAs in physics and astronomy. Working with the imaging team, Matt has developed both polarization and phase retrieval projects. He hopes to attend graduate school to continue his studies in AMO. He enjoys cooking, gaming, and hiking in his spare time.
Zhang
Yingchao grew up in Qingdao, China. He went to Xian Jiaotong University and received Bachelor of Science degree there in 2016. During his undergraduate study, he studied low dimensional materials using optical techniques such as near field optical microscope. Now, he works on angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and tries to reveal the novel properties of quantum materials. Besides research, he also has many other hobbies including music, movies, Ping-pong, hiking and etc..
You
Wenjing grew up in Yangzhou, China and graduated with B.S. in Physics at Nanjing University in 2015. She joined the KM group in the summer of 2016. She is now focusing her research on photoemission spectroscopy. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and hiking.
Wang
Bin Wang grew up in Yellow Mountain in China. He pursued undergraduate studies at University of Science and Technology of China. While there, he performed theoretical research on spin transportation in Double-Quantum-Dot systems. After graduating in 2016 with a B.S. in physics with honors, he joined the KM group in the fall of 2016 to work on nanoimaging. Outside of science, Bin enjoys reading books, doing outdoor activities, cooking & baking.
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