Dr. Ryan Siebenaller Graduates with SPACE-MAT support
Chowdhury group PhD candidate Ryan Siebenaller has successfully completed his Ph.D last week, in the Materials Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University. Her doctoral research uncovers many exciting structural and non-linear optical properties of a class of van…
Dr. Emma DeAngelis graduates with SPACE-MAT support
Chowdhury group PhD candidate Emma DeAngelis has successfully completed her Ph.D last week, in the Materials Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University. Her doctoral research uncovers how femtosecond laser pulses can generate point defects, structural disorder, and even…
Parker Vaughan wins Best undergraduate Poster Award at Annual LaserNetUS meeting 2025
Parker Vaughan, an undergraduate researcher at Chowdhury lab, recently attended the 2025 annual meeting of the lasernetUS in Phoenix AZ to present his research poster titled, “Designing a Multi-Pass Amplifier to Probe Extreme Conditions in Laser Science”. There were nearly…
Our research on the February Cover of Optical Materials Express
Fig. caption Ultrafast laser damage in multilayer dielectrics forms a blister: (top) Cross-sectional SEM shows a single pulse non-thermally damaging a lower bandgap layer, vaporizing it, and stressing upper layers into a blister. (Bottom right) atomic force microscopy (AFM) image…
Chowdhury lab part of 2024 AFRL Center of Excellence SPACE-MAT
Chowdhury lab is now part of SPACE-MAT, an AFRL Center of Excellence (jointly funded by AFRL & AFOSR) with $5.5 million funding over 5 years to explore how materials change in space, especially in low earth orbit (LEO). As part…
Dr. Michael Tripepi joins Hillsdale College as an Assistant Professor of Physics
Dr. Michael Tripepi graduated in 2022, and began his career as an assistant professor of Physics at Hillsdale College, MI in the fall of 2022. His PhD was on studying strong field nonlinearity in solids in the near to mid-infrared…
Dr. Noah Talisa at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at Johns Hopkins
Dr. Noah Talisa graduated in December 2020. His specialty was generating and characterizing few-cycle laser pulses and capturing few cycle laser solid damage dynamics. He is currently a scientist at the APL.
Dr. Kevin Werner at BAE Systems as Principal Laser Scientist: 2019
Dr. Kevin Werner Graduated from Chowdhury Group in January 2019. His PhD thesis is titled, “Ultrafast Mid-Infrared Laser-Solid Interactions”, where he studied strong field interaction in mid-IR wavelengths with materials like Si, Ge, ZnSe, ZnS, etc. His key research and…
Dr. Kyle Kafka receives Alexander Glass Award
At the recently concluded 49th SPIE Laser Damage, Boulder, CO, Dr. Kafka received the prestigious Alexander Glass Best Oral Presentation Award for the 2016 SPIE Laser Damage Conference, for his PhD research in Chowdhury group on few cycle pulse laser…
Dr. Drake Austin Joins Agostini-DiMauro group for Postdoctoral Research
Recent graduate (August 2017) from Chowdhury Group, Dr. Drake Austin joins Agostini-DiMauro Group for postdoctoral research on strong field laser matter interaction. His Dissertation was titled “Semiconductor Surface Modification using Mid-Infrared, Femtosecond Laser Pulses” in which he presented his pioneering…