People

Principal Investigator

Roberto Myers

Professor of Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, and Physics

The Ohio State University | myers.1079@osu.edu | 614-547-9771

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Postdoctoral Researchers


Graduate Students


Md Mohsinur Rahman Adnan

Adnan obtained his bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2016 and his masters degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) in 2019. He started his career as a Lecturer of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology back in 2016, where he is currently an Assistant Professor (on leave).  He started his journey at the OSU as a Fall 2019 intake for his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Adnan joined MyersGroup back in Fall of 2019. He works on Optoelectronic Characterization of Wide Bandgap Materials and Devices. He has been contributing heavily on the computational and modeling side of the “Spectral Electric Field Mapping” project. He also works in collaboration with Prof. Enam A Chowdhury on Ultrafast High intensity Laser Pulse Interaction with Materials at Femto Solid Laboratory.  There he performs experiments and carries out modeling studies to understand the dynamics of creation of Warm Dense Matter (WDM) phase of planet-building materials.

Office: 0133 Fontana Laboratories, 140 West 19th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210,

Phone: (347) 547-5785, Email: adnan.14@buckeyemail.osu.edu


Alexandra Fonseca

Alexandra obtained her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez Campus in May 2021. There she worked with the synthesis and characterization of lignin-based polymers for photovoltaics applications as well as the synthesis of nano-treated alloys. She joined the Myers group in August 2021 where she is currently working on molecular beam epitaxy of thin films for exploring electronic, optical, and magentic properties of low dimensional defects, including growth of II-VI and magnetic oxide semiconductors.

Office: 0133 Fontana Laboratories, 140 West 19th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210,

Phone: (787) 538-0384, Email: fonseca.35@buckeyemail.osu.edu


Alexander Blackston

Alexander obtained his B.S. in Physics from Marietta College in May 2022, where he helped research adsorbate induced effects on surface resistivity in gold thin films. He joined the Myers group in August 2022 where he works in our optical lab and is gaining skills in photocurrent spectroscopy, microelectronic device processing, and conducting non-local spin current measurements at low temperatures.”

Office: 0133 Fontana Laboratories, 140 West 19th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210,

Phone:(740)-304-7442, Email: blackston.18@buckeyemail.osu.edu

 


 

Lauren (Lolo) Jones

Lolo earned her B.A. in Physics from New York University in May 2022, with a research background in acoustic imaging and signal processing. She joined the OSU Physics department in August 2022, where she started working on characterizing meta-materials using Terahertz spectroscopy. In April 2024, she joined the Myers group and continues to enhance her skills in Terahertz spectroscopy and optical alignment for complex systems.

Office: 0133 Fontana Laboratories, 140 West 19th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210,

Phone: Email: jones.7973@buckeyemail.osu.edu

 


 

 


Undergraduates 

Christian Allen

Christian is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Ohio State and is expected to graduate in December 2025. Joining for the summer of 2024, Christian is learning different aspects of the materials science realm within the Myers Group by working in multiple labs, which are the Optics lab and the Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) lab. He assists with tasks and gets an in depth look at how to read and assemble and assess the functionality of different objects such as the MBE equipment, optics tables with lasers, and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM).

Email: allen.2666@buckeyemail.osu.edu


Alumni

Darpan Verma, Materials Science and Eng. PhD Alumnus; Intel Corp.

Elline Hettiaratchy, Materials Science and Eng. PhD Alumna; First Solar, Inc.

John Jamison, Materials Science and Eng. PhD Alumnus; Sheetak, Inc.

Brelon May, Materials Science and Eng. PhD Alumnus; Idaho National Lab

Brandon Giles, Materials Science and Eng. PhD Alumnus; Tech-X Corp.

Zihao Yang, Electrical and Computer Eng. PhD Alumnus; Applied Materials, Inc.

Emilio Codecido, Physics MS Alumnus; Lake Shore Cryotronics

ATM Golam Sarwar, Electrical and Computer Eng. PhD Alumnus; Intel Corp.

Thomas Kent, Materials Science and Eng. PhD Alumnus; Battelle Memorial Institute

Masihhur R. Laskar, Postdoctoral Alumnus; Micron Tech.

Alessandro Giussani, Postdoctoral Alumnus; Silanna Semiconductor

Santino Carnevale, Materials Science and Eng. PhD Alumnus; IBM Quantum

Daniel Hoy, Physics MS Alumnus, Lake Shore Cryotronics

Jing Yang, Materials Science and Eng. PhD Alumna; SCI Engineered Materials. Inc