Group Members


Wenli Bi
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
Email: wbi@uab.edu
Office: ESH 4121
Lab: SSH 1143
Curriculum Vitae


Greeshma Jose
Physics Graduate student. Jan 2021 –
Email: greeshma@uab.edu

James Petri
Physics Graduate student, August 2023 –
Email: jlpetri@uab.edu

Francisco Canales
Physics Graduate student, August 2024 –
Email: fjcana23@uab.edu

Lauren Elliott, Materials Engineering
Feb. 2024 –
Email: laelliot@uab.edu

Dr. Lily Thompson, Visiting Professor from Sewanee: The University Of The South, Oct.-Nov. 2024
Email: ecthomps@sewanee.edu

Zosia Kabarowska, Physics undergraduate
June 2024 –
Email: zckabaro@uab.edu


Former group members

Hunter Kantelis
Graduate student. Jan 2023 – 08/2024. REU student from the University of South Florida, Summer 2022
Email: kantelis@uab.edu

Daniel Hollingsworth, Mechanical EngineeringUndergraduate Research Assistant, Feb. 2024 – July 2024

Thomas Freeman, Middle Tennessee State University, REU student, Summer 2024.

Raimundas Sereika

Postdoc Scholar, 08/2022-7/2024

Trenton Culverhouse, Physics major
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Dec. 2020 – April 2024
Graduate student at Cornell University starting in Fall 2024.

Bennett Gamble, Chemistry major
Undergraduate Research Assistant, May. 2023 – May 2024
Graduate student at Michigan State University starting in Fall 2024.

Andrew Choi
UAB-CORD Summer Intern from Hoover High School, Summer 2023. Undergraduate student at U. Pennsylvania.

Isaac Mendez
REU student from Brigham Young University-Idaho, Summer 2023

Sudeshna Samanta
Postdoc Scholar, 8/2022 – 7/2023

Current position: Assistant Professor, GITAM University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Zachary Nix, M.S. 2021.

Alexandra King, high school work-study student from Jefferson County International Baccalaureate School (JCIB), 12/2019-3/2020.