The Team
Dr. Ashkan Salamat
DirectorDr. Ashkan Salamat
Dr. Keith Lawler
Assistant DirectorDr. Keith Lawler
Dr. Craig Schwartz
Assistant Research ProfessorDr. Craig Schwartz
Dr. Dean Smith
Assistant Research ProfessorDr. Dean Smith
Paul Ellison
EngineerPaul Ellison
Dr. Jasmine Hinton
Postdoctoral ScholarDr. Jasmine Hinton
Logan Magad-Weiss
Graduate StudentLogan Magad-Weiss
Melanie White
Graduate StudentMelanie White
Daniel Schacher
Graduate StudentDaniel Schacher
Waldo Cabriales
Undergraduate StudentWaldo Cabriales
Rowdy Gutierrez
Undergraduate StudentRowdy Gutierrez
Portraits by George Thomas Foskaris
Alumni
Alumni
Joshua Van Cleave
Graduate student; 2021–2023Joshua Van Cleave
Tristan Benally
Undergraduate student; 2022–2023Tristan Benally
Alireza Bolourian
Undergraduate student; 2022–2023Alireza Bolourian
Dr. Emily Siska
Postdoctoral scholar; 2020–2023Dr. Emily Siska
Lecturer at College of Southern Nevada
Dr. Sergio Villa Cortes
Postdoctoral scholar; 2022–2023Dr. Sergio Villa Cortes
Scientist in technology sector
Dr. G. Alexander Smith
Graduate student; 2018–2023Dr. G. Alexander Smith
Postdoctoral scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dr. Zachary Grande
Graduate Student; 2016–2023Dr. Zachary Grande
Postdoctoral scholar at Harvard
Lazar Novakovic
Graduate Student; 2020–2023Lazar Novakovic
Graduate student at Brown University
Dean Sayre
Graduate Student; 2020–2022Dean Sayre
George Foskaris
Graduate Student; 2020–2022George Foskaris
Faraz Mostafaipur
Undergraduate Student; 2020–2022Faraz Mostafaipur
Graduate student at Caltech
Dr. Christian Childs
Graduate Student; 2015–2020Dr. Christian Childs
Scientist in technology sector
Dylan Durkee
Undergraduate Student; 2016–2020Dylan Durkee
Graduate student at University of Rochester
Dr. Daniel Sneed
Graduate Student; 2016–2019Dr. Daniel Sneed
Staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboraory
Elizabeth Wigington
Summer Student; 2019Elizabeth Wigington
Student at Carnegie Mellon University
Ashish Kalakuntla
Summer Student; 2017, 2018 & 2019Ashish Kalakuntla
Graduate student at Duke
John Kearney
Undergraduate Student; 2016–2018John Kearney
Graduate student in UNLV Chemistry
Chris Higgins
Graduate Student; 2016–2018Chris Higgins
Tutor at UNLV
Peter Shields
Undergraduate Student; 2016–2018Peter Shields
Physics major at UMass Amherst
Ryan Phung
Research Assistant; 2017Ryan Phung
Engineer at Nevada Test Site
Scott Eierman
Undergraduate Student; 2016–2017Scott Eierman
Graduate student at UC Santa Barbara