Sara J. Gamble
sjgamble@stanford.edu, Ph.D. in Applied Physics
Sara started studying physics as an undergraduate at the University of Florida in 1999 (GO GATORS!). She joined Stanford's Applied Physics Department in 2003 and undertook a thesis project investigating high-field effects in ferromagnetic metals on the femtosecond timescale. The work used the strong and short electromagnetic field pulses of SLAC's linear accelerator to excite novel ultrafast magnetization dynamics. She graduated in March 2010 and is now working at KLA Tencor as an applications development engineer in their wafer inspection group. Sara spends a good bit of her spare time hanging out with her pet bunnies (check out all her youtube videos HERE) and trying to cook up yummy vegetarian delights.
Sara in the jungle of Ecuardor!
Shampa Sarkar
sarkar@slac.stanford.edu, Post-doc
Before coming to US, Shampa was in Japan specializing in high resolution transmission electron microscopy.
Currently focussing on the electronic phase separation in correlated oxides, mainly CMR manganites via novel X-ray imaging techniques.
Apart from Physics, her passions are painting and playing an Indian instrument called Sitar. Shampa is now back in India.
From Left: Xiaowei, Björn, Shampa, Chou, Dave, Vencky, Scott, and John Paul.
Xiaowei Yu
xwyu@stanford.edu, Graduate Student in Stanford Economics Department
Approaching the finish line of her Ph.D. in physics, Xiaowei found her new passion lies in understanding and helping with the Chinese social economic problems. She is now starting her new journey as a economics Ph.D. student at Stanford.
Yves M. Acremann
acremann@slac.stanford.edu, Staff Scientist at ETH Zürich
Yves received his Ph.D. from ETH Zürich. He's an expert in all sorts of time resolved techniques. After almost eight years in the bay area, worked first as a postdoc and then ar staff scientist as SSRL and then PULSE, Yves is now back at ETH. It is certain the new life back home thrills him daily, with the snow capped Alps right outside the windows.
This is real, Yves inside the Glacier!
Ashwin Tulapurkar
Post-Doc of SSRL, 2006-2008.
Ashwin worked on the spin injection project. Currently a professor at I.I.T. Bombay.
Venkatesh Chembrolu
cvenky@stanfordalumni.org, Ph.D. in Applied Physics
Graduated summer 2008, Venky is now a Post-doc at IBM Almaden doing research on magnetic tape storage.
Venky and Bhavani at Jo's summer party.
Bill Schlotter
www.stanford.edu/~wschlott, Ph.D. in Applied Physics
Graduated summer 2007, worked as a post-doc in FLASH in Hamburg, Germany. Starting fall 2009, Bill became the instrument scientist for the SXR beamline at LCLS, the first x-ray laser in the world.
John Paul Strachan
john_paul@alum.mit.edu, Ph.D. in Applied Physics
Graduated summer 2006, John Paul is currently working in HP research labs as a post-doc.
Kang Chen
M.S. in Applied Physics
Graduated winter 2007, Kang went back to China, currently working in Beijing.
Ioan Tudosa
itudosa@ucsd.edu, Ph.D. in Applied Physics
Ioan graduated summer 2005, now working in a MRAM start-up company in the bay area.
Scott Andrews
scott.andrews@sandrews.org, Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering
Currently having fun in a startup solar cell venture.