Alumni
Cat Graves
cgraves@stanford.edu, Hewlett-Packard
Cat graduated from Georgetown University, majoring in Physics and Political Science. Once she joined the group in summer 2009, she hit the ground running with the design and building of the RCI endstation. 
Roopali Kukreja
roopalik@stanford.edu, Postdoc at UCSD
Went to college at the renowned I.I.T. in Bombay (why is it called Mumbai now?), she joined the group in the spring of 2009. Roopali has focused on studying ultrafast electronic and lattice responses of magnetite following laser excitation.
Stefano Bonetti
bonetti@slac.stanford.edu, Research Associate
Stefano got his Ph.D. with a thesis on spin waves dynamics at the KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He joined the group in March 2012 as a postdoctoral fellow, and he is currently attempting to combine time resolved measurements and direct spatial imaging of spin waves using x-rays.
Tianhan Wang
wangth@stanford.edu, APPLIED Materials
The second U. Mich. boy in our group, Han and Bill ceratinly team up during football season... Go Blue!
Alexander Gray
axgray@slac.stanford.edu, Professor at Temple University
Alex's research interests include ultrafast nanoscale electron and spin dynamics, and the development of new x-ray photoemission techniques for studies of buried layers and interfaces.
Suman Hossain
hossain@slac.stanford.edu, Research Associate at Berkeley
Finished his Ph.D. in University of British Columbia working on strongly correlated materials and high T-c super conducters, Suman started his journey in the U.S. with the goal of developing novel X-ray techniques for investigating these very interesting material properties.
Sanne de Jong
sdejong@slac.stanford.edu, Business Analyst at Deloitte
Sanne finished his Research Associate position with us, and has now moved back to the Netherlands.
Benny Wu
bennywu@stanford.edu, Lam Research
Canadian, his younger brother Teddy is a very good table tennis player so Benny certainly inherited part of the skills which is enough to dominate the Stanford campus. Like every boy who grew up in British Columbia, he's also an avid fan of the Vancouver Canucks.
Benny went totally off trail at Crater Lake National Park.
Andreas Scherz
scherz@slac.stanford.edu, Group leader at XFEL
Father of three from the city of Berlin. Project leader the coherent scattering and lensless imaging experiments in the group. Currently also care-taker of the SSRL coherent scattering beamline at SSRL, BL13-3, and chief designer of our new toy, the RCI endstation.
Andreas doing serious photo shots of his new toy: the RCI end station.
David Bernstein
dpb176@stanford.edu, Patent Consultant
Loves the california outdoors so much that he became the president of the Stanford Redwood Outdoor Club. Now a certified EMT, he brings extra sense of safety to the ever safer SLAC work environment.
Dave practice fly fishing in the High Sierras lakes.
Mark Burkhardt
markb2@stanford.edu, Hitachi
Mark is using x-ray techniques to studying the microscopic magnetic properties of materials that exhibit colossal magnetoresistance. He's originally from Massachusetts and attended Williams College before coming to Stanford. When not in the lab, he enjoys training for and competing in triathlons and camping.
Mark at the transition area before the UCSB triathlon race.
Ramon Rick
rrick@stanford.edu, Ph.D in Applied Physics
Ramon studied lensless x-ray microscopy, particularly the spatial coherence and intensity required to advance the x-ray microscopy resolution barrier towards 10 nanometers. Ramon enjoys working on a small private equity start-up called Frisco Capital or teaching students to fly a C172 at Stanford Flying Club when not at work. After attaining his PhD, he decided to pursue his business degree at Stanford.
Diling Zhu
www.stanford.edu/~zutee, Instrument Scientist at XPP, LCLS
Diling was designer of this web site, although he's now passed on caretaking duties to Han and Cat. During his PhD, Diling pioneered various x-ray holography techniques. We are very fortunate that Diling decided to stay close by after his PhD, now hard at work at the XPP hutch at the Linac Coherent Light Source (or SLAC's x-ray free electron laser), located just over the hill from the Stöhr group offices at SLAC. In fact, he just got promoted to Instrument Scientist!
Diling enjoying the rainy windy pebbly Washington coast.
Björn Bräuer
bjorn.brauer@gmail.com, Post-doc
After finishing Ph.D. in Germany working on magnetic molecules, Björn
arrived with the expertise in both organic materials and magnetism. While with the group, he worked on investigating
candidate organic materials for organic photovotaics and electronics. He now works for KLA Tencor in Portland, Oregon.
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. Bill's position allows him to continue to collaborate with the Stöhr group, and has hosted the RCI instrument at the SXR hutch four times already!
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, and worked in a MRAM start-up company in the Bay Area. After several years, Ioan has decided to return to SLAC and is now part of SIMES while working towards new measurements of ultrafast electrical field induced switching at FACET.
Scott Andrews
scott.andrews@sandrews.org, Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering
Currently having fun in a startup solar cell venture.