Professor Robert S. Feigelson | feigel_AT_stanford.edu
Professor Feigelson received his B.S. degree in Ceramic Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1957, his M.S. in Ceramics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961 and his Ph.D in Materials Science from Stanford University in 1974. During the late 50’s and early 60’s he worked for the Convair Division of the General Dynamics Corp. in Fort Worth Texas and later with the U.S. Army’s Watertown Arsenal and the Sperry Rand Research Center in Massachusetts. He has been at Stanford University since 1963 where his research in crystal growth has involved materials of all classes and for a variety of applications. He has authored or coauthored over 270 publications, several patents and has been a consultant for 18 organizations. He was the recipient of the 1994 Trienniel International Laudise Crystal Growth Award for outstanding achievements in crystal growth.
George Calvert | gcalvert_AT_stanford.edu
George earned his BS and MS in Materials Engineering from San Jose State University in San Jose California. His current work involves crystal growth development and characterization of scintillator materials.
Dr. Christo Guguschev | christog_AT_stanford.edu
Christo is a visiting scholar from the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (Berlin, Germany). He received his Ph.D. from the Technische Universität Berlin and earned his Diploma degree in Mineralogy from the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. His current work at Stanford involves shaped crystal growth of scintillator materials and crystal characterization.
Stephanie Lam | stephlam_AT_stanford.edu
Stephanie earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara and is currently a graduate student in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Her current research involves relating the non-proportional energy response of scintillator materials to their chemical structure.
Eric Xu
Eric is currently a student at Lynbrook High School. He is currently working on relating scintillation performance to crystalline and structural defects.
Dr. Stephen Podowitz
Dr. Stephen Podowitz received ins Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford and earned his BS in Materials Science and Engineering from Columbia University. His thesis work focused on the effect of grain boundaries and related lattice defects on scintillation properties in transparent ceramics. He is now working at Soraa.
Ye He
Ye He earned her B.S. in Applied Physics at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Her research work was conducted on rare earth doped YAG ceramic fabrication, characterization and solid state ceramic laser measurement.
Wesley Hong
Wesley graduated with his B.Sc. in 2011 in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University and is now a graduate student at MIT. His research included the synthesis and characterization of strontium iodide transparent ceramics for use in scintillation.
Jeff Wisdom
Graduated Ph.D. student, Stanford University.
Dr. Martin Gascon
Dr. Gascon received his M.S. degree in Physics from Zaragoza University (Spain) in 2005 and his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in 2010. His research activities involved studying the non-proportionality response of scintillator materials at low temperatures and high pressures. He is now at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Professor Romain Gaume | gaume_AT_ucf.edu
Professor Romain Gaume is currently an assistant professor in Optics and Material Sciences at the University of Central Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from Paris VI University in 2002. His interests include the fabrication of optical ceramics, spectroscopy, laser and scintillator materials.
Dr. Xiaodong Li
Dr. Li received his M.S. degree in Powder Metallurgy from Northeastern University (China) in 1996 and his Ph.D in Materials Science from Tottori University (Japan) in 2004. His research activities on transparent ceramics included the development of transparent ceramics laser materials and scintillators with new compositions and investigation of their optical properties.
Clarissa Gutierrez
Clarissa's research focused on the study of effects of dopants on the densification of yttrium oxide ceramics.
Atlal Laouar
Atlal was a visiting student from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris where she prepared her Master's degree in Materials Chemistry. Her research involved the fabrication and characterization of optical ceramics based on Europium-doped Strontium Iodide for scintillation applications.
February 2008 - August 2008
Maxime Vincec
Maxime earned his Master's Degree in Materials Science and Nano-Objects (SMNO) from Universite Paris VI. His research efforts focused on the fabrication of Nd:YAG ceramics by the co-precipitation method.
February 2008 - August 2008
Guillaume Deschamps
Master's Student from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP), France.
February 2008 - August 2008
Jessica Rabeau
Master's Student from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP), France.
February 2008 - August 2008
Rizvi Rahman
Master's Student from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP), France.
February 2007 - August 2007
Benoit Georges
Master's Student from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP), France.
February 2006 - August 2006