Current Group Members
Our Advisor
Postdoctoral Associates
Srinivasa Thimaiah (Complex intermetallics; Quasicrystal approximants; X-ray diffraction)
Graduate Students
Hyunjin Ko (Complex metallic alloys; Structure-property relations in metal-rich solid state phases)
Sumohan Misra (Magnetic refrigeration; Crystallography, calorimetry and magnetic studies)
Fei Wang (New polar intermetallics with complex networks; f-d-p mixed metal systems)
Tae-Soo You (New polar intermetallics; Structure-composition-property relations)
Undergraduate Students
Cynthia Salgado (Summer, 2008: ISU AGEP Program; Wichita St. University; Band gaps in conjugated polymers)
Visiting Scientists
None at present
Past Group Members
(Current locations, as best known, in parentheses)
Postdoctoral Associates
Wonyoung Choe (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE)
Olivier Gourdon (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN)
Delphine Gout (Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, Los Alamos, NM)
Paul Kögerler (RWTH-Aachen, Aachen, Germany)
Jianhua Lin (Peking University, Beijing, China)
Yurij Mozharivskij (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
German Samolyuk (Iowa State University, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Ames, IA)
Yingzhong Su (Pacific Northwest Research Institute, Seattle, WA)
Wen-Jiuan Tsai (University of Oregon, Eugene, OR)
Myungok Yoon (University of Oregon, Eugene, OR)
Graduate Students
Cathie Condron (SSRL, Stanford, CA; )
Vik Djerdjian (Ellsworth Community College, Iowa Falls, IA)
Mi-Kyung Han (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)
Chi-Shen Lee (National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu , Taiwan)
Sean McWhorter (California)
Karen (Nordell) Pearson (Lawrence University, Appleton, WI)
Jason Poock (Marshalltown Community College, Marshalltown, IA)
James Rudd (California St. University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA)
Deborah Schlagel (Ames Laboratory, Ames, IA)
Mark Smith (University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC)
Undergraduate Students
Tim Barker (University of California-Irvine)
Evan Benbow (Florida St. University)
Raven Charles (LSU) Jane Clayton (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT)
Ruth Cink (Northwestern College, Orange City, IA)
Melissa Fierke (University of Minnesota)
Sara Hobbs (Iowa State University)
Daniel Hummer (Pennsylvania State University)
Chris Kurtt (Department of Education, Iowa State University)
Chee-Seng Lee
Brian Muff
Adam Orosco
Marc Patience (Psychology Department, Iowa State University)
Eric Poweleit (Pennsylvania State University)
Michael Purdham (University of California-Berkeley)
Ryan Steele (University of California-Berkeley)
Todd Van Thomme
Josh Weber (Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA)
Darrick Williams (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM)
Wing-Keung Woo
Visiting Scientists
Prof. Steven Gravelle (St. Vincent College, Latrobe PA)
Prof. Kenji Ishikawa (Meiji University, Japan)
Prof. Sung Kwon Kang (Chungnam National University, Seoul, Korea)
Prof. Chong Zheng (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL)