Principal Investigator

Udo Schwingenschlögl

Professor of Applied Physics

Research Interests: 2D Materials, Quantum Transport, Interface and Defect Physics, Correlated Materials, Thermoelectrics, Metal-Ion Batteries, Nanoparticles

Research Scientists

Xiaoning Zang

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Topological Phase, Twisted Light, Exciton, TDDFT

Postdoctoral Fellows

Aleksandra Oranskaia

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Materials Modeling, vdW Interaction, Chemistry of Materials

Gokaran Shukla

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Transport in all kind of  materials and  devices

Hasan Abdullah

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Spintronics, Quantum Transport, Topological Materials, Orbitronics, Confinement

Mohammed Ghadiyali

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: 2D Materials, Perovskites, Metal-Semiconductor Interface, Solar cell

R Dilmurat

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Organic Semiconductors, multi-scale modeling, CISS (Chiral-Induced SpinSelectivity), metal-organic complexes

Shiqiang Yu

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: two-dimensional layered materials, First-Principles Calculations, noncollinear magentism, Type-II multiferroicity, interlayer interaction

PhD Students

Abdullah Bawazir

PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Quantum information processing, Bloch Oscillation, Floquet Theory, Orbitronics, Coherent Photovoltaics, Twisted Particles, Artificial Gauge Field

Aleksandr Voronin

PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Materials Modeling, Nanomaterials, Molecular Dynamics, DFT

Basma K. Labani

PhD Candidate

Research Interests: 2D Materials, First-Principles Calculations, Reaction Mechanism, Computational Chemistry, Computational Physical Chemistry, Thermochemistry, CCUS, Gas sequestration, Catalysis

Ghaith Jamal Nadhreen

PhD Candidate

Research Interests: 2D Materials, Materials Modeling, DFT, Graphene, Batteries, Membranes, Hydrogen Separation

Mohammad Alharthy

PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Materials Modeling, DFT, Molecular Dynamics, Reaction Mechanism, Process Modelling, Computational Physics

Rakesh Rosan Pradhan

PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Perovskite Solar Cells, Nanomaterials, Charge-Carrier Dynamics

Reem Alharbi

PhD Candidate

Research Interests: 2D Materials, Quantum Transport, Gas Sensing, DNA Sensing, Nanowire

MS Students

Shatha AlGhamdi

MS Student

Research Interests: Topological Insulators, anomalous Hall effect, tight-binding theory, topological Hall effect, noncollinear kagome systems, topological magneto-optical effects