Current Members

From left: Claire Berger, Peter McGoron, Noel Dudeck, Will Griffin, Eric Zhang, Walter A. de Heer, Bladen Le Clus, Zhihan Wei, Gabriel Feng
Not Pictured: Grant Nunn, Amira Bencherif
Professors

Dr. Walter A. de Heer
Regents’ Professor
walt.deheer@gatech.edu
(Wikipedia)

Dr. Claire Berger
Directeur de Recherche – Centre national de la recherche scientifique (GT-CNRS lnternational Research Lab 2958)
Professor of the Practice – Georgia Institute of Technology
claire.berger@physics.gatech.edu
claire.berger@cnrs.fr
(Wikipedia)
Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Amira Bencherif
abencherif3@gatech.edu
abencherif@georgiatech-metz.fr
Graduate Students

Grant Nunn
B.A. in Physics, Hendrix College (2015)
grantnunn@gatech.edu

Noel Dudeck
B.S. in Physics, Louisiana State University (2021)
B.S. in Mathematics, Louisiana State University (2021)
ndudeck3@gatech.edu

Will Griffin
B.S. in Physics, Carnegie Mellon University (2016)
wgriffin34@gatech.edu

Eric Zhang
B.S. in Physics, Emory University (2023)
eric.yi.zhang@gatech.edu

Peter McGoron
B.S. in Physics, Florida State University (2023)
peter.mcgoron@gatech.edu
Undergraduate Students

Zhihan Wei
zwei94@gatech.edu

Gabriel Feng
ggfeng@gatech.edu

Bladen Le Clus
bclus3@gatech.edu
Past Members
Postdoctoral Researchers
- Dr. Abhishek Juyal (Lafayette Institute, Metz, France)
- Dr. Vladimir Prudkovskiy (Centre etudes atomiques, Grenoble, France)
- Dr. Clement Bouvier
- Dr. John Hankinson (Georgia Tech Research Institute)
- Dr. Jan Kunc (University of Pragues)
- Dr. Rui Dong (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
- Dr. Xiaosong Wu (Peking University, China)
Graduate Students
- Dr. Yue Hu, Ph.D. 2021 (Seagate Technology)
- Dr. Yiran Hu, Ph.D. 2020 (Amazon Web Services)
- Dr. Jean-Philippe Turmaud, Ph.D. 2019 (Intel)
- Dr. Jamey Gigliotti, Ph.D. 2019 (Intel)
- Dr. Dogukan Deniz, Ph.D. 2019 (Intel)
- Dr. John Hankinson, Ph.D. 2016 (Georgia Tech Research Institute)
- Dr. James Palmer, Ph.D. 2014 (Intel)
- Dr. Zelei Guo, Ph.D. 2014 (Apple)
- Dr. Yike Hu, Ph.D. 2013 (Exponent)
- Dr. Ming Ruan, Ph.D. 2012 (McKinsey & Company)
- Dr. Michael Sprinkle, Ph.D. 2010 (Intel)
- Dr. Xuebin Li, Ph.D. 2008 (Applied Materials)
- Dr. Zhimin Song, Ph.D. 2007 (Microsoft)
Undergraduate Students
Joe Gezo (2001-2003), Abbie Sickle (2003), Chen Li (2005), Robert Hovden (2006), John Renshaw (2007), Nate Brown (2006), Ming Li (2007), Karl Kuhn (2008), David Shaw (2008), Karine Madiomanana (2008), Miguel Rubio-Roy (2009), Andrew Sivers (2009), Samuel Adams (2010), Emilien Durupt (2010), Jessica Bousquet (2010), Zackary Talyor (2011), Alexander Kessler (2011), Thomas Delaubenfels (2010-2012), Haoran Wen (2013), Sang Lee (2013), Kevin Floch (2013), Andrei Savu (2011-2013), Yunxia (Sarah) Fan (2014), Brianna Thompson (2014), Caroline Lim (2014), Pierre Poujaud (2015), Claire Besancon (2016), Odile Brossard (2018), Elisa Koolman (2020), Arthur Miltner (2021), Caleb Hatch (2022), Lin Beck (2022), Ava Williamson (2022), Marygrace Fagen (2023), Anthony Ramirez (2023), Mikhail Velez (2023)
Open Positions
We are always interested in highly motivated undergraduate and graduate students to work on our current epigraphene projects. Please contact Walt de Heer and Claire Berger if you are interested in working with us.
Collaborators
See our list of collaborators.
Group Pictures

From left: Peter McGoron, Claire Berger, Eric Zhang, Noel Dudeck

On top: Claire Berger
Inside the pyramid: assorted graduate students