The Group

Below you can see a photo of the current group in the Department of Materials Science at the Grainger College of Engineering at UIUC.

  • Our group near Boneyard Creek in the Engineering Quad Fall 2023

We are always looking for excellent and motivated students as well as outstanding postdoctoral researchers. If you want to work in the exciting field of computational materials science, let us know!

See below for detailed profiles of our postdocs and students. See our group alumni and previous group photos here.


Prof. Dr. André Schleife

Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Affiliated Associate Professor with Materials Research Laboratory and National Center for Supercomputer Applications
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Postdocs

Zhihao Jiang

Physics, Ph.D.
Topology, plasmonics, and magnetism
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Vijaya Begum-Hudde

Physics, Ph.D.
Surface defects,
quantum computing
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Graduate Students

Erick I. Hernandez Alvarez

Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. Candidate
Nanomaterial Optical Properties
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Brian Robinson

Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. Student
Electronic and Optical Properties
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Gillian Nolan

Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. Student
Electron-Ion Interactions
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Fatemeh Amerikheirabadi

Physics,
Ph.D. Student
Materials Properties
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Junehu Park

Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. Student
Magnetic Materials
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Yifan Yao

Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. Student
Laser Materials Interaction
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Cindy Wong

Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. Student
Material Optical Properties
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Yi-Ting Lee

Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. Student
Quantum Computing Materials
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