Group Members

Current Members

Martin Mourigal (he/him), Principal Investigator (CV)

Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Physics, Atlanta (USA)
    Elwood P. Blanchard Early Career Professor, 2022-
    Associate Professor, 2020-
    Assistant Professor, 2015-2020
Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA), 2011-2014
PhD, Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale (EPFL), Lausanne (Switzerland), 2011
MSc, Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale (EPFL), Lausanne (Switzerland), 2008
BSc, Materials, École des Mines de Nancy (France), 2007

mourigal@gatech.edu | +1 (404) 747-4969 | Office: Howey C202 | Lab: Howey S207



Chaebin Kim (he/him), Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2024 -- (CV)

PhD, Seoul National University, South Korea, 2023

ckim706@gatech.edu | Office: Howey C203 | Lab: Howey S207

Rasmus Christiansen (he/him), Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2024 --

PhD, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, 2024

rchristiansen6@gatech.edu | Office: Howey C203 | Lab: Howey S207

Faith C. Brooks (she/her), Graduate Student

BSc, Physics, Georgia Tech, 2020

dbrooks48@gatech.edu | Office: Howey S206 | Lab: Howey S207

Sathvik Nallapati (he/him), Graduate Student

BSc, Physics, IIT Kanpur (India), 2022

sathviknc@gatech.edu | Office: Howey S206 | Lab: Howey S207



Anya Johnson (she/her), Undergraduate Researcher

Physics Major, Spelman College, Atlanta (GA)

ajohnson728@gatech.edu | Office: Howey S206 | Lab: Howey S207


Elise Barron (she/her), Undergraduate Researcher

Physics Major, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (GA)

ebarron33@gatech.edu | Office: Howey S206 | Lab: Howey S207

Delano Ducasse (he/him), Undergraduate Researcher

Physics Major, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (GA)

sdiller3@gatech.edu | Office: Howey S206 | Lab: Howey S207

Sierra Diller (she/her), Undergraduate Researcher

Physics Major, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (GA)

dducasse3@gatech.edu | Office: Howey S206 | Lab: Howey S207

Alumini List

Recent Group Photos

A new kind of entanglement
Hunting for quantum spin liquids where they are
Mourigal Lab Worldwide Network (in Chennai)
Our undergrads are very flexible (APS March Meeting 2024)
Intense Outside Activities
Like in Half-Life II
Formal Lab Dinner
Neutron Scattering at HYSPEC
PPMS Joy
Traveling to exotic places, like Dresden
MPMS Probe Sadness
Flames!
Orientation Day
Impeccable use of PPE

Alumni

Shreenithi Katta (she/her), Undergraduate Researcher 2023-2025

Subsequently: Graduate Student, Physics, University of Illinois
BSc, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, December 2024


Nina Casselberry (she/her), Undergraduate Researcher 2024-2025

Subsequently: Graduate Student, Physics, Florida State University
BSc, Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2025

Aulden Jones (he/him), Undergraduate Researcher 2021-2024

Subsequently: Graduate Student, Physics, Harvard
BSc, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2024


Adit Desai (he/him), Undergraduate Researcher 2021-2024

Subsequently: Graduate Student, Physics, Caltech
BSc, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, December 2023


Sam Quinn (they/them), Post-BSc Researcher 2023-2024

Subsequently: Graduate Student, Physics, UCLA
BSc, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2023

Olivia Vilella (she/her), Graduate Student 2021-2024

Subsequently: Quantum Physicist, Northrop Grumman
PhD, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024
BSc, Physics, Pennsylvania State University, 2018

Harry Lane (he/him), Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2022-2023

Subsequently: 1851 Research Fellow, Univeristy of Saint Andrews (Scotland)
PhD, Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, 2022
MSci, Theoretical Physics, University College London, 2018

Lila Nassar, Undergraduate Research 2022-2023

Subsequently: Graduate Student in Physics, Princeton University
BSc, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023

Jensen Kaplan, Graduate Student 2020-2022

BSc, Physics, University of Florida, 2019

Katlyn Grimes, NSF REU Student 2022 (from Mississippi State)

Subsequently: Erasmus Mundus joint Master in Quantum Science and Technology

Mikias Balkew, Undergraduate Research 2021-2022

Subsequently: Graduate Student in Physics and Vivian Thomas Scholar, Johns Hopkins University
BSc, Physics and ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022

Zhiling Dun, Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-2021

Currently: Research Engineer, Applied Materials (Santa Clara)
Subsequently: Tenure-Track Researcher, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)
PhD, Physics, University of Tennessee, 2017

Marcus Daum, Graduate Student 2016-2021, SCGSR Fellow (CV)

Subsequently: Emerging Technical Leader, Northrop Grumman
PhD, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021
BSc, Physics, George Mason University, 2015

Robin Glefke, Undergraduate Student 2020-2021

Subsequently: Graduate Student, University of California San Diego
BSc, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (GA), 2020

Charles Cardot, Undergraduate Student 2020-2021

Subsequently: Graduate Student, University of Washington
BSc, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (GA), 2020

Luwei Ge, Graduate Student 2015-2020 (CV)

Subsequently: Software Engineer, Google
PhD, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020
BSc, Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai (China), 2014

Ben Lichy, Master Student

MSc, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020
BSc, Physics, Hofstra University, 2019

Xiaojian Bai, Graduate Student 2015-2019

Currently: Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University
Subsequently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PhD, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019
MSc, Theoretical Particle Physics, Sogang University, Seoul (South Korea), 2012
BEng, Spacecraft Power Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin (China), 2009

Emily Hollingworth, Undergraduate Student 2018-2019

Subsequently: Graduate Student, Physics, University of California Berkeley
BSc, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (GA), 2019

Zak Kennedy, Undergraduate Student 2018-2019

Subsequently: Graduate Student, Physics, Cornell University
BSc, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (GA), 2019

Hannah Price, Undergraduate Student 2018-2019

Subsequently: Master Student, Physics, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
BSc, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (GA), 2019

Liam Ritchie, Undergraduate Student 2018-2019

Subsequently: HERE Intern, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
BSc, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (GA), 2019

Emmanuel Aneke, Undergraduate Student (REU), 2018

Subsequently: Undergraduate Student, Physics, Georgia Tech (GA)
Physics Major, Georgia State University, Atlanta (GA)

Darian Bender, Undergraduate Student, 2016-2018

Currently: Graduate Student, Physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (CA)
BSc, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (GA), 2018

Chetan Velivela, Visiting Student, Jan.-Aug. 2017

Undergraduate Student, Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca (NY)

Sai Paladugu, Undergraduate Student 2016-2017

Subsequently: Graduate Student, Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (IL)
BSc, Physics and Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (GA), 2017

Joseph Paddison, Postdoctoral Fellow 2015-2016

Currently: Wigner Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Subsequently: Junior Research Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge (UK)
DPhil, Inorganic Chemistry, Oxford University (United Kingdom), 2015
MChem, Chemistry, Oxford University (United Kingdom), 2011
paddisonja@ornl.gov

Michael Waterbury, Undergraduate student 2015-2016

Currently: Graduate Student, Physics, University of California, Irvine (CA)
BSc, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (GA), 2016

Old Group Photos (2015)

Not messing around the PPMS
Group Lunch at Ponce City Market
No nerds allowed in the Mourigal Lab.
Luwei refilling our liquid nitrogen storage dewar with (almost) the appropriate safety equipment.
Joe and Luwei mounting their samples at the bottom of a cryostat during a neutron scattering experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source.
Joe, Luwei and Xiaojian in front of a pellet press, the first piece of equipment installed in the lab.

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