Costel R. Rotundu

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

August 2018 - present
Independent Researcher AKA conducting scientific research without salaried, university, or corporate backing
(currently mainly collaborating with groups at Stanford University and Caltech)

March 2018 - August 2018
GLAM Associate
(with Professor Ian R. Fisher)
Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials GLAM, at Stanford University
Stanford, California

September 2014 - February 2018
Research Associate - Experimental
Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES), a joint institute of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University
Menlo Park, California
- Measurements:
- Materials synthesis examples: cuprate insulator Sr₂Cu₃O₄Cl₂; superconducting cuprate Nd_2-xCe_xCuO₄ (with J.-F. He); topological insulators Bi₂Se₃ and Bi₂Te₃.
- Collaboration examples: Z.-X. Shen (ARPES), David Hsieh (optical spectroscopy), Wei-Sheng Lee (x-ray techniques), Hadas Sofier (trARPES), Heike Pfau (ARPES), Junfeng He (ARPES), Patrick Kirchmann (time-resolved photoemission).
PI Y.S. Lee (no direct participation in these syntheses)

October 2013 - June 2014
Assistant Researcher/ from Professional Research Series
(with Assistant Professor Ni Ni)
Physics & Astronomy UCLA
Los Angeles, California

June 2008 - June 2012
Materials Postdoctoral Fellow
(with Professor Robert J. Birgeneau)
Materials Sciences Division (Quantum Materials Program),
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, California
- Measurements:
- Materials synthesis examples: independently grew crystals of iron-arsenide superconductors and topological insulators
- Collaboration examples: Alessandra Lanzara (ARPES), Stephen D. Wilson (neutron scattering; no involvement in synthesis), Norman E. Phillips † (heat capacity), Byron K. Freelon (XAS)
PI Edith Bourret-Courchesne (no direct participation in these syntheses; working in the field of scintillating materials)
PI Robert J. Birgeneau (no direct participation in materials synthesis)

January 2007 - May 2008
Research Associate
(with Professor Richard L. Greene)
Maryland Quantum Materials Center QMC,
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
&
May 2007 - May 2008
Visiting Investigator
(with Drs. Viktor V. Struzhkin and Alexander Goncharov)
Earth and Planets Laboratory (Matter at Extreme States),
Carnegie Science
Washington DC

EDUCATION

August 2001 - December 2006
Ph.D. in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, thesys "Novel Heavy Fermion Behavior in Praseodymium-Based Materials: Experimental Study of PrOs₄Sb₁₂", adviser Dr. Bohdan Andraka
Physics Department,
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

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