2024 Physics PhDs Awarded

Bren Backhaus
Advisor: Jonathan Trump
Thesis: “Emission-Line Properties of High-Redshift Galaxies and their Black Holes”

Dharma Basaula
Advisor: Serge Nakhmanson
Thesis: “Mesoscale Modeling of Thermoelectric Materials”

Mitchell Bredice
Advisor: Vasili Kharchenko
Thesis: “Kinetics, Nucleation, and Relaxation Dynamics of Ion-Seeded Nanoparticles”

Michael Davino
Advisor: Carlos Trallero
Thesis: “Strong-field Physics from Atoms to Nanoparticles”

Ashok Gurung
Advisor: Serge Nakhmanson
Thesis: “Predictive Multiscale Modeling of Dielectric and Electromechanical Properties in Electroactive Materials”

Zachary “Zoey” Harris
Advisor: Gerald Dunne
Thesis: “On the Application of Resurgence to Effective Actions in Quantum Field Theories”

Tianye Liu
Advisor: Philip Mannheim
Thesis: “Investigation of the Anisotropy of Cosmic Microwave Background Based on Conformal Cosmological Fluctuation and Associated Legendre Functions”

Brean Maynard
Advisor: Peter Schweitzer
Thesis: “Theoretical Studies of Hadron Structure”

Jonathan Mercedes
Advisor: Daniel Angles-Alcazar
Thesis: “The Impact of Quasar Fueling and Feedback at Cosmic Noon in Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations”

Debadarshini Mishra
Advisor: Nora Berrah
Thesis: “Photo-Induced Ultrafast Dynamics in Molecules”

Daniel Norman
Advisor: Philip Mannheim
Thesis: “Investigation of the Analytic Structure of Conformal Cosmological Fluctuations”

Zhanna Rodnova
Advisor: Carlos Trallero
Thesis: “Towards New Mechanisms For The Generation of Long Wavelength Infrared Femtosecond Pulses”

Sebastian Seeds
Advisor: Andrew Puckett
Thesis: “The Two-Photon Exchange Contribution to Electron-Neutron Elastic Scattering (nTPE) and Extraction of GMn at Q^2 = 4.5 (GeV/c)^2 in Hall A at Jefferson National Lab”

Ravi Wickramathilake
Advisor: Vernon Cormier
Thesis: “Seismic Attenuation and Scattering in Earth’s Inner Core : New Modeling and Interpretation”