Luis A. Jauregui (‘How-re-gee’)

Luis was born and raised in Callao, Peru. Luis did his undergraduate studies at UNI-Peru and worked as an undergraduate researcher at Texas A&M. In 2008, Luis started his Ph.D. at Purdue, in the group of Yong P. Chen in collaboration with Leonid Rokhinson. Luis worked in the electron and phonon transport of graphene and topological nanostructures. For his graduate studies, he obtained the Intel Ph.D. Fellowship and the Purdue Research Foundation Fellowship. As a graduate student, Luis created nanoREPU, a program that aims to foster diversity in STEM graduate programs. nanoREPU has already mentored and guided 17 students since its creation. After his Ph.D., Luis became a Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and worked under the direction of Philip Kim, in collaboration with Hongkun Park, Misha Lukin, and Federico Capasso. Luis’ postdoc work was centered on studying the optical properties of van der Waals heterostructures. Since 2019, Luis is an assistant professor at the Physics Department at UCI and the director of the Irvine Quantum Material Center.