Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Director of the UCI Quantum Materials Center
Postdoc: Harvard (2015 – 2019)
Ph.D. Purdue University (2016)
lajaure1@uci.edu
Office: Rowland Hall 210D
Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D. Tulane University (2017) Office: Rowland Hall 210V |
Graduate Students
Timothy McSorley EQI fellow 2020 & 2022 B.S. Physics, Drexel University (2018)
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UC Lab fees awardee 2024-2026 UCI-LANL fellow 2022-2023 GEM fellow 2021 B.S. Physics, UT Austin (2019)
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Robert Welser (Drew) EQI fellow 2024 B.S. Physics, Georgia Tech (2019)
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Isabella Catanzaro B.S. Physics, UCSB (2023) |
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Kyle Charbonnet B.S. Physics, UCLA (2022) |
Eleni Kyriazi (rotation student) |
Undergraduate Students
Ryan Valera Phys |
Venkata Neti Phys/CS |
Triet Ho AE UROP fellow |
Kaustubh Simha EE |
Haochong Zhang Phys |
Aadhish Ramanathan Phys |
Sean Vo Phys/EE |
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Visitors:
Jonghyun Moon from Pusan National University – Korea |
 Meitong Yin from USTC – China |
Alumni:
Matthew Delmont is a Ph.D. student at UCSB (since Fall 2024)
Cristian Galvan has worked at RxSight since the Summer of 2024
Sebastian Yepez-Rodriguez graduated with an M.S. in 2024
Sean Doan is a Ph.D. student at UCSB (since 2023)
Rohit Ganti is a Ph.D. student at CMU (since 2023)
Zoey Liu is a graduate student at UPenn (since 2023)
Maham Hasib is an Applied Physics Ph.D. student at Harvard (since 2022)
Chris Gonzalez is now a Ph.D. student at Howard Lee’s lab (UCI)