Lab Members

Current group members 

Peter Maurer

Assistant Professor 
Ph.D. in Physics, Harvard University 
Room: ERC 295 
Email: pmaurer[at]uchicago.edu 
Phone: +1-773-834-3931 
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Guanming Lao

Postdoctoral Research – Physics 
Ph.D. in Physics, University of California at Los Angeles    
Room: ERC LL253  
Email: guanmingl[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Chun Tung Cheung 

Graduate Student – Physics (co-advised with Joseph Sachleben, Alex High) 
B.Sc. in Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong   
Room: ERC LL253  
Email: ctcheung[at]uchicago.edu 
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Ignacio Chi Duran

Graduate Student – Chemistry 
B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry, Universidad de Chile 
Room: ERC LL253  
Email: ichiduran[at]uchicago.edu 
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Jacob Feder 

Graduate Student – PME (co-advised with David Awschalom)
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Brown University      
Room: ERC LL253  
Email: jfed[at]uchicago.edu 
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

David Ovetsky

Graduate Student – PME 
B.Sc. in Engineering Physics, Cornell University 
Room: ERC LL250  
Email: ovetsky[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Omri Raz 

Graduate Student – PME 
B.Sc. in Physics and Philosophy, Kings College London  
Room: ERC LL250  
Email: oraz[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Emmeline Riendeau (co-advised with Alex High) 

Graduate Student – Physics 
B.Sc. in Physics, Haverford College 
Room: ERC LL250  
Email: eriendeau[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Evan Villafranca

Graduate Student – PME 
B.Sc. in Optics, University Of Rochester
Room: ERC LL253  
Email: ejvilla4[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Shihao Wang

Graduate Student – PME 
B.Sc. in Chemistry, Peking University   
Room: ERC LL250  
Email: shihaowang[at]uchicago.edu 
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Stella Wang

Graduate Student – Physics 
B.Sc. in Physics, California Institute of Technology  
Room: ERC LL253  
Email: stella2[at]uchicago.edu 
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Xiaofei Yu

Graduate Student – Physics 
B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics, Rutgers University 
Room: ERC LL253  
Email: xy99[at]uchicago.edu 
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Tian-Xing Zheng 

Graduate Student – Physics 
B.Sc. in Physics, Peking University  
Room: ERC LL253 
Email: tianxing[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Uri Zvi

Graduate Student – PME (co-advised with Aaron Esser-Kahn) 
B.Sc. in Bioengineering, University of Washington 
Room: ERC LL253 
Email: uriz[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Undergraduate Student 

Hanyan Cai 

University of Chicago College 
Room: ERC LL253 
Email: hanyanc[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

David Dang 

University of Chicago College 
Room: ERC LL253 
Email: daviddang[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Maggie Ke 

University of Chicago College 
Room: ERC LL253 
Email: wjke[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Shivam Mundhra  

University of Chicago College 
Room: ERC LL253 
Email: smundhra[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Tengyang Ruan

Xi’an Jiaotong University 
Room: ERC LL253 
Email: tengyang[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Abdur-Rahman Waajid 

University of Chicago College 
Room: ERC LL253 
Email: awaajid[at]uchicago.edu 
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Alice Wang 

University of Chicago College 
Room: ERC LL253 
Email: atwang[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Yining Wang

University of Wisconsin Madison
Room: ERC LL253 
Email: ywang2739[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-834-6177

Administrators

Vanessa Fortenberry 

Administrator at PME 
Room: Annex 205 
Email: vanessaf[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-834-2351

Former group members

Mouzhe Xie (Postdoc: 2019 – 2023)

Assistant Professor at Arizona State University 

Aidan Jones (undergraduate: 2020 – 2023)

Graduate student at University of Colorado at Boulder  

Lingjie (Jason) Chen (undergraduate: 2021 – 2023)

Graduate student at University of California at Santa Barbara 

Anran Li (undergraduate: 2021 – 2022) 

Graduate student at Princeton University

Dahong Xu (undergraduate: 2020 – 2021)

Graduate student at Princeton University

Jude Rosen (undergraduate: 2020 – 2021) 

Graduate student at Boston University