Nirmal J. Ghimire
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Stavropoulos Center for Complex Quantum Matter
University of Notre Dame
Email: nghimire@nd.edu
Jamaluddin Sekh
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Notre Dame
PhD: NISER, India
Email: sjamalud@nd.edu
Resham Regmi
Graduate Student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Notre Dame
Email: rregmi@nd.edu
Mohamed El Gazzah
Graduate Student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Notre Dame
Email: melgazza@nd.edu
Abhijeet Nayak
Graduate Student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Notre Dame
Email: anayak@nd.edu
Daniel Lu
Undergraduate Student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Notre Dame
Mary Kate Carroll
Undergraduate Student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Notre Dame
Former Group Members
Hari Bhandari
Graduate Student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
George Mason University
Email: hbhandar@nd.edu
Next position: Postdoc at Rice University
Peter Siegfried
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Physics and Astronomy
George Mason University
PhD: University of Colorado, Boulder (2020)
Next position: Advanced Physicist at Quantinuum
David Connor Jones
Masters Student (Masters Thesis, Summer 2021)
Department of Physics and Astronomy
George Mason University
Tu Cao
Undergraduate Student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
George Mason University
Caleb Schear
Undergraduate Student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
George Mason University
Dina Michel
Undergraduate Student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
George Mason University
Currently: Grad Student at UIUC
Nicholas Bishop
Undergraduate Student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
George Mason University
Currently at SAIC
Summer Interns
Jeff Kindelan
High School Physics Teacher (QuarkNet), 2025
Adams High School, South Bend, IN
Breanna Drauden
REU Summer Intern, 2025
Arizona State University
Max Busk
High School Summer Intern (QuarkNet), 2025
Trinity School at Greenlawn, South Bend, IN
Emily Rapp
REU Summer Intern, 2024
Missouri State University
Da’Shawn Morris
Undergraduate Summer Intern, 2023
Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina
Anisha Talreja
High School Summer Intern (2022)- ASSIP
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Jeanie Qi
High School Summer Intern (2021)- ASSIP
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Jeanie’s project lead to the following publication:
CoTe2: A quantum critical Dirac metal with strong spin fluctuations
Advanced Materials 2300640 (2023)
Sukriti Sharma
High School Summer Intern (2021)
West Springfield High School