SYLWIA PTASINSKA
Principle Investigator, 101 Radiation Laboratory/311 Nieuwland Science Hall, office phone: 574-631-2819, sptasins@nd.edu
M.S. Physics, University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska (Lublin, Poland), 2001; Ph.D. Physics, Leopold-Franzens-University (Innsbruck, Austria), 2004; Post-doc, at Innsbruck, 2005, University of Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke, Canada), 2006, EPSRC Fellow, The Open University (Milton Keynes, UK), 2007-2010.
Established the group in September 2010
THEJASWINI B.
Research Assistant, 218 Radiation Laboratory, tbasappa@nd.edu
B.S. Physical Science, University of Mysore (Mandya, India) 2015, M.S. Physics, University of Mysore (Mysuru, India) , 2017.
Joined the group in January 2025; research area: heterogeneous processes on surfaces
JACOB FINLEY
Undergraduate Student, 229 Radiation Laboratory, jfinley2@nd.edu
Expects to graduate in 2026 with a B.S. in physics in medicine (AL/SC Honors Program)
Joined the group in August 2023, research area: low-energy electron interactions
CECILIA VILLAVICENCIO GARCIA
PhD Student (Department of Physics and Astronomy), 218 Radiation Laboratory, cgarcavi@nd.edu
B.S. Physics, Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (Puebla, Mexico), 2022
Joined the group in January 2023; research area: non-thermal plasma radiation
JAKE KILBRIDE
Undergraduate Student, 229 Radiation Laboratory, jkilbri2@nd.edu
Expects to graduate in 2026 with a B.S. in pre-professional studies
Joined the group in October 2024, research area: low-energy electron interactions
JACKSON KING
PhD Student (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry), 304b Radiation Laboratory, jking17@nd.edu
B.S. Biochemistry, Valparaiso University (Indiana, USA) 2023,
Joined the group in January 2024; research area: heterogeneous processes on surfaces
ANESU MATARA
Undergraduate Student, 229 Radiation Laboratory, amatara@nd.edu
Expects to graduate in 2026 with a B.S. in physics in medicine (AL/SC Honors Program)
Joined the group in August 2023, research area: non-thermal plasma radiation
KENTON REEH
Undergraduate Student, 218 Radiation Laboratory, kreeh@nd.edu
REU student. Creigthon University
Joined the group in May 2025, research area: low-energy electron interactions
HAO YU
Post-doctoral Researcher, 237 Radiation Laboratory, hyu5@nd.edu
B.A. Engineering, Chiba University, (Japan) 2015, M.Eng. Engineering, University of Tokyo (Japan), 2017; Ph.D. Engineering, University of Tokyo (Japan), 2020.
Joined the group in February 2025; research area: low-energy electron interactions
FORMER MEMBERS AND VISITORS
RESEARCH AND VISITING PROFESSORS
Piotr Fiilipiak (May 2023), Aleksandar R. Milosavljevic (May 2015 – Feb 2016), Radmila Panajotovic (Nov 2016), Tomek Pedzinski (May 2023), Cécile Sicard-Roselli (Sep/Nov 2022, Sep/Oct 2023)
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
Krishna P. Arjunan (Aug 2013 – Jul 2015), Soumya Banerjee (July 2018-Oct 2019), Dipayan Chakraborty (June 2019- April 2025), M. Michele Dawley (Mar 2013 – Feb 2015), Florent Ducrozet (Jan- Mar 2023), Surja Ghale (June 2018 – February 2019), Matej Klas (Sep 2012 – Aug 2013), Michal Ryszka (Dec 2015- Nov 2017), Subha Sadhu (Jul 2015 – Jun 2017), Vladimir Samara (Nov 2015 – Aug 2017), Denis Sokolov (Mar 2014 – Feb 2015)
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Ek Adhikari (physics, PhD 2019), Joao Ameixa (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Andrea Casotto (dual degree with Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, chemistry, PhD 2023), Bo-An Chen (chemistry, PhD 2024), Lauren Eckermann (chemistry, MSc 2022), Lily Ellis-Gibbings (CSIC, Madrid, Spain), Kasia Grzyb (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland), Xu Han (physics, PhD 2017), Weixin Huang (chemistry, PhD 2017), James Kapaldo (physics, PhD 2018), Ed Lamere (physics), Zhou Li (physics, PhD 2017), Abhijeet Nayak (physics), Evan Panken (non-major), Emil Sundang Peters (Stockholm University, Sweden), Benjamin Puschnigg (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Pitambar Sapkota (physics, PhD 2020), Amal Sebastian (physics, PhD 2023), Joao Silva (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal), Sarah C. Reiff (physics), Iogann Tolbatov (physics, PhD 2015), Mariusz Trzcinski (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland), Steffi Vogel (University of Potsdam, Germany), Xueqiang Zhang (chemistry, PhD 2016), Samuel Zoettl (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Patricia Alquiza (Environmental Sciences), Emily Bell (REU student, Monmouth College), Aysia Bittinger (REU student, University of North Georgia), Elizabeth Briley (REU student, UC Long Beach), John Brems (Physics in Medicine), Emily Clark (REU student, North Arizona University), Beatriz de Campos Silva (Physics in Medicine, AL/SC Honors Program), E. Victoria Canseco (REU student, U Texas at El Paso), Alex Cantrell (Science Business), Daniel Childers (Physics in Medicine, Honors Program), Spencer Clark (Physics, Honors Program), Ben Coffey (Electrical Engineering & ROTC), Erika Escobar (REU student, UC Long Beach), Chris Ferari (Neuroscience and behavior), Mattison Flakus (REU student U Rochester), Victor Garcia (REU student, U Texas at El Paso), Richard Garnett (COOP student), Chris Giaimo (Biological Sciences), Zach Imholte (Electrical Engineering, Physics), Neil Jairath (Computer Science), Kemo Jammeh (Mathematics, Physics, and Biochemistry, Berea College), Andrew Jensen (Science Business), Taylor Johnson (Physics in Medicine), Brendan Jones (Physics), Justin Jones (pre-professional), Joanna Kabuye (Pre-professional), Giorgi Kharchilava (Physics, AL/SC Honors Program), Jacob Kennard (biochemistry), Paul Kinkopf (Honors Program, Physics in Medicine), Tessa Klein (Physics, Honors Program), Emmy Kunce (Honors Program, Physics in Medicine), Kinsey Lee (REU student, Scripps College), Joe Levri (Electrical Engineering), Ziyu (Sharon) Li (Physics), Daniel Lipa (Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics), Catie Luck (RUE student, Thomas More College), Gonzalos Mallea (Mechanical engineering), Raymond Mumme (Physics, Chemistry), Max Nguyen (Physics), Collin Pallissery (English), Andrew Porrazzo (Neuroscience and Behavior), Melissa Quevedo (REU student, University of Atlántico, Colombia), Neal Ravindra (Physics in Medicine), Emil Sundang Peters (Stockholm University, Sweden), Harrison Schurr (Physics in Medicine), Diana Spulber (Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, Physics, Honors Program), Tanner Tarkleson (Honors Program, Neuroscience and Behavior), Cole Weber (Physics in Medicine), Wai Yeng Wong (Chemical Engineering, Economy), Elek Wellman (Neuroscience and Behavior), Daniel Williams (Physics), Hulin (John) Yang (REU student Xi’an Jiao Tong University), James Yurkovich (Electrical Engineering), Wei Zha (REU student Xi’an Jiao Tong University), Yijia (Jessica) Zhou (Mathematics)
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Christian Huntington, Ben Kolda, Emmy Kunce, Pramod Kamalapathy, Joseph Patus