Alumni News

January 24th, 2018
Caitlin Murphy was a Carnegie Fellow working with Yingwei Fei and with CDAC/Russell Hemley from 2012-2014. At the time she was interested in understanding how defects and impurities influence the structural, vibrational, and electronic properties of materials at high pressures.
December 2nd, 2016
Katie Brown received her Ph.D. in 2012 working with CDAC Academic Partner Dana Dlott at the University of Illinois. She focused on the development of a technique to measure the global and local environments of inhomogeneous materials shocked with laser-driven flyer plates. Katie became interested in high pressure research while collaborating with...
November 3rd, 2016
Two former CDAC Summer scholars are now graduate students in the research group of current CDAC Academic Partner Dion Heinz and colleague Andy Campbell, in the University of Chicago’s Department of the Geophysical Sciences. Bethany Chidester was a Summer Scholar in 2010, while she was a student at the University of Toledo; Anne Davis was a Summer...
May 3rd, 2016
Former Carnegie Postdoctoral Associate and CDAC collaborator Elissaios Stavrou was appointed to Staff Scientist as a Condensed Matter Physicist in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Stavrou was a visiting investigator at GL from 2011-2012 and a Postdoctoral Associate from 2012-2013. He started at LLNL as a...
March 23rd, 2016
Former Carnegie Summer Scholar Viktor Rozsa, currently a graduate student at the University of Chicago, has been awarded a DOE-NNSA graduate fellowship. During the summer of 2012, Viktor worked with Tim Strobel on hydrogen loading in β-hydroquinone at high pressure, studies that led to a publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters....
February 9th, 2016
Former Carnegie Intern Maneeshika Madduri is featured in a Spotlight Profile on the Stanford University Electrical Engineering website.
January 6th, 2016
Former CDAC Student, Research Scientist, and Academic Partner Jung-Fu Lin, currently at the University of Texas - Austin, was recently elected a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America.
April 27th, 2015
Former Carnegie Intern Maneeshika Madduri has joined Sandia National Laboratory as an R&D S&D Computer Engineer. Maneeshika was a high school summer intern at Carnegie from 2007 to 2009 and for a full year during her senior year as a part of Thomas Jefferson High School's school researcher program. She was semifinalists in the Siemens...
January 30th, 2015
Former Carnegie-CDAC summer undergraduate intern Andrea F. Young is now an Assistant Professor at the University of California - Santa Barbara. Andrea worked with former CDAC scientist Eugene Gregoryanz (now at the University of Edinburgh) during the summer of 2005, while he was a student at Columbia University. He received his PhD from Columbia...
November 25th, 2014
Former Carnegie/CDAC Postdoctoral Associate, Subramanian Natarajan, received the Indian Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) Science & Technical Excellence Award from the Chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission. He was presented with the award on October 30th in Mumbai, India. The award was received in part for research carried out at...
October 10th, 2014
Four LANL scientists, Nenad Velisavljevic (former CDAC student at University of Alabama - Birmingham and current HPCAT Executive Committee member), Raja Chellappa (former CDAC student at University of Alabama - Birmingham and former CDAC postdoc at Carnegie), Dana Dattelbaum, and Ramon Saavedra were recently awarded the DOE-NNSA Defense Programs...
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