Principal Investigator
Michael Downer [faculty page] [email]
Distinguished University Teaching Professor
College of Natural Sciences Distinguished Professor
Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, TX 78712-1081
Ph.D. 1983 Harvard University
Fellow, American Physical Society & Optical Society of America
Office PMA 10.320
Labs PMA 2.406, 2.408, 2.410, 2.412
Research Scientists
Rafal Zgadzaj
Farbod Shafiei
Graduate Students
Jason Brooks
Ross Rudzinsky
Jose Franco Altamirano
Timothy Araujo
[email]
“I am interested in ultrafast lasers.”
Yuxuan Cao
[email]
Isabella Pagano
Bryan Dinh
Leslie Zhang
Ze Ouyang
[email]
[personal website]
Dominik Stec
Alumni
Former PhD students
Xiantao Cheng, grduated in 2023
Thesis:
Current position: Postdoc, Shanghao Jiao Tong University
Maxwell LaBerge, graduated in 2022
Thesis:
Current position:
Hai-En Tsai, graduated in 2015
Thesis: Tunable quasi-monoenergetic Compton x-ray source from laser-plasma accelerator
Current position:
Zhengyan Li, graduted in 2014
Thesis: Single-shot visualization of evolving, light-speed refractive index structures
Current position: Professor, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Former Postdocs