Binek Research Group

Group photo August 2025 - from left: Abhilash Mishra (graduate student), Ather Mahmood (postdoc), Caleb Esquibel (undergraduate student), Christian Binek,  Aditi Das (graduate student), Heejae Cho (graduate student). 

Former Group Members (graduate students and postdocs)

• Dr. Syed Qamar Abbas Shah
  Graduate student - 2024 (Thesis: Voltage-Controlled Spintronics and Fundamentals of Magnetoelectricity in Magnetoelectric Antiferromagnetic Chromia)
  now Module Development Engineer at Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon 
• Dr. Will Echtenkamp
  Graduate student -2021, (Thesis: Voltage-Controlled Magnetization in Chromia-based Magnetic Heterostructures)  
  now Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Minnesota
• Dr. Junlei Wang
  Graduate student 2013-2017, Postdoc 2017-2020 (Thesis: Voltage-Controllable Magnetoelectrics: New Thin Film Material and Characterization)  
  now Professor in the Center for Optics Research and Engineering (CORE) at Shandong University, China
• Dr. Mike Street
  Graduate student 2013-2018 (Thesis: Advancing Magnetoelectric Thin Film Growth for Ultra-Low Power Spintronic Applications)  
  now Preamp Engineer II at Seagate Technology 
• Dr. Srinivas Polisetty
  Graduate student 2004-2009 (Thesis: Exchange bias training effect in magnetically coupled bilayers)
  now Characterization Physicist at Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
• Dr. Tathagata Mukherjee
  Graduate student 2005-2011 (Thesis: Thermodynamics of Magnetic multilayers)
  now Principal Engineer at Western Digital - San Jose, California
• Dr. Xi He
  Graduate student 2004-2012 (Thesis: The Electrically Controlled Exchange Bias)
  now Research Associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory
  Oxide Molecular Beam Epitaxy Group of Dr. Ivan Božović
• Dr. Sarbeswar Sahoo - Postdoctoral researcher  (2006-2008)
  now R&D Engineer at Seagate Technology 

Former Group Members (undergraduate students)

• Brett Wiltgen 
• Tanar Fairchild 
  undergraduate 2017 - 2019
  now with Nebraska Public Power District - Cooper Nuclear Station (CNS), Brownville, NE
• Ted Larson
• Keith Jones
  undergraduate 2004-2010
  now at GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Health, Lincoln NE