Binek Research Group

Ather

Ather Mahmood
Postdoc
310X Jorgensen Hall

Syed

Syed Qamar Abbas Shah
Gradstudent
310V Jorgensen Hall

Abhilash

Abhilash Mishra 
Gradstudent
Jorgensen Hall

Caleb

Caleb Esquibel 
Undergraduate student

Brett

Brett Wiltgen 
Undergraduate student

group 2023

Group photo October 2023 - from left: Brett Wiltgen (undergraduate), Caleb Esquibel (undergraduate), Ather Mahmood (postdoc), Abhilash Mishra (graduate student), Christian Binek, Syed Qamar Abbas Shah (graduate student). 

Former Group Members (graduate students and postdocs)
  • 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)
  • 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