Thesis & Dissertation Announcements - Physics

Fall 2025

Kathleen McIntyre

Investigations and Simulations: A Data-Driven Approach to Exoplanet Characterization

Theodoros Panagiotakopoulos

AB Initio Studies of Electrochemical Processes: Insights into CO₂ Reduction and Hydrogen Evolution Reactions

Conner Penson

A Theoretical Study Investigation of Molecular Photoionization: Applications to Molecules of Astrophysical and Atmospheric Interest

Daniel Oleynik

Visibility, Viability, and Voice: A Mixed-Methods Study of Disability in Physics Education and Careers

Christopher Lantigua

Field Resolved Metrology for Attosecond Timing

SUMMER 2025

Peter Braunschweig

Neural Network Accelerated Retrieval of Clear Brown Dwarf Atmospheres

Sohila M. AbdelHafiz

Optomechanical Interactions and Dynamics in Nanoparticle Systems

Kenneth E. Goodis Gordon

Preparing for the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Spectropolarimetric Radiative Transfer Models of Terrestrial (Exo)planets

Autumn N. Shackelford

From Microns to Mons: Investigating Airless Body Surface Properties and Processes

Dipendra Khatri

Sub-cycle nonlinear optics in solids

Christina D. Moraitis

Advancing Ground-Based Instrumentation with Astrophotonics for Stellar Astrophysics and Time-Domain Spectroscopy

Spring 2025

Fritjofson, Gregory

Gregory Fritjofson

Terahertz Spin-Pumping in Antiferromagnetic Crystals and Film

Stephanie Lough

Optical and Tunneling Spectroscopy of Single-Layer Van Der Waals Materials on Metals and Probe Tip Engineering of High Resolution STM and AFM for Imaging of Molecules on Silicon Surfaces

Mary Hinkle

The Global Thermophysical Properties of (433) Eros

Premadasage Kithsiri Kapila Kumarasinghe

Study of the Superconducting and normal states properties of topological nodal-line semimetals

Brandon Dotson

The Influence of Regolith Properties and Environmental Conditions on Plume-Surface Interactions

Fall 2024

Alphonse Marra

Kaige Shi

Elucidating the Effects of Cations and Electrode Wettability on Electrocatalysis

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