Neupane’s group

@ November 07, 2025

@ March 04, (2023)

Principal Investigator

Madhab Neupane

Dr. Neupane received his Ph.D. in Physics from Boston College, Boston, MA, in 2010. He spent four years (2011–2014) as a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and one year (2015–2016) as a Director’s Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM. He joined the University of Central Florida (UCF) in 2016 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020, and Professor in 2025.  He is the recipient of several honors, including the Director’s Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2015), the NSF CAREER Award (2019), the UCF Luminary Award (2019), and the UCF Research Incentive Award (RIA) (2020). Dr. Neupane has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics based on Web of Science data for six consecutive years (2019–2024). His research focuses on the electronic and spin properties of novel quantum materials. He employs a range of spectroscopic techniques to investigate not only the intriguing electronic and spin characteristics, but also the momentum-resolved dynamical properties of the bulk and symmetry-protected properties of the surface in these materials. Neupane has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in the field of quantum materials.

Graduate Students

1. Iftakhar Bin Elius
2. Milo Sprague 
3. Mazharul Islam Mondal
4. Nathan Valadez
5. Arun Kumay
6. FNU Himanshu
7. Dante James
8. Nia Suitt (APS Bridge fellow; from summer 2025)

Undergraduate Students

1. Taleah Fields, Oak Ridge High School, Orlando, FL, Summer 2025
2. Hope Ugwuoke, Timber Creek High School, Orlando, FL, Summer 2022
3. Elizabeth Ameyibor, Jones High School, Orlando, FL, Summer 2021
4. Omar Kousa, University High School, Orlando, FL, Summer 2021
5. Leyna O’Brien, Seabreeze High School, Daytona Beach, FL, Summer 2021

Alumni

1. Anup Pradhan Sakhya – Postdoctoral fellow from Spring 2021 to Fall 2025; currently a faculty member at Hiroshima University, Japan.

2. Troie Journigan – Postdoctoral fellow from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025; currently a postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University.

3. Yang Yang Liu – Postdoctoral fellow from Fall 2017 to Fall 2022; currently a faculty member at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China.

4. Sabin Regmi, Ph.D. in Physics, Fall 2022 — Currently a postdoctoral researcher at Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls.

5. Gyanendra Dhakal, Ph.D. in Physics, Spring 2022 — Currently at Intel Corporation, Portland, Oregon.

6. Firoza Kabir, Ph.D. in Physics, Fall 2021 — Currently at Intel Corporation, Portland, Oregon; previously a postdoctoral researcher at Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls.

7. Mofazzel Hosen, Ph.D. in Physics, Spring 2020 — Currently at Intel Corporation, Portland, Oregon; previously a postdoctoral researcher at Boston College.

8. Robert Smith, B.Sc. in Physics, Fall 2019 – Spring 2023, Honors Undergraduate Thesis — Currently a graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder.

9. Klauss Dimitri, B.Sc. in Physics and Aerospace Engineering, 2021, Honors Undergraduate Thesis — Currently at Lockheed Martin Corporation, Orlando.

10. Christopher Sims, M.Sc. in Physics, 2021 — Currently at Purdue University.

11. William Neff, B.Sc. in Physics, 2019.

12. Arsene Landry Tatke, Spring 2020.

13. Luis Persaud, Fall 2018 – 2022.

14. Hector Vazquez, Engineering, 2021 — Currently at Lockheed Martin Corporation, Orlando.

15. Alex Agosto, Graduate student in Physics at UCF, Fall 2022 – Fall 2023.

16. Damani Jarrett, Spring 2023 – Fall 2023 — APS Bridge Fellow.

17. Kali Booth, Spring 2022 – Fall 2023 — Graduate student.

18. Justin Scrivens, Summer 2023 – Fall 2024.

19. Peter Radanovich, Spring 2024 – Summer 2025.

20. Avike Seal, Spring 2024 – Present (Summer 2025).