Neupane’s group

(@ March 4, 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.

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Anup Pradhan Sakhya (Spring 2021 to present) 

Troie Journigan (Fall 2024 to present)

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. Yang Yang Liu, postdoctoral fellow from 2017- 2022, currently a faculty at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China.
2. Robert Smith, B. Sc. Physics, from fall 2019 – spring 2023, Honors Undergraduate Theses (currently graduate student at UC Boulder),
3. Kali Booth, from spring  to summer 2023, , B. Sc. Physics (currently graduate student at UCF)
4. Sabin Regmi,  Ph. D. Physics, Fall, 2022 (currently  postdoc at Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls)
5. Gyanendra Dhakal, Ph.D. Physics Spring, 2022 (currently at Intel Corporation, Portland Oregon)
6.  Firoza Kabir, Ph. D. Physics Fall, 2021 (currently at Intel Corporation, Portland Oregon; past: postdoc at Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls)
7. Mofazzel Hosen, Ph.D. Physics Spring, 2020 (currently at Intel Corporation, Portland Oregon; past: postdoc at Boston College)
8. Klauss Dimitri, B.Sc. Physics and Aerospace Engineering 2021, Honors Undergraduate Theses  (currently at Lockheed Martin Corporation, Orlando)
9. Christopher Sims, M. Sc. Physics 2021 (currently at Purdue University)
10. William Neff, B. Sc. Physics 2019
11. Arsene Landry Tatke, spring 2020
12. Luis Persaud from fall 2018 – 2022
13. Hector Vazquez , Engineering 2021,  (Currently at Lockheed Martin Corporation, Orlando)
14. Alex Agosto, Graduate student at UCF physics from fall 2022- fall 2023
15. Damani Jarrett, spring 2023 – fall 2023 ; APS bridge fellow
16. Kali Booth; spring 2022 to fall 2023; graduate student
17. Justin Scrivens, summer 2023 – fall 2024