DR. AN TA

Contact: anta@ufl.edu

DR. R. SEATON ULLBERG

Seaton received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering  in 2019 and his Ph.D. in 2024 from the University of Florida.

Contact: sullberg@ufl.edu

JINYI LIU

Jinyi Liu completed his bachelor’s degree at Sichuan University in 2019. In 2021, he came to Gainesville and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree supervised by Dr. Simon Phillpot. His research interests are related to the nuclear domain, including next-generation nuclear fuels and nuclear waste sequestration. 

ALHASSAN ISSAKA

Alhassan earned his Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Technology in 2018 from Ghana, majoring in economics, and a master’s degree in environmental engineering from Central South University in China in 2022 where he worked on developing advanced adsorbents for wastewater treatment technologies. He is now a PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering, co-advised by Dr. Simon Phillpot and Dr. Michael Tonks. His current  research focuses on using a multiscale computational approach to understand material damage in extreme environments, such as irradiation, and comparing these mechanisms with recrystallization.

Contact: alhassanissaka@ufl.edu

Md. RAKIB HOSSAIN

Md. Rakib Hossain completed his Bachelor of Science in Physics at Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, followed by a Master of Science at the same institution, where he conducted research on the interaction dynamics of small drug molecules and toxic environmental gases with low-dimensional nanomaterials using Density Functional Theory. Presently, he is advancing his academic pursuits as a PhD candidate in Dr. Simon Phillpot’s research group. His doctoral work is distinguished by its focus on the development of an advanced machine learning potential to elucidate the intricate physical nature of phonon-dislocation interactions and to quantify their impact on the phonon thermal transport properties within PbSe, PbTe, and PbSe/PbTe heterostructures.