Costel R. Rotundu

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

August 2018 - present
Independent Scholar
(currently mainly collaboating with groups at Stanford University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Caltech)

March 2018 - August 2018
GLAM Associate
(with Professor Ian R. Fisher, main collaborators Dr. Patrick Kirchmann and Professors David Hsieh and Zhi-Xun Shen)
Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials GLAM, at Stanford University
Stanford, California

September 2014 - February 2018
Research Associate - Experimental
(with Professor Young S. Lee, main collaborators Dr. Patrick Kirchmann, Professors David Hsieh, Zhi-Xun Shen, and Ian R. Fisher)
Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences SIMES, a joint Institute of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University
Menlo Park, California

October 2013 - June 2014
Assistant Researcher/ from Professional Research Series
(with Assistant Professor Ni Ni)
Physics & Astronomy UCLA
Los Angeles, California

June 2008 - June 2012
Materials Postdoctoral Felow
(with Professor Robert J. Birgeneau, main collaborators Professors Stephen D. Wilson, Alessandra Lanzara, and Norman E. Phillips)
Materials Sciences Division (Quantum Materials Program),
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, California

January 2007 - May 2008
Research Associate
(with Professor Richard L. Greene)
Maryland Quantum Materials Center QMC,
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
&
May 2007 - May 2008
Visiting Investigator
(main collaborators Drs. Viktor V. Struzhkin and Alexander Goncharov)
Earth and Planets Laboratory (Matter at Extreme States),
Carnegie Science
Washington DC

EDUCATION

August 2001 - December 2006
Ph.D. in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, thesys "Novel Heavy Fermion Behavior in Praseodymium-Based Materials: Experimental Study of PrOs₄Sb₁₂", adviser Dr. Bohdan Andraka
Physics Department,
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida