Costel R. Rotundu

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

August 2018 - present
Independent Researcher
(currently mainly collaboating with groups at Stanford University, Caltech, UC Berkeley)

March 2018 - August 2018
GLAM Associate
(with Professor Ian R. Fisher)
Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials GLAM, at Stanford University
Stanford, California

September 2014 - February 2018
Research Associate - Experimental
(with Professor Young S. Lee)
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)
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
(with 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