Giuseppe Strangi

Giuseppe is Professor of Physics at Case Western Reserve University and holds an Endowed Chair position as Ohio Research Scholar on Surfaces in Advanced Materials. He is affiliated with IAM – Institute for Advanced Materials at CWRU and with CNR – National Research Council, Italy.

Andrew Lininger

Andy is Director of the Materials for Opto/Electronics Research and Education (MORE) at Case Western Reserves University. He is from Garrettsville, Ohio and his current research activities include designing and fabricating optical metasurfaces, including reconfigurable systems, and applying machine learning for photonic design. In his free time, Andy enjoys hiking in the CVNP.

Jonathan Boyd

Jonathan Boyd is a PhD candidate in the Department of Physics. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Kent State University. His research focuses on plasmonics in semiconductors and on properties of metamaterials. Specifically, he is focusing on IR excitations in boron doped diamonds and has investigated liquid crystal integration in flat metalenses. He enjoys playing fetch with his goldendoodle Sylvie and watching past seasons of Survivor with his wife Emily.

Akeshi Aththanayake

Akeshi is a fourth-year Ph.D. student from Kandy, Sri Lanka. Her current research activities include Cavity QED using ultrafast optics and ENZ materials. In her free time, she enjoys hot yoga at little Italy yoga studio and also swimming as an exercise to burn up some calories.

Elizabeth Zhou

Elizabeth Zhou is a senior at Case Western Reserve University majoring in Physics and Astronomy. Her current interests in research lies in metalens and metasurface design and tunability. In her free time, Elizabeth enjoys drawing and playing TTRPGs.

Khoi Anh Pham

Khoi Anh is a junior majoring in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. His research is in liquid crystal infiltrated metalens and random lasing behavior in metamaterial. In his free time, Khoi Anh likes to play the guitar and badminton.