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Faculty Service Milestones

As the year 2023 comes to an end we recognize and honor faculty members who have reached milestones in the duration of their service to Wake Forest University. Professors K. Burak Üçer, David Carroll and Timo Thonhauser have now reached 25, 20, and 15 years […]


Congratulations Katie Koch

Congratulations to Katie Koch on winning 2nd place poster prize in the symposium “EL02- Emerging Ultrafast Optical and Structural Probes in Materials Science” at the Fall Materials Research Society conference! Katie is mentored by Professor Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada. Her presentation was about photo-excitation dynamics in metal halide perovskite nanocrystals […]


Alumni Spotlight – Evan Welchman

Dr. Evan Welchman graduated from the Wake Forest Ph.D. program in 2017 and now works as a System Architect for Van Robotics. While a graduate student at Wake he worked in the laboratory of Professor Timo Thonhauser conducting research on materials which can be used […]


Alumni Spotlight – Sajant Anand

Meet Sajant Anand, Wake Forest University Physics class of 2018. Sajant is now a PhD student at UC Berkeley working in the research laboratory of Professor Mike Zalatel. While an undergraduate student at Wake, he was mentored by Professor Oana Jurchescu. Professor Jurchescu now interviews […]


Alumni Spotlight – Angela Harper

Meet Angela Harper, Wake Forest Physics major class of 2017. While an undergraduate student at Wake they performed research in the laboratory of Professor Oana Jurchescu. Now they are a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society. In the following […]


Alumni Spotlight – Claire McLellan

Meet Dr. Claire McLellan, Wake Forest Physics Major class of 2012. Dr. McLellan is now a Senior Physical Scientist at the United States Government Accountability Office. In the following interview Professor Macosko discusses with Dr. Mclellan her career path and experiences as a student. Prof. […]


Alumni Spotlight – Parker Hopkins

Meet Parker Hopkins, Wake Forest Physics and Mathematics Major class of 2021. Parker now works in the financial sector. In the following interview Professor Macosko discusses with Parker his experiences as a student and career path. Parker provides valuable advice to students regarding education, career, […]


Alumni Spotlight – Jason Grigsby

Meet Dr. Jason Grigsby, Wake Forest Physics Ph.D. class of 2009. Dr. Grigsby has traversed a diverse career path, from working as a Postdoctoral associate studying neuroscience to assuming the duty of a software engineer. In the following interview Professor Salsbury discusses with Dr. Grigsby […]


Alumni Spotlight – Ryan Godwin

Dr. Ryan Godwin graduated from the Wake Forest Physics PhD program in 2017. Now he is a Professor of Data Scientist at the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Medicine. In the following interview Professor Salsbury discusses with Professor Godwin his experiences at Wake Forest […]


Alumni Spotlight – Ryan Melvin

Dr. Ryan Melvin graduated from the Wake Forest Physics PhD program in 2018. Now he is an Assistant Professor and Principal Data Scientist at the University of Alabama, and the inaugural holder of the Endowed Faculty Scholar for Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning. In […]


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