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Alumni Spotlight – Laura Jennings

Laura Jennings graduated from Wake Forest in 2018 and now works in Fiber Optics for a communications company in Berlin. While an undergraduate student at Wake, she worked in the laboratory of Professor Oana Jurchescu conducting research on organic semiconductors and perovskites. In an interview […]


Alumni Spotlight – Peter Diemer

Dr. Peter Diemer graduated from the Wake Forest Ph.D. program in 2016 and now works as the lead physicist for ohsnap, a phone accessory manufacturer. While a graduate student at Wake he worked in the laboratory of Professor Oana Jurchescu conducting research on organic semiconductors. […]


Prof Stephen Winter named Gale Family Faculty Fellow

Assistant Professor Stephen Winter was named the Gale Family Faculty Fellow. The Wake Forest College Faculty Fellowships are fellowships that honor our best teacher-scholars. Dr. Winter has excelled as a teacher in the classroom and as a mentor for members of the excellent research group he […]


Congratulations Ajay Kandada and Steve Winter

Congratulations to Professors Ajay Kandada and Steve Winter for each winning a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation! These grants are awarded to junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and together they total over $1 million. See


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. […]


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