Dr. Jedediah H. Pixley
Professor
Director of the Center for Materials Theory
email: jed.pixley@physics.rutgers.edu
Office: E264 Serin
Group
Principal Investigator
Postdocs
Daniel Munoz Segovia
email: dm2098@physics.rutgers.edu
Office: E254 Serin
Graduate Students
Yicheng Tang
email: yt291@physics.rutgers.edu
Kemal Aziz
email: ka784@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Shiv Patel
email: srp230@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Elizaveta Trunina
et438@physics.rutgers.edu
Udit Guntumadugu
ug44@physics.rutgers.edu
Undergraduate Students
Keshav Badri
email: kb1262@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Available Positions:
Postdoc positions available, please apply here!
Past Members
Postdocs
Haining Pan, 2023-2026, Assistant Professor at the University of Florida
Daniel Kaplan, CMT Group Postdoc 2023-2026, Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida
Yueqing Chang, CMT Group Postdoc 2022-2025, Postdoctoral scholar at CCQ Flatiron institute
Ahana Chakraborty, CMT Group Postdoc 2021-2024, Assistant Professor at LSU
Pavel Volkov, CMT Group Postdoc 2018-2022, Assistant Professor at University of Connecticut
Junhyun Lee 2020-2022, Research Scientist at Samsung
Justin Wilson 2018-2021, Assistant Professor at LSU
Gradaute Students
Kevin Lucth, Thesis “Strongly Correlated and Topological Phases in Two-Dimensional Materials”, Joined Spring 2022, Graduated Summer 2026. Postdoc at University of Wisconsin Maddison.
Jinjing Yi, Thesis “Two dimensional Dirac semimetals near the magic-angle: Excitations, interactions, interactions, impurities, and methods”, Joined Fall 2019, Graduated Fall 2024. Started at Goldman and Sachs 2025.
Angkun Wu, Thesis “The impurity problem, non-linear transport, and dynamics in quantum electronic systems without translational symmetry,” Joined Spring 2018, Graduated Spring 2023. Postdoctoral Scholar at Los Alamos National Lab.
Aidan Zabalo, Thesis “Characterization of measurement-induced phase transitions in random quantum circuits”, joined Fall 2018, graduated Spring 2022. Data scientist at Prudential.
Yixing Fu, Thesis “Topological Phases of Matter with Disorder and Quasiperiodicity”, joined Fall 2017, graduated Fall 2021 . Data Scientist at Doordash.
Visiting Gradaute Students
Miguel de Jesus Mestre Gonçalves, University of Lisbon, visited month of February 2023.
Mahaveer Prasad, ICTS Bangalore India, visited Fall semester 2022.
Gal Shkolnik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, visited month of September 2022.
Undergradautes
Elisha Shmalo, graduated Spring 2026, Masters Student at Weizmann.
Joshua Karten, graduated Spring 2026
Jeremiah Hou, graduated Spring 2025, PhD Student in Physics at UC Davis
Cormac Grindall, graduated Spring 2024, PhD student in Mathematical Physics at Northwestern.
Yuri Styrkas
Kyle Bomeisl