Former Staff and Visitors

Staff 

  • Priscila Romagnoli Postdoc 2018-2020 (Postdoc, Quantum Machines Unit, OIST, Japan --> Senior Application Engineer, ANSYS Japan KK, Tokyo, Japan)
  • Jonathan Ward Staff Scientist 2012-2020 (Senior Technical Officer, University College Cork, Ireland)
  • Jean-Baptiste Ceppe Postdoc 2019-2020 (Postdoc, Université de Lille, France)
  • Fuchuan Lei Postdoc 2016-2019 (Postdoc, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden --> Professor, Northeast Normal University, China)
  • Tridib Ray Postdoc 2015-2019 (Postdoc, LKB Paris, Sorbonne University, France --> Research and Development Engineer, Welinq, France )
  • Xue Han Postdoc 2015-2018 (Associate Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China)
  • Wenfang Li Postdoc 2016-2018 (Postdoc, IQC University of Waterloo, Canada)
  • Jinjin Du Postdoc 2015-2018  (Postdoc, IQC University of Waterloo, Canada --> Postdoc, CQT Singapore)
  • Yong Yang 2011-2017 (Senior Research Fellow, Aston University, UK --> Professor, National Engineering Laboratory for Fiber Optical Sensing, Wuhan University of Technology, China)
  • Aysen Gurkan, Research Technician 2016-2017 (Technician, Neuronal Rhythms in Movement Unit, OIST)
  • Vikraman Karunanidhi, Research Technician 2015-2016
  • Marios Sergides - JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow 2013-2014, Postdoc 2014-2015 (Postdoc, University of Florence, Italy)
  • Ivan Gusachenko, Postdoc 2012-2015 (Postdoc, St. Andrews University, Scotland)
  • Vandna Gokhroo, Postdoc 2012-2015 (Postdoc, Washington State University, USA)
  • Vu Hong Le, Technician 2012-2015 (PhD studies, Karlsruhe University, Germany)
  • Bishwajeet Singh, Research Assistant 2014-2015 (PhD studies Osaka University, Japan)
  • Kieran Deasy, Postdoc 2012-2015 (Physics Resource Specialist, OIST)
  • Ciarán Phelan, Postdoc 2012-2014 (Postdoc, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil  --> Engineer at WaveOptics, UK)
  • Nitesh Dhasmana, Research Assistant 2013-2014 (PhD studies at CREOL, University of Central Florida, USA)
  • Alan Curtis, Technician 2012-2013 (Technician Shell E&P, Ireland)
  • Momoko Zamami, Research Administrator 2011-2012
  • Vibhuti Bhushan Tiwari, Postdoc 2011-2012 (Senior Scientist, RRCAT, India)

Intern/Project/Rotation Students 

  • Alexey Vylegzhanin, OIST Independent Study on Basics of Laser Cooling, September-December 2020
  • Maria Carla Lupa, OIST Rotation Student September-December 2020, MSc University Politehnica of Bucharest Romania
  • Kang-Yu Chu, OIST Rotation Student September-December 2020, MSc National Cheng Kung University Taiwan
  • Angzhen Li, Visiting Research Student October 2019-October 2020, Harbin Engineering University China
  • Jaime Rivera, Research Intern June-September 2020, MSc University of Philippines 
  • Jibo Yu, Visiting Research Student September 2019-September 2020, Harbin Engineering University China
  • Irina Korshok, OIST Rotation Student, May-August 2020
  • Alexey Vylegzhanin, OIST Rotation Student, May-August 2020
  • René Henke,  DAAD-JSPS Fellowship Visiting Research Student April 2019-August 2020, University of Münster Germany
  • Zohreh Shahrabifarahani, Research Intern Student October-April 2020 (PhD OIST)
  • Tai Tran, OIST Rotation Student January-April 2020
  • Soma Mishra, Research Intern Student October-April 2020, BSc-MSc BITS Pilani India 
  • Monika Eggenberger, OIST Rotation Student, September - December 2019
  • Paul Wood, Research Intern Student, Cork Institute of Technology Ireland, March-August 2019
  • Antoine Pichené, Research Intern Student, Institut d'Optique Aquitaine France, February-August 2019
  • Mathieu Couillard, MITACS-JSPS Summer Intern Student, Concordia University, Canada, June-August 2019 (PhD student OIST)
  • Simon Jeffers, Research Intern Student, Cork Institute of Technology Ireland, March-July 2019
  • Ianto Cannon, OIST Rotation Student, January-April 2019
  • Kristine Faith Roque, OIST Rotation Student, January-April 2019
  • Muhammad Hasan Sirajul, OIST Rotation Student, January-April 2019
  • Dr Aditya Saxena, Visiting Researcher, IIT Kanpur India, May 2018-March 2019 (Postdoc, NanoLund, Lund University, Sweden)
  • Ivan Toftul, Visiting Research Student, ITMO St. Petersburg Russia, June-December 2018
  • Stephy Vincent, Research Intern, Sacred Heart College India, July-December 2018
  • Elliot Harvie, Research Intern, St Andrews University Scotland, July-December 2018
  • Theodoros Bouloumis, OIST Rotation Student, April-August 2018
  • Lewis Ruks, OIST Rotation Student, May-August 2018
  • Taylor Douglas, Research Intern, Rowan University USA, May-August 2018
  • Aditya Saxena, Visiting Student, IIT Kanpur, December-April 2018
  • Kalyani Thakur, Research Intern, Amity University, India, January-March 2018
  • Hassan Kazi, Research Intern, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, October-March 2018
  • Anjana Krishnadas, Research Intern, IISER-Kolkata, India, September-March 2018
  • Maki Maeda, OIST Rotation Student, September-December 2017
  • Lina Koronfel, OIST Rotation Student, September-December 2017
  • Lewis Bartos Picard, Research Intern, Durham University, UK, July-September 2017
  • Joanna Lis, Research Intern, UCL, UK, July-September 2017
  • Christine Guzman, OIST PhD Rotation Student, May-August 2017
  • Mayuri Kawale, Research Intern, IISER-Kolkata, India, May-July 2017
  • Prince Sunil Thomas, Research Intern, MSc Graduate UCD, Ireland, January-May 2017
  • Haritha Kambalathmana, Research Intern, CUSAT, Cohin, India, January-May 2017
  • Masakazu Taira, Rotation Student, January-April 2017
  • Chris Campbell, Rotation Student, January-April 2017
  • Rafino Murphy, Research Intern, BSc Graduate NUI Maynooth, Ireland, October 2016-April 2017
  • Maria Langbecker, DAAD-JSPS Funded Research Intern, PhD Student, University of Mainz, Germany, January-March 2017
  • Yan Chen, Research Intern, Jilin University, China, January-March 2017
  • Shicheng Zhang, Research Intern, PhD Student, East China UST, China, October-December 2016
  • Jan von Keitz, Research Intern, University of Muenster, Germany, July-September 2016
  • Ratnesh Kumar Gupta, Rotation Student, May-August 2016 
  • Sakthi Priya Amirtharaj, Research Intern, IIT-Madras, India, May-July 2016
  • Mayuri Kawale, Research Intern, IISER-Kolkata, India, May-July 2016
  • Nikol Lambeva, Research Intern, University of Birmingham, UK, July 2016
  • Wenfang Li, Research Intern, PhD Student, Shanxi University, China, December-May 2016
  • Pei Zeng, Research Intern, Nanjing University, China, October-December 2015
  • Cindy Esporlas, Rotation Student, September-December 2015
  • Sahar Hejazy, Rotation Student, September-December 2015
  • Sho Kasumie, Rotation Student, September-December 2015
  • Sanele Dlamini, Research Intern, PhD student UKZN, South Africa, July-December 2015
  • Christiane Ebongue, Research Intern, University of Maryland, USA, April-September 2015
  • Colum O'Leary, Research Intern, TCD, Ireland, June-September 2015
  • Krishnapriya Subramonian Rajasree, OIST rotation student, May-August 2015
  • Ruth Thompson, OIST rotation student, May-August 2015
  • Tushar Kanti Saha, Research Intern, IISER-Kolkata, India, May-July 2015
  • Pranam Prakash, Research Intern, CUSAT, India January-May 2015 (Optics Designer, SFO Technologies, India)
  • Christina Lee, OIST Rotation student, January-April 2015
  • Yuta Ooka, Research Intern, Keio University, Japan, February-April 2015
  • Sunny Saurabh, Research Intern, RRI, India August 2014-March2015 (PhD studies MPI for Nuclear Physics, Germany)
  • Ali Seer, Research Intern, University of Konstanz, Germany October-March 2015
  • Simon Peter Mekhail, OIST PhD Rotation Student, August-December 2014
  • Vineetha Naniyil, Research Intern, RRI, India September-December 2014
  • James Schloss, OIST PhD Rotation Student, September-December 2014
  • Thomas Nieddu, OIST PhD Rotation Student, April-August 2014
  • Masakazu Igarashi, OIST PhD Rotation Student, May-August 2014
  • Krishnapriya SR, Research Intern, CUSAT, India June-August 2014 (PhD studies at OIST)
  • Himanshu Agarwal, Research Intern, IIT Kharaghur, India, May-July 2014 
  • Lisa Nakahara, Research Intern, University of Tsukuba, Japan, February-March 2014
  • Elaine Wong, OIST PhD Rotation Student, September-December 2013
  • Danny Riordan, Research Intern, University College Cork, Ireland,June-August 2013 (PhD studies at UCC)

Visitors 

  • Jaime Rivera, Research Intern, University of the Philippines, 23 June - 25 September 2020
  • Dr Isha Sankskriti, Visiting Researcher, 8 April 2020 - 31 January 2021
  • Dr Ravi Kumar, Atomionics Pte Ltd, Singapore, 11-12 March 2020
  • Arne Behrens, TU Ilmenau, Germany, 08 - 23 November 2019
  • Prof Ping Koy Lam, ANU, Australia, 31 October 2019
  • Dr Alexander Ling, National University of Singapore, 30 October 2019
  • Angzhen Li, Visiting Research Student, Harbin Engineering University, China 25 October 2019 - 21 October 2020
  • Dr Hsiang-Hua Jen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 21 - 25 October 2019
  • Zohreh Shahrabifarahani, Iran, 16 October 2019 - 30 April 2020
  • Soma Mishra, BITS Pilani, India, 15 October 2019 - 26 March 2020
  • Jibo Yu, Visiting Research Student, Harbin Engineering University, China 19 September 2019 - 14 September 2020
  • Itai Hyams, Technion, Israel, 2 - 13 September 2019
  • Baheej Bathish, Technion, Israel, 2 - 13 September 2019
  • Prof Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow, Scotland 01 - 02 August 2019
  • Prof Tomas Cizmar, Leibniz-IPHT Jena, Germany 31 July - 02 August 2019
  • Aaron Tranter, Australian National University, Australia 14 to 20 July 2019
  • Prof Xue Han, Dalian University of Technology, China 01 July - 30 August 2019
  • Mathieu Couillard, MITACS-JSPS Summer Fellow, Concordia University, Canada 18 June - 19 August 2019
  • Aashutosh Kumar, Université Grenoble Alpes/Institut Néel, France 07 June 2019
  • Erwan Stourm, Université Paris-Sud, France, France 07-14 June 2019
  • Ivan Toftul, ITMO University, Russia 07-14 June 2019
  • Prof Sankar De, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India 07-11 June 2019
  • René Henke, DAAD Fellow, Visiting Research Student, Universität Münster, Germany 25 April 2019 - 06 July 2020
  • Dr Peter Reece, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 22-25 April 2019
  • Dr Yong Yang, Aston University, UK 24 - 28 March 2019
  • Paul Wood, Research Intern, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland 18 March - 22 August 2019
  • Simon Jeffers, Research Intern, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland 18 March - 02 July 2019
  • Antoine Pichené, Research Intern, Institut d'Optique Aquitaine, France 25 February - 22 August 2019
  • Prof Robin (Chen-Bin) Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan 12 - 13 February 2019
  • Prof Mark Tame, Stellenbosch University, South Africa 30 January - 01 February 2019
  • Prof Jack Ya-Tang Yang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan 22-24 January 2019
  • Danil Kornovan, ITMO University, Russia 05 - 17 October 2018
  • Dr Samir Mondal, CISO Chandigarh, India 12-15 September 2018
  • Stephy Vincent, Research Intern, Sacred Heart College, India 04 July - 20 December 2018
  • Elliot Harvie, Research Intern, St Andrews University, Scotland 05 July - 13 December 2018
  • Max Ramsay, UCL, England 28 June 2018
  • Dr Joe Welch, UCL, England 28 June 2018
  • Ivan Toftul, Vising Research Student, ITMO University, Russia 26 June - 20 December 2018
  • Taylor Douglas, Research Intern, Rowan University, USA 28 May - 07 August 2018
  • Aditya Saxena, Visiting Researcher, IIT Kanpur, India May 2018 - September 2018
  • Erwan Stourm, Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, France 16-28 April 2018
  • Dr Dipankar Mondal, IIT Kharagpur, India 10-12 April 2018
  • Sylvain De Léséleuc, Institut d'Optique - Orsay, France 04-07 April 2018
  • Dr Yong Yang, Aston University, UK 01-09 April 2018
  • Prof Alexander Douplik, Ryerson University, Canada 27 February - 07 April 2018
  • Dr Priscila Romagnoli, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil 26-28 February 2018 
  • Dr Mihail Petrov, ITMO University, Russia 15-16 January 2018
  • Kalyani Thakur, Research Intern, Amity University, India 09 January - 29 March 2018
  • Aditya Saxena, IIT Kanpur, India December 2017 - April 2018
  • Dr Ritayan Roy, University of Sussex, UK 30 October - 15 November 2017
  • Sanele Dlamini, UKZN, South Africa 15-29 October 2017
  • Dr Yaseera Ismail, UKZN, South Africa 15-29 October 2017
  • Muhammad Hassan Kazi, Research Intern, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany 02 October-22 March 2018
  • Anjana Krishnadas, Research Intern, IISER, Kolkata, India 25 September 2017-20 March 2018
  • Dr Aili Maimaiti, 30 August-28 September 2017
  • Kassandra Knapper, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA 23-30 August 2017
  • Dr Xuefeng Jiang, WSU-St Louis, USA 13 August-09 September 2017
  • Lewis Russell Bartos Picard, Research Intern, Durham University, UK 20 July-28 September 2017
  • Joanna Lis, Research Intern, University College London, UK 6 July-28 September 2017
  • Wenjie Zhu, Wuhan University, China 12 - 18 June 2017
  • Prof Yoshiyuki Kakihana, Kagoshima University, Japan 2 June 2017
  • Prof Alexandre (Sasha) Douplik, Ryerson University, Canada 2-3 June 2017
  • Prof Jonathan P. Dowling, Louisiana State University, USA 30 May-3 June 2017
  • Prof Alexander Akoulchine, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia 30 May-3 June 2017
  • Prof Irina Novikova, College of William and Mary, USA 29 May-3 June 2017
  • Mayuri Kawale, Research Intern, IISER-Kolkata, India 17 May-1 August 2017
  • Prof Cornelia Denz, Universitaet Muenster, Germany 22-24 April 2017
  • Prof Lene Oddershede, Nils Bohr Institute, Denmark 22-24 April 2017
  • Prof Jasper Glückstad, DTU, Denmark 22-24 April 2017
  • Prof Takashige Omatsu, Chiba University, Japan 22-24 April 2017
  • Prof Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Chiba University, Japan 22-24 April 2017
  • Dr Yoshihiko Arita, University of St Andrews, UK 22-24 April 2017
  • Dr Ivan Gusachenko, St Andrews University, Scotland 16-18 April 2017
  • Prof Mikio Nakahara, Kindai University, Japan 21-23 March 2017
  • Prof Koji Maruyama, Osaka City University, Japan 21-23 March 2017
  • Prof Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow, Scotland 27 Feb - 01 Mar 2017
  • Prof Sadiqali Rangwala, Raman Research Institute, India 19 - 23 Feb 2017
  • Prince Sunil Thomas, Research Intern, UCD, Ireland 16 January - 18 May 2017
  • Haritha Kambalathmana, Research Intern, CUSAT, India 06 Jan - 02 May 2017
  • Maria Langbecker, DAAD-JSPS Fellowship, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany 10 January - 9 March 2017
  • Yan Chen, Research Intern, Jilin University, China 10 January - 03 March 2017
  • Prof Pengfei Wang, Harbin Engineering University, 07 December 2016 - 04 January 2017
  • Rafino Murphy, Research Intern, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 26 November 2016 - 19 April 2017
  • Shicheng Zhang, Research Intern, East China University of Science and Technology, China, 13 October - 28 December 2016
  • Prof Mark Sadgrove, Tohoku University, Japan, 16-19 August 2016
  • Nishant Dogra, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 1-3 August 2016
  • Dominik Hussmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 1-3 August 2016
  • Nikol Lambeva, Research Intern, University of Birmingham, UK  19 July-29 July 2016
  • Dr Dominika Lyzwa, MPI Dynamics and Self Organisation, Germany 01-08 July 2016
  • Jan von Keitz, Research Intern, Universitaet Muenster, Germany 01 July-18 September 2016
  • Dr Dominika Lyzwa, MPI Dynamics and Self Organisation, Germany 31 May-11 June 2016
  • Sakthi Priya Amirtharaj, Research Intern, IIT-Madras, India 17 May-29 July 2016
  • Mayuri Kawale, Research Intern, IISER-Kolkata, India 17 May-29 July 2016
  • Dr Maria Bardosova, Tyndall National Institute UCC Cork, Ireland, 17-19 April 2016
  • Prof Tiancai Zhang, Shanxi University, China 27-30 March 2016
  • Prof Ayan Banerjee, IISER-Kolkata, India 13-16 March 2016
  • Dr Cody Leary, The College of Wooster, USA 06 - 12 March 2016
  • Prof Patrick Windpassinger, University of Mainz, Germany 28 February - 02 March 2016
  • Prof Johannes Hecker-Denschlag, Institut für Quantenmaterie, Universität Ulm, Germany 23 - 26 February 2016
  • Prof Yunfeng Xiao, Peking University, China 20 January - 17 February 2016
  • Debanuj Chatterjee, SPIE Education and Scholarship Grant Holder, IISER-Kolkata, India 06 December - 02 January 2016
  • Wenfang Li, Research Intern, Shanxi University, China 01 December 2015 - 16 May 2016
  • Prof Mark Tame, UKZN, South Africa 11-12 November 2015
  • Dr Maarten Hoogerland, The University of Auckland, New Zealand 09-12 November 2015
  • Pei Zeng, Research Intern, Nanjing University, China 16 October - 28 December 2016
  • Prof Halina Rubinzstein-Dunlop, University of Queensland, Australia 28 September 2015
  • Prof Helmut Ritsch, University of Innsbruck, Austria 17-18 September 2015
  • Eugen Prel, University College Cork, Ireland 31 July - 12 December 2015
  • Sanele Dlamini, Research Intern, UKZN, South Africa 01 July - 15 December 2015
  • Colum O'Leary, Research Intern, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 17 June - 01 September 2015
  • Amir Tavala, Vienna Centre for Quantum Science and Technology, Austria 24 May-17 June 2015
  • Tushar Kanti Saha, Research Intern, IISER Kolkata, India 20 May - 20 July 2015
  • Raphael Dahan, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, 20-23 May 2015
  • Dr Pengfei Wang, DIT, Ireland, 15 May-13 June 2015
  • Dr Simon Hanna, University of Bristol, UK, 25-28 April 2015
  • Dr Yoshihiko Arita, University of St Andrews, Scotland, 25-28 April 2015
  • Prof Etienne Brasselet, University of Bordeaux I, France, 26-28 April 2015
  • Prof Jack Tsz Fai Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, 26-28 April 2015
  • Dr Andreas Schell, Kyoto University, Japan, 2-4 April 2015
  • Christiane Ebongue, Research Intern, University of Maryland, USA, 01 April-25 September 2015
  • Navin Prakash Ghimire, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, 29 March-01 April 2015
  • Dr Tomas Cizmar, University of Dundee, Scotland, 02-06 March 2015
  • Yuta Ooka, Research Intern, Keio University, Japan, 09 February-03 April 2015
  • Prof Fam Le Kien, TUV, Austria, 18-23 January 2015
  • Pranam Prakash, Research Intern, CUSAT, India, 06 January-04 May 2015
  • Yi Chen, Shanghai University, China, 05-31 January 2015
  • Mr Jinjin Du, Shanxi University, China, 01-05 December 2014
  • Mr Ali Seer, Research Intern, University of Constance, Germany 05 October - 31 March 2015
  • Ms Vineetha Naniyil, Research Intern, Raman Research Institute, India 08 September-26 December 2014
  • Mr Sunny Saurabh, Research Intern, formerly CUSAT and RRI, India 01 August-31 January 2015
  • Prof Mitsuhiro Terakawa, Keio University, Japan 29&30 July 2014
  • Dr Pengfei Wang, DIT, Ireland 17 July-09 August 2014
  • Prof Kishan Dholakia, St Andrew's University, Scotland 14-16 July 2014
  • Prof Wendy Gilleard, Southern Cross University, Australia 27-30 June 2014
  • Dr Mary Frawley, UCC, Ireland 03-27 June 2014 
  • Ms Krishnapriya S.R., Research Intern, CUSAT, India 01 June-05 August 2014
  • Prof Helmut Ritsch, University of Innsbruck, Austria 26-31 May 2014
  • Prof Yun-Feng Xiao, Peking University, China 21-24 May 2014
  • Mr Himanshu Agarwal, Research Intern, IIT Kharagpur, India 01 May-10 July 2014
  • Dr Patrice Féron, ENSSAT, Lannion, France 24-29 March 2014
  • Dr Yannick Dumeige, ENSSAT, Lannion, France 24-29 March 2014
  • Prof Reuven Gordon, University of Victoria, Canada 2-7 March 2014
  • Ms Lisa Nakahara, Research Intern, University of Tsukuba, Japan February-March 2014
  • Prof Peter Barker, UCL, London, UK, 11-14 February 2014
  • Dr Tracy Melvin, University of Southampton, UK, 20-24 January 2014
  • Prof Takasumi Tanabe, Keio University, Japan, 9&10 January 2014
  • Prof. Jacques Robert, Université Paris-Sud, France, 18-22 November 2013
  • Dr. Devendra Kumar Mishra, Vallabhram Saligram Mehta College of Science, India, 11-15 November 2013
  • Prof. John Donegan, Trinity College Dublin Ireland, 4-8 November 2013
  • Dr. Patience Mthunzi, CSIR, South Africa, 15-19 October 2013
  • Mr. Chang-Ling Zou, USTC, China, March 2013
  • Prof. Johannes Denschlag, Universitaet Ulm, Germany  February 2013
  • Prof. Mikio Nakahara, Kinki University, Osaka, Japan, February 2013
  • Dr. Michael Morrissey, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, February 2013
  • Mr. Marios Sergides, UCL, London, United Kingdom, January 2013
  • Prof. Kohzo Hakuta, University of Electrocommunications, Tokyo, Japan, January 2013