Sergio de la Barrera

Assistant Professor

Sergio explores what kinds of quantum order can exist in two dimensions, and how stacking, twisting and coupling between layers can use the third dimension to engineer new order and phenomena in 2D systems.

Erica Nielsen

PhD Candidate

Erica built our ambient scanning van der Waals microscope. She measures twist-dependent vertical transport between 2D layers and develops tunneling spectroscopy for 2D and moiré structures.

Eames Donovan

PhD Candidate

Eames studies how screening shapes correlated states in graphene multilayers. He uses high-permittivity dielectrics and other screening approaches, together with electronic compressibility methods he developed.

Sam Paudel

PhD Student

Sam studies twisted graphene multilayers, investigating how twist angle and symmetry create flat electronic bands with distinctive topological properties.

Tianyu Liang

PhD Student

Tianyu studies twisted semiconductor multilayers, exploring how these layered systems can support superconductivity and other correlated electronic states.

Jamie Talmor

PhD Student

Jamie is building a cryogenic scanning van der Waals microscope for tunneling spectroscopy and in situ twist control of moiré structures at millikelvin temperatures.

Andrea Barbieri

Undergraduate Student

Andrea investigates superconductivity in few-layer rhombohedral graphene, focusing on the collective electronic states that arise in these layered systems.

Elizabeth Ormsby

Undergraduate Student

Elizabeth studies pressure control of bilayer graphene’s layer spacing and band gap. She builds piston-cell devices and calibrates hydrostatic pressure using ruby fluorescence.