Group Members

 

Dr. Sue Carter

Michael Griffo
Amanda Holt
Veronica Sholin
Daniel Simon

Group Alumni



Michael Griffo (mgriffo@physics.ucsc.edu) received his BS in physics from UC Berkeley in 2003 and is currently working towards a PhD in physics at UC Santa Cruz. His area of interest is in organic memory devices. He is currently characterizing the modes of conduction in bistable organic nanoparticle devices.
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Amanda Holt (aholt@physics.ucsc.edu) received a double undergraduate degree in physics and music from Bard College, New York, in May 2001. She is currently in the physics PhD graduate program at UCSC. She is interested in interdisciplinary aspects of physics such as biophysics and physical chemistry and their applications. She is currently engaged in research on the applications of conjugated polymers to electrochromic devices and biosensor technology.

 

Veronica Sholin (veromb@physics.ucsc.edu) began her undergraduate studies at the Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela, and continued at the University of New Mexico, where she received a BS in Physics in
2002. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Physics at UC Santa Cruz. The focus of her research is the construction of a more efficient and inexpensive solar
cell, with the goal of enabling mass production of solar cells and encouraging the use of renewable energy. She is currently working on an organic luminescent solar collector to be used in combination with inorganic solar cells.

 

Daniel Simon (nomis@physics.ucsc.edu) received his BS in physics from the University of Georgia at Athens in 2000. While at Georgia, he participated in both high-energy experiment, and condensed matter theory projects. After completing his BS degree, he spent a year working as a date farmer on a kibbutz in northern Israel. In the fall of 2001, Daniel began studies at UCSC on track for a PhD. His current work is in biophysics studying the behavior of cultured and polymer-based neural networks by means of microelectrode arrays.
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