IDEALS Alumni Group
Many former IDEALS Fellows & Postdocs comprise our IDEALS Alumni Group. They maintain links with current students & postdocs to share their graduate school experiences and expertise navigating the professional landscape.
Jared Day is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SolarMelts, a startup company based in Brooklyn, NY. SolarMelts develops solar-activated products to combat harsh winter weather and reduce the usage of harmful chloride salts on roadways, bridges, & airports.
“…we hope to develop products that are innovative, environmentally friendly, and sustainable that can still meet the urgent challenges of managing harsh winter conditions for our roads and farms.”
Vasilios Deligiannakis is a Technical Sales Manager at Riber, Inc. in Edison, NJ. Riber is the world’s leading supplier of Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) products and related services for the compound semiconductor research and industrial field. In his work, Vasilios makes use of his extensive research experience using MBE to deposit ultra thin layers of semiconductor materials for advanced device applications.
Gabriel Lopez-Morales is an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with Profs. Johannes Flick and Carlos Meriles. His professional goals are in academia.
“…I want to go back to Puerto Rico… I would like to help other students in understanding the career paths in STEM, and the sort of preparation and set of skills that each requires. Giving some sort of advice or ‘guidance’ along these lines to rising students will surely help on building the experience in guiding graduate students along their journey.”
Jacob Henshaw is Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, NM. He investigates quantum materials using defect centers in wide bandgap semiconductors.
“I am using a lot of the skills and techniques I developed working under Prof. Carlos Meriles. We are using the nitrogen vacancy center in diamond to probe nuclear in 2-D materials and are working on probing electronic spins and noise in other materials.”