Current Members
Principle Investigator
Dr. Jagadeesh S. Moodera | moodera ‘at’ mit ‘dot’ edu
Dr. Jagadeesh S. Moodera received his Ph.D. in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology (Madras). He joined MIT in 1981 as a research staff at the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory (FBML), where he currently leads the “Thin Film Magnetism, Superconductivity and Nanospintronics” group. He has worked in several areas of fundamental and applied physics that includes nanospintronics, spin polarized transport and tunneling, thin film magnetism, superconductivity and topological insulators. He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000 and awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize from the American Physical Society in 2009.
Graduate Students
Shouzhuo ‘Gary’ Yang | ysz ‘at’ mit ‘dot’ edu
Gary grew up in Beijing, China. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 2023 and joined MIT in 2024. He has experience in plasma physics, neutrino physics, and condensed matter. He is working on superconducing diodes and novel designs of Josephson Junctions.
Postdoctoral Scholars
Josep Ingla Aynes | jingla ‘at’ mit ‘dot’ edu
Dr. Ingla Aynes reveived his Ph.D from the University of Groningen in 2018. He has experience in spin and charge transport in graphene and van der Waals heterostructures involving transition metal dichalcogenides and other layered materials. He has also worked on quantum transport in bilayer graphene-based quantum point contacts. He has been awarded a Juan de la Cierva grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science in 2019 and a Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2021. He joined MIT in September 2023. More information can be found here.
Peng Chen | chenpeng ‘at’ mit ‘dot’ edu
Dr. Peng Chen received his Ph.D. from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2024. During his Ph.D., he mainly focused on novel magneto-electronic transport phenomena of topological insulators, magnetic topological insulator heterostructures, and intrinsic magnetic topological insulators. Meanwhile, he obtained skills in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), physical property measurement system (PPMS), characterization of materials, and nano-device fabrication. He joined MIT in July 2024.
Visiting Scientist
Prof. Donald Heiman | dheiman ‘at’ northeastern ‘dot’ edu
Group Mascot
Prof. Tang Dou (糖豆）
Tang Dou is an expert in zoomiology and barketing.
Former Group Members