Overview

The Vishik Lab in UC Davis focused on the study of emergent electronic phenomena in quantum materials, including unconventional and high temperature superconductors, correlated electron systems, topological materials, and 2D materials.  We use both angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and time resolved techniques in our work.   These advanced materials hold promise for revealing new emergent phenomena, elucidating interactions in many body systems, and enabling tomorrow’s electronics and energy resources.

Interested in being part of it?  My contact info is here

A note to prospective PhD students: admissions is done by the entire department, not by individual professors.  If interested, you should apply to the UCD Physics and Astronomy department in the fall: application information

Additionally, some of my general advice about preparing your PhD applications can be found here

Prof. Inna Vishik

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Assistant Professor of Physics

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Current Students

Journey Byland (PhD student).  BS Physics, University of California, Davis.

Minkun Chen (PhD student). BS Applied Physics, Tianjin University.

Aaron Elersich (PhD Student). BA Physics, UC Berkeley 2020

Kevin Fillhouer (PhD Student).  BS Physics, San Francisco State University, 2020; MS Physics, UC Davis, 2021

Robert (Bobby) Prater (PhD student). BS Physics, University of Nevada (Reno)

 

 

Former members

  • Matthew Staab (PhD student graduated 2025, Postdoc–>Solutions Architect at AirMettle Inc)
  • Sudheer Sreedhar (PhD student, graduated 2024)
  • Zhenghong Wu (Undergraduate, UC Davis–>PhD student at CMU)
  • Adam Gross (PhD student, graduated 2023–>Postdoc at Sandia)
  • Rose Albu Mustaf (Undergraduate REU student–>PhD student at Rice University)
  • Eliana Mann (Undergraduate, UC Davis–>PhD student at Harvard University)
  • Daniel Sivan Shulman (Undergraduate REU student–>PhD student at Princeton University)
  • Dr. Henrique Martins (Postdoc)
  • Dr. Antonio Rossi (Postdoc–>Molecular Foundry/ALS–>Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)
  • Dr. Jayita Nayak (Postdoc–>Professor at IIT Kanpur)
  • Jinglin Liu (Undergraduate, UC Davis–>PhD student at Rutgers University)
  • Ben Gregory (Undergraduate, Pomona College, Summer 2017–>PhD student at Cornell University)
  • Onel Hirmez (Undergraduate, UC Davis, 2017)
  • Chris Mason (Undergraduate, UC Davis, 2017)