CNSM Research Snapshots

Learn about our faculty research and keep up with the newest information on our laboratories.

New CNSM laboratories are featured monthly! If you would like your lab to be featured, please reach out to the CNSM Associate Dean for Research.

Dr. Claudia Ojeda-Aristizabal

January 2025 Snapshot

Ojeda-Aristizabal lab group
Claudia Ojeda-Aristizabal and her lab, the Nanoelectronics Group.

Physics and Astronomy Department Associate Professor Dr. Claudia Ojeda-Aristizabal and her student researchers study how electrons travel through materials with exotic properties in her lab, the Nanoelectronics Group.

Using techniques like low-temperature electronic transport and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), CSULB students are unveiling new phenomena and using physics to describe them. Not only do research students work with a variety of in-house equipment, like a closed cycle cryostat and scanning electron microscopes, Dr. Ojeda-Aristizabal regularly brings students to UC Berkeley to work with their state-of-the-art synchrotron.

Understanding how electrons respond to different materials has the potential to make major impacts on current and future technology, such as quantum computing and low-energy-consumption microdevices. Students in Dr. Ojeda-Aristizabal's lab also travel the country, recently presenting at the University of Chicago and Cornell University, visiting labs at MIT and OSU and participating in trainings at UCLA.

Learn more about Dr. Claudia Ojeda-Aristizabal and her work.

Movindu Dissanayake
Undergraduate student Movindu Kawshan Dissanayake performing a sample of stacked 2-dimensional quantum materials.
Phillip Gibbs and probes
Graduate student Phillip Gibbs with one of the probes for electronic transport measurements.
Chenchu Yakasiri and Joshua Luna
Undergraduate students Chenchu Yakasiri and Joshua Luna manipulating and looking for small two-dimensional quantum materials on a silicon wafer under the optical microscope.
Stefan Lucero and Movindu Dissanayake
Undergraduate students Stefan Lucero and Movindu Kawshan Dissanayake looking at the outcome of the just fabricated devices.
Phillip Gibbs and the cryostat
Graduate student Phillip Gibbs checking one of the valves in the closed cycle cryostat.
Anise Mansour and Dr. Claudia Ojeda-Aristizabal
Anise Mansour and Dr. Claudia Ojeda-Aristizabal checking the data of the most recent electronic transport measurements on a heterostructure of quantum materials.

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Antonio Martinez Lab group

Dr. Antonio Martinez

December 2024 Snapshot

Dr. Martinez and his student researchers study the intersection of how mathematicians and computer scientists approach complex computational problems. One aim of this work is to identify effective cognitive strategies within each discipline, with the broader goal of interdisciplinary learning and enhanced quality of mathematics education.

Alyssa Abbey Lab group

Dr. Alyssa Abbey

November 2024 Snapshot

Research by students in Dr. Alyssa Abbey's laboratory focuses on understanding long-term changes in landscapes and what factors lead to those changes, from tectonic activity to climate change. By dating when faults start moving, how fast they move and how long they are active, Dr. Abbey and her students can examine how growing mountains change river routes and mammal migration patterns.

Johnson Lab group

Dr. Darren Johnson

October 2024 Snapshot

Research students in the Johnson Lab study how changes in ocean temperature and pH alter patterns of natural selection and measure the genetic capacity for fish populations to evolve. The lab aims to better understand how climate change may threaten our fish populations, including understanding if fish larvae may become more tolerant of some climate change conditions.

Tian Lab group

Dr. Fangyuan Tian

September 2024 Snapshot

Research students in the Tian Laboratory focus materials on a chemical level. They work to understand the surface and interface chemistry of solid materials, with a goal of designing biocompatible coatings that can do a variety of things, including methane capture and drug delivery.