Dr. Kinga Lasek
Purdue University

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Senior Research Scientist

PhD, Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, 2018

Email: klasek@purdue.edu
Office: Birck 1222

Kinga joined Prof. Manfra's group in July of 2023 following a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at the University of South Florida advancing the growth and modification of transition metal chalcogenides and magnetic 2D heterostructures. In 2018 she received her PhD in Physics from Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, where she studied perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in magnetic tunnel junctions heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy.

Kinga is a dedicated physicist with a strong focus on thin films growth, characterization, and materials science. In Prof. Manfra’s research group she will be developing the growth of extremely high-quality AlGaAs-GaAs semiconductor heterostructures to probe quantum phenomena.

Dr. Rajendra Kumar
Purdue University

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Postdoctoral Research Associate

Ph.D., Material Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India, 2022

Email: kumar622@purdue.edu
Office: Birck 1088

Rajendra joined Professor Manfra's group in October of 2022 after obtaining his Ph.D. from JNCASR in 2022, where his research focused on the development of MBE growth of III-nitride nanostructures to understand the underlying mechanisms of growth and impacts of doping and impurities. With the Manfra group his research focuses on developing MBE growth for superlattices of III-nitride semiconductors, especially GaN/(Al,Sc)N superlattices, for their applications in IR devices.

Dr. Colin Avogadri
Purdue University

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Postdoctoral Research Associate

PhD, Physics, University of Montpellier, France, 2023
MSc, Condensed Matter Physics, Sorbonne-Universités, Paris, France, 2019
BSc, Fundamental Physics, Université Paris-Sud, Paris, France, 2017

Email: cavogadr@purdue.edu
Office: PHYS B87

Colin joined Professor Manfra's group in July of 2023 after obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Montpellier where his research focused on the quantum spin Hall effect in III-V materials. With the Manfra group his focus is on the fabrication of mesoscopic devices and ultra-low temperature measurements investigating the properties of anyons in the fractional quantum Hall regime.