Current Group Members

The experimental heavy ion collisions group at Kent State consists of Spiros Margetis, myself, and the following cast of characters:

• Staff:

  Jonathan Bouchet
  Subhash Singha
  

• PhD Research Advisees:

  Amilkar Quintero (advised by S. Margetis)
  Prashanth Shanmuganathan
  Michael Lomnitz (advised by S. Margetis)
  Ayman Hamad (coadvised with S. Margetis)
  Yang Wu
  

Former Group Members

• Former Postdocs/Research Staff:

  Dhammika Weerasundara (0.5 FTE group member, subsequently at UW, Seattle)
  Marvin Justice (subsequently Staff Physicist at Brookhaven National Lab.)
  Sergey Panitkin (now Associate Physicist at Brookhaven National Lab.)
  Lee Barnby (now at University Of Birmingham, England)
  Christina Markert (now Associate Prof. at University Of Texas, Austin)
  Vladimir Rykov
  Mikhail Kopytine (now employed in industry in Moscow)
  Jin-Hui Chen (now Associate Physicist at SINAP, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai)
  Lokesh Kumar (see this link also; now Asst. Prof. at Panjab University, India)
  
  

• Graduated Students:

  The best available contact information for the graduates below is posted on the page for CNR Alumni.

  John Cogar (MS, 1990)
  Jinghua Jennifer Jiang (PhD, 1993)
  Yiping Shao (PhD, 1994) [coadvised with G. Fai]
  Alan Scott (PhD, 1995)
  Shan Wang (PhD, 1998)
  Heng Liu (PhD, 1998)
  Wensheng Deng (PhD, 2002) [advised by S. Margetis]
  Richard Witt (PhD, 2002)
  Aihong Tang (PhD, 2002)
  Ben E. Norman (PhD, 2003) [advised by S. Margetis]
  Dimitrios Nikas (PhD, 2003) [advised by S. Margetis]
  Camelia Mironov (PhD, 2005) [advised by S. Margetis]
  Gang Wang (PhD, 2006)
  John Amonett (PhD, 2008] [coadvised with S. Margetis]
  Chandra Nepali (PhD, 2008) [coadvised with G. Fai]
  Jaiby Joseph (PhD, 2011) [advised by S. Margetis]
  Yadav Pandit (PhD, 2012)
  Jeremy Alford (PhD, 2015) [coadvised with M. Strickland]