Alumni

Master Alumni

Julian Rojas
Name Julian Rojas Castillo
Graduated 2023-2
Project Electronic and topological properties of TaTe4 and Cu-doped TaTe4
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Current whereabouts Ph.D. student, Radboud University, Netherlands

Juan Pablo Cruz
Name Juan Pablo N. Cruz Castiblanco
Graduated 2023-2
Project Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy of transition metal tetrachalcogenides
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Current whereabouts Ph.D. student, Cornell University, USA

Cristian Borja
Name Cristian Mauricio Borja Peña
Graduated 2022-2
Thesis Superconductivity and Charge Density Wave in the Extended Fermi-Hubbard Model with Disorder (co-advisor: Juan José Mendoza, U. Pittsburgh)
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Current whereabouts Ph.D. student, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Karen Vergara
Name Karen Alejandra Vega Bustos
Graduated 2022-2
Thesis Variation of electronic properties of the transition metal dichalcogenide WSe2 through chemical doping (co-advisor: José Augusto Galvis, U. Central)
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Current whereabouts University lecturer at Universidad Militar, Bogotá, Colombia

Jose Danilo Salcedo
Name José Danilo Salcedo
Graduated: 2020-2
Thesis: Charge density wave and superconductivity in Ta1-xMoxS2: evolution of structural and electronic properties
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Current whereabouts School teacher in the public system, Sahagún, Córdoba, Colombia

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Name Juan Sebastian Calderón
Graduated: 2019-1
Thesis: Theoretical and Experimental study of topological invariants in Topological Crystalline Insulators (co-advisor: Andrés Reyes, Uniandes)
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Current whereabouts Ph.D student, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria

Undergraduate Alumni

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Name Josue Carrero Herrera
Graduated 2025-1
Thesis Ferroic orders in solid solutions of Mo-based dichalcogenides
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Name Brenda Sofía Lizarazo
Graduated 2025-1
Thesis Study of charge density wave phases in transition metal tetrachalcogenides using ultrasonic resonance spectroscopy
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Name Pablo Yepes
Graduated 2025-1
Thesis Fabrication of nanodevices for the measurement of the Quantum Hall Effect in graphene
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Name Valentina Posada
Graduated 2024-2
Thesis Electrical properties of multiferroic transition metal dichalcogenide nanostructures based on W(Se,Te)2
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Current whereabouts Research Assistant, Quantum materials Group, Uniandes

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Name Juan David Santacruz
Graduated 2025-1
Thesis Piezoelectricity measurements in two-dimensional ferroelectric materials using resonance ultrasound spectroscopy and resonant piezoelectric spectroscopy
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Current whereabouts Master in physics student, Uniandes, Colombia

Harold Rojas
Name Gabriel Santiago Villabón Linares
Graduated: 2024-2
Thesis Optimization of thermoelectric properties in transition metal dichalcogenides through chemical doping
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Current whereabouts Master student, INRS, Canadá

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Name Cristian Rey Bausita
Graduated 2024-2
Thesis Ferroic orders in solid solutions of Mo-based dichalcogenides
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Luciano Bastidas
Name Luciano Bastidas Peralta
Graduated 2023-1
Thesis Study of piezoelectric materials using resonant ultrasound spectroscopy
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Current whereabouts Ph.D. student, University of Washington, USA

Duvan
Name Duvan Mateo Martinez Fandiño
Graduated 2023-1
Thesis Multifunctional properties of multiferroic transition metal dichalcogenides
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Current whereabouts Student of Government and public affairs, Uniandes

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Name Gabriela Rincón
Graduated 2022-2
Thesis Synthesis methods of underdoped bismuthate superconductors
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Current whereabouts Highschool teacher

Julian Rojas
Name Julian Rojas Castillo
Graduated 2021-2
Thesis Electronic properties of Weyl-semimetal candidate TaTe4
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Current whereabouts Ph.D. student, Radboud University, Netherlands

Juan Felipe Rodriguez
Name Juan Felipe Rodríguez Herrera
Graduated 2021-2
Thesis Measurements of the mechanical resonance spectrum of quantum materials through RUS. Copy here
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Current whereabouts R&D Engineer at AGP Group, Peru.

Felipe Giraldo
Name: Felipe Giraldo Grueso
Graduated: 2021-1
Thesis: Numerical techniques applied to resonant ultrasound spectroscopy analysis. Copy here
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Current whereabouts Ph.D. student, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Diana Jimenez
Name: Diana Marcela Jiménez
Graduated: 2020-1
Thesis: Search for Superconductivity in quasi-1D transition metal chalcogenides through chemical doping. Copy here
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Current whereabouts Ph.D. student, University of Concordia, Canada.

Santiago Valencia
Name: Santiago Valencia
Graduated: 2020-1
Thesis: Electronic properties of transition metal dichalcogenides and their modification through chemical doping. Copy here
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Current whereabouts Ph.D. student, University of Concordia, Canada.

Yvan Hernandez
Name: Yvan Hernandez Charpak
Graduated: 2020-1
Thesis: Implementation of a Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy experimental setup in Universidad de Los Andes. Copy here
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Current whereabouts Postdoctoral researcher, Uniandes, Colombia

Jose Danilo Salcedo
Name: Luis Eduardo Rivera
Graduated: 2018-2
Thesis: AC susceptibility to study superconducting and magnetic materials
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Current whereabouts Ph.D. student, UNAM, Mexico

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Name: Miguel Roncancio
Graduated: 2019-1
Thesis: Single crystal synthesis of Ba1-xKxBiO3 by electrochemical methods
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Former Research Assistants

Gabriel Cardenas
Name Gabriel Ivan Cárdenas Chirivi
Dates 2021-1 to 2023-1
Project Multiferroic and piezoelectric properties of doped transition metal chalcogenides
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Current whereabouts Ph.D. student, Harvard University, USA
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