Principal Investigator

Gabriele Grosso

Assistant Professor of Physics, Graduate Center – CUNY

Group Leader at Photonics Initiative at ASRC

Gabriele Grosso received his BS and MS in Physics from the University of Padova in 2007 and 2010, respectively. During his Master, he spent a year in the Butov’s group at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) with a scholarship issued by the UC Abroad Exchange Program. In 2014, he completed his Ph.D. in physics for his work “Hydrodynamics and nonlinear phenomena in polariton fluids” under the supervision of Prof. Benoit Deveaud at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He then joined the Quantum Photonics Group of Prof. Dirk Englund at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a postdoc. Gabriele was a fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2014 to 2017 and a postdoc associate from 2017 to 2018. As November 2018 Gabriele joined the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center.

Education:PhD (Physics), EPFL (2014)
MS (Physics), University of Padova
BS (Physics),University of Padova

 

Postdoc

John Woods

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Graduate Center – CUNY

Education:

PhD (Engineering & Applied Sciences), Yale University (2020)
MS (Science in Engineering & Applied Sciences), Yale University (2016)
BS (Physics),University of Virginia (2014)

 

Graduate Students

Ashok Adhikari

Graduate Student of Physics, Graduate Center – CUNY

Education:
MS (Physics), Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal (2010)

 

 

Saifa Amin

Graduate Student of Physics, Graduate Center – CUNY

Education:
BS (Physics), National University of Sciences and Technology – Pakistan (2020)
MS (Physics), Sabanci University – Turkey (2022)

 

Shaina Raklyar

Graduate Student of Physics, Graduate Center – CUNY

Co-advised with Prof. German Kolmakov

Education:

BS (Biomedical Informatics), CUNY City College of Technology (2019)

 

 

Rabi Thanikasalam

Graduate Student of Physics, Graduate Center – CUNY

Education:
MS (Physics), University of Madras – India (2018)
BS (Physics), Madurai Kamaraj University – India (2016)

 

Dheeraj Koneru

Graduate Student of Physics, Graduate Center – CUNY

Education:
MS (Quantum Engineering), Stevens Institute of Technology – US (2025)
BS (Electronics and Communication Engineering), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore – India (2021)

 

Undergraduate Students

 

Aidan Jimenez

Undergraduate Student of Physics and MATH – CCNY

Education:
BS (Math & Physics), CCNY – US (expected 2027)

• Saroj Chand – PhD (2024), currently Postdoc at UC Berkley 
• Enrique Mejia – PhD (2025)
• Khandker Habib – Undergraduate student (CCNY) 2020
• Anas Ashraf – Undergraduate student (CCNY) 2021
• Aprajita Srivastava – Undergraduate summer student (CCNY) 2022
• Erik Ramjattan – Undergraduate student (CCNY) 2022