Principal Investigator

Denys I. Bondar, PhD

d b o n d a r (at) t u l a n e.e d u

Office: 4031 Percival Stern Hall

Mailing Address:
Department of Physics & Engineering Physics
2001 Percival Stern Hall
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118

Prof. Bondar joined the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Tulane University in 2018. Previously, he had been an Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton University since 2014. He was promoted from a postdoctoral appointment at the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University. He earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2011 and MSc with Honors from Uzhgorod National University, Ukraine in 2006.

He is a co-organizer of the upcoming conference “Koopman Methods in Classical and Classical-Quantum Mechanics” on April 18-23, 2021; Bad Honnef, Germany.

Awards

• Young Faculty Award DARPA (2019)
• Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2017)
• Air Force Young Investigator Research Program (2016)
• Los Alamos Director’s Fellowship (declined) (2013)
• President’s Graduate Scholarship (University of Waterloo) (2010)
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2010)

Postdocs

Gerard McCaul, PhD

Gerard joined the group in January 2019, working on both open systems and quantum control. He completed his PhD in 2018 at King’s College London, on the topic of path integral approaches to open quantum systems. Before that he lived in China for a bit in the hope it would make him a more interesting person. It didn’t. He enjoys long walks on the beach and nothing else.

Ravikiran Saripalli, PhD

Graduate students

Jacob Leamer

Wenlei Zhang

Dustin Lindberg

Alexander King

Zakhar Popovych

Undergraduate students

Jacob Masur

Former Group Members

Alex Schimmoller