| Duchossois Leadership Professor of Physics | |
| Address: | Physics Department |
| Pritzker Science Center, room 166D/172 | |
| 3101 South Dearborn, St. | |
| Chicago, IL 60616 | |
| Voice: | 312.567.3498 |
| FAX: | 312.567.3494 |
| e-mail: | segre@iit.edu |
Are you interested in studying physics or becoming a physicist? As an advisor to undergraduate and graduate physics students, I have heard and answered many questions over the years. You can ask your questions directly and read my posts on College Confidential as "xraymancs".
Topics might include:
Since 2009, I have been interested in the history of physics at Illinois Institute of Technology including its predecessors, Armour Institute of Technology and Lewis Institute. Through the work of my Introduction to the Profession class each year, we have been able to flesh out a timeline of physics faculty and we are building biographies of as many as possible. The results can be found in the Illinois Tech Physics Faculty Timeline.
None of the research I have worked would have been possible without the graduate students who have studied with me at Illinois Tech.
| Current Ph.D. Students | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benard Lawer | Physics Department | |||
| Ishani Senevirathna | Physics Department | |||
| Karen Castañeda | Physics Department | |||
| Sahar Shadman | Chemistry Department | |||
| Hao Lin | Chemistry Department | |||
| Otavio Marques | Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Department | |||
| Ning Su | Physics Department | |||
| Former Ph.D. Students | ||||
| 1987 | -- | Kaijun Zhang | GMCs, Shanghai, China | |
| 1991 | -- | Justin Akujieze | Chicago State University | |
| 1991 | -- | David Marx | Illinois State University | |
| 1992 | -- | Paolo Radaelli | Oxford University | |
| 1994 | -- | Zuning Wang | Alcatel-Lucent, Naperville, IL | |
| 1995 | -- | Roberta Zasadzinski | Schuler Scholar Program, Lake Forest, IL | |
| 1996 | -- | Beihai Ma | Argonne National Laboratory | |
| 1999 | -- | Ahmet Cansiz | Istanbul Technical University | |
| 2003 | -- | Nadia Leyarovska | ||
| 2007 | -- | Stanislav Stoupin | Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source | |
| 2009 | -- | Shanshan Liu | Knowles Corp., Itasca, IL | |
| 2009 | -- | Thomas Brennan | ||
| 2010 | -- | Qingying Jia | Plug Power, Concord, MA | |
| 2012 | -- | Hasitha Ganegoda | CTS Corp., Lisle. IL | |
| 2013 | -- | Michael Wojcik | Argonne National Laboratory | |
| 2015 | -- | Christopher Pelliccione | Pratt & Whitney, Hartford, CT | |
| 2018 | -- | Medani Sangroula | Brookhaven National Laboratory | |
| 2018 | -- | Shankar Aryal | The Chemours Company, Wilmington, DE | |
| 2019 | -- | Hilal Saglam | Princeton University | |
| 2019 | -- | Yujia Ding | Illinois Institute of Technology | |
| 2020 | -- | Elahe Moazzen | Northwestern University | |
| 2021 | -- | Kamil Kucuk | DeNovX LLC, Chicago, IL | |
| Former M.S. Students | ||||
| 1989 | -- | Mark Kleefisch | Gas Technology Institute, Des Plaines, IL | |
| 1995 | -- | Herman Cease | Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL | |
| 1997 | -- | Trudy Bolin | X-ray Consultant, Chicago, IL | |
| 2010 | -- | Leonardo de Melo | Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM | |
| 2017 | -- | Nick Goldring | RadiaSoft LLC, Denver, CO | |
| 2017 | -- | Nathaniel Beaver | Northeastern University Ph.D. program | |
I am a "midwesterner", having spent my early years in Lincoln, Nebraska; Madison, Wisconsin; and Urbana, Illinois. I received my B.S. in physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976. I then entered my bi-coastal period, first obtaining a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, San Diego in 1981 Professors Bernd Matthias and M. Brian Maple and then spending two years as a post-doc with Prof. Mark Croft at Rutgers University in New Jersey. I have been on the IIT faculty since 1983 with a one-year sabbatical in Trieste, Italy at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. I have over 170 refereed publications. A full Curriculum Vitae is also available.
Education:
B.S. in Physics, 1976, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
B.S. in Chemistry, 1976, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
M.S. in Physics, 1977, University of California, San Diego
Ph.D. in Physics, 1981, University of California, San Diego
Professional Societies:
American Physical Society
American Chemical Society
Materials Research Society
The Electrochemical Society
American Vacuum Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
(Fellow 2013)
Sigma Xi (President of IIT Chapter
2005-2016; North Central Region Director 2016-2022)
International Centre for Diffraction Data
(Fellow 2006; Director-at-Large 2020-2024)
Research Interests:
My research centers around the structure and electronic properties of
complex materials including superconducting, magnetic, catalytic, and
energy storage materials.
Experimental techniques used in my research include; material synthesis through arc-melting, powder metallurgy, and advanced chemical methods; structural characterization of the samples performed by x-ray powder diffraction and xray absorption fine structure; and measurement of electronic properties by resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, and x-ray absorption spectroscopy. Specific topics of interest include:
I also am an active participant in the IIT Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research and Instrumentation (CSRRI), serving as Center Director and Deputy Director of the Materials Research Collaborative Access Team (MRCAT) which operates an experimental facility for materials research at the Advanced Photon Source (APS). I have been involved in the development of crystal optic devices for delivery and detection of x-rays at synchrotron beamlines.
Computing:
Finally, I am a Debian Developer.
I package scientific data analysis software for the Debian GNU/Linux
Project.
I spend quite a bit of time (too much!) configuring Linux software that I use regularly. My notes on some of this work can hopefully be of use to others:
Compiling Wien2k on a Debian system
Configuring Alpine for Gmail IMAP
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