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Principal Investigator
Valla Fatemi
Assistant Professor
Aref and Manon Lahham Faculty Fellow
School of Applied and Engineering Physics
Office: 211 Clark Hall
Lab: Clark Hall G Corridor (current), D Corridor (early 2023)
Email: vf82 [at] cornell.edu
Schedule: see contact page
Phone: (607) 255-1927
About my work
I am a condensed matter and quantum devices physicist working on topological, strongly correlated, and controlled quantum systems. I conducted research on superconductor-semiconductor nanowires in the Marcus Lab and, during my undergraduate years at Columbia University, on single-molecule electronic transport in the Venkataraman and Neaton groups. I completed my Ph.D. in the Jarillo-Herrero Group at MIT, working largely on transport in ultrathin topological insulators and contributing to groundbreaking work on strongly-correlated electronic states by designed moiré superlattices. Most recently, I was a post-doc in the Devoret Group (QuLab) at Yale University, where I applied circuit quantum electrodynamics probes to study mesoscopic systems and developed new qubits. Currently, I am an Assistant Professor at Cornell University’s School of Applied and Engineering Physics. See the manuscripts and scientific interests pages to learn more.
Courses I teach
Fall 2022: AEP 1200 / ENGRI 1200: Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Spring 2023: AEP 3550: Intermediate Electromagnetism
About me
I am an Atlanta, Georgia, native who has developed an affinity for northeastern climates (see my professional journey above). I enjoy playing backgammon and squash, and I collect old books, particularly on science, scientists, and history. My wife and I (and our two cats) have enjoyed our first year in Ithaca and like to be outside as much as possible.
Post-doctoral associates and fellows
We are hiring! Please see the opportunities page.
Graduate student researchers
Luojia Zhang (Physics)
Haoran Lu (Applied Physics)
Haoran Lu is currently a second year Applied and Engineering Physics (AEP) graduate student working with Professor Fatemi. His current research interests focus on Andreev spin qubits (ASQ) and superconducting circuits, and he is working on ASQ circuit design/simulation as well as microwave measurement system building. Haoran obtained his bachelor degree of science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2020 and has experience in optical microscopy, image processing, deep learning, and FPGA.
Saswata Roy (Physics)
Undergraduate student researchers
Zoey Hu
Ryan Byrne
Robert HaoJia Wang
Nikolai Nekrutenko
