I received my PhD from New Mexico State University and I have worked at different universities and national laboratories before joining King in 2017. I was away from 2018 to 2022, and I have been back at King since Spring of 2022. My research interests are in condensed matter physics. I study the structural and magnetic properties of correlated-electron systems. I enjoy studying the effects of pressure on correlated-electron systems and use it as a tuning parameter to study the emergent phenomena.
I have always wanted to be at a place like King, which offers the opportunity to interact closely with students in helping them attain their academic goals. I love the value King places on faith that helps to see life in the right perspective.
A couple of words of wisdom that have challenged and encouraged me:
“All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance … Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? Where is the Life we have lost in living?” – T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems.
“The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love” – Henry Scougal, The Life of God in the Soul of Man.
- Light as a Dipole: A Tortoise and Hare Model. In: Sriraman, B. (eds) Handbook of Visual, Experimental and Computational Mathematics. Springer, Cham. (October, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93954-0_38-1.
- U2Ni2Sn and the origin of magnetic anisotropy in uranium compounds Phys. Rev. B 99 (6), 064415 (2019) (work involves undergraduate students under my supervision)
- Distinct pressure evolution of coupled nematic and magnetic order in FeSe Phys. Rev. B 100 (6), 064515 (2019)
- Strong cooperative coupling of pressure-induced magnetic order and nematicity in FeSe Nature. Commun. 7:12728 (2016)