Team

Principal Investigator

Dr. Guang Bian

Education:

Tsinghua University (Beijing, 2000-2007), BS. MS. Physics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007-2012), Ph.D. Physics

Employment:

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Physics, Princeton University (2013-2016)

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Missouri at Columbia (2016-2022)

Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Missouri at Columbia (2022-present)

Graduate Students

Avinash Sah (2023- )

Manoj Gadtoula (2023- )

Rahgeer Yeassin (2024- )

Prativa Sharma (2024- )

Ronghao (Rommy) Luo (2025- )

Zane Hubble (2026- )

Undergraduate Students

Nathaniel Thomas

Alumni

Clayton Conner  (MU PhD 2026, postdoc at University of California, Davis)

Cheng Zhang (Postdoc 2024-2026, now Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF))

Jacob Cook  (MU PhD 2025, postdoc at Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Amarnath Chakraborty (MU PhD 2025, postdoc at National Seoul university, Korea)

Qiangsheng (Johnson) Lu (MU PhD 2022, assistant professor at Research Center of Greater Bay Area, China)

John Clark (MU undergraduate, PhD program at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville)

Hunter Lucker (MU undergraduate, Summer Research Exposure Program 2024)

Xiaoqian Zhang (Joint PhD student with Nanjing University 2021, associate professor at Southeastern University, China)

Theo Volz (Rockbridge High School, Columbia, MO, U.S. Presidential Scholar 2025, undergraduate at Princeton University)

Kyle Chen (Rockbridge High School, Columbia, MO, U.S. Presidential Scholar 2022, undergraduate at Caltech)

Prof. Tay-Rong Chang (Visiting professor, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

Hriday Dhar Joni (MU graduate student (2023-2024), PhD program at Case Western Reserve University)

Riley Satterfield  (MU undergraduate, PhD program at University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Joseph Berglund  (MU undergraduate, PhD program at Rice University)

James McMillen (MU undergraduate, PhD program at Northeastern University)

Matthew Snyder (MU undergraduate, PhD program at University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Madison Schwinn (MU undergraduate, REU, PhD program at Northwestern University)

Adam D. Smith (MU undergraduate, PhD program at University of Alabama at Birmingham)

Chi Chen (MU undergraduate, PhD program at Virginia Tech University)

Xiangyu Lin (MU undergraduate, PhD program at Georgetown University)

Buyuan Luo (MU undergraduate, graduate program at University of Copenhagen)

Duy Tung Nguyen (MU undergraduate, graduate program at University of Missouri, Columbia)

Carter Woods (MU undergraduate, Health program at University of Missouri, Columbia)

Angus Huang (Visiting PhD student, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Chris (Zichun) Xiao (High-school researcher, Ravenscroft School, Raleigh, NC)