people
Grau Lab current group members and alumni.
Principal Investigator
Graduate Students
Chamod Hewa
Ph.D. Student · Joined Summer 2026
Research: Ba⁺ Ion Trap
Ph.D. Student · Joined Summer 2026
Research: Ba⁺ Ion Trap
John Hill
Ph.D. Student · Joined Summer 2025 · In collaboration with Prof. Sylvain Marsillac (ECE)
Research: Spin-polarized photocathodes
Ph.D. Student · Joined Summer 2025 · In collaboration with Prof. Sylvain Marsillac (ECE)
Research: Spin-polarized photocathodes
Urban Kobal
Ph.D. Student · Joined Summer 2023
Research: Ba⁺ Ion Trap
Ph.D. Student · Joined Summer 2023
Research: Ba⁺ Ion Trap
Greg Blume
Ph.D. Student · Joined Fall 2022 · In collaboration with Prof. Sylvain Marsillac (ECE)
Research: Spin-polarized photocathodes
Ph.D. Student · Joined Fall 2022 · In collaboration with Prof. Sylvain Marsillac (ECE)
Research: Spin-polarized photocathodes
Will Jeffries
Ph.D. Student · Joined Summer 2022
Research: Ba⁺ Ion Trap
Ph.D. Student · Joined Summer 2022
Research: Ba⁺ Ion Trap
- VSGC Graduate STEM Research Fellowship
Undergraduate Students
Ambrose Orth
Undergraduate Researcher · Joined Spring 2025
Research: Thermionic emission
Undergraduate Researcher · Joined Spring 2025
Research: Thermionic emission
- Undergraduate Research and Creativity Fellowship
Austen Wendt
Undergraduate Researcher · Joined Fall 2024
Research: Fitting NV⁻ ODMR spectra
Undergraduate Researcher · Joined Fall 2024
Research: Fitting NV⁻ ODMR spectra
Cody Hardy
Undergraduate Researcher · Joined Summer 2026
Research: NV⁻ centers
Undergraduate Researcher · Joined Summer 2026
Research: NV⁻ centers
Rowan Marsillac
Undergraduate Researcher · Joined Summer 2026
Research: NV⁻ centers
Undergraduate Researcher · Joined Summer 2026
Research: NV⁻ centers
Alumni
| Joshua Wager | Undergraduate Researcher | Fall 2022 – Spring 2026 |
| Isaiah McCoy | Senior Thesis | Spring 2026 |
| Kaitlyn Levine | Undergraduate Researcher | Fall 2023 – Fall 2025 |
| James Wile | Undergraduate Researcher | Summer 2025 |
| Panagiotis Taoulas | Undergraduate Researcher | Spring – Summer 2025 |
| Lawrence Umali | Undergraduate Researcher | Fall 2023 – Fall 2024 |
| Annika Cote | Senior Thesis | Summer 2024 |
| Jessica Blevins | Undergraduate Researcher | Summer 2024 |
| Michael Hildebrand | Undergraduate Researcher | Summer 2024 |
| Ryan O’Neill | Senior Thesis | Summer 2023 – Spring 2024 |
| Melanie Johnson | Undergraduate Researcher | Spring 2023 – Spring 2024 |
| Michaela Bochman | Ph.D. Student | 2023 |
| Jacob Chaney | Undergraduate Researcher | Summer 2023 |
| Evan Johnson | Senior Thesis | Summer 2022 – Spring 2023 |
| Thomas Powell | Senior Thesis | Fall 2022 – Spring 2023 |
| David Routhier | Senior Thesis | Fall 2022 – Spring 2023 |
| DaRon Wilkins | Senior Thesis | Fall 2022 – Spring 2023 |
| Wyatt Elliot | Undergraduate Researcher | Summer 2022 |
| Alastair Deans | Undergraduate Researcher | Summer 2022 |
| Tyler Rose | Undergraduate Researcher | Spring – Summer 2022 |
| Anthony Shea | Senior Thesis | Spring 2022 |