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Benedict Drevniok A Ph.D. student who joined us from Roland Bennewitz's group at McGill. He has developed a low temperature Pan-type scanning tunneling microscope and he is starting STM experiments on molecular systems. He has used NC-AFM/STM to study the adsorption of molecules on surfaces.
Daniel Pohl A Ph.D. student working on SPM studies of molecules on surfaces.
Former Graduate Students
Each dot represents the current coordinates of a former graduate student.
Ryan Hairsine developed methods for coupling light in/out of a tunnel junction. He is currently working as an engineer in Perth, Western Australia.
Jay Weymouth built his own beetle and performed our first experiments that involved molecules. Jay is now a PDF with Franz Giessibl in Regensburg. His old home page is here.
Andrew Mark performed both inverse photoemission (M.Sc.) and STM
(Ph.D.). His thesis involved a study of domain boundaries on Ge/Si(111). Andrew was the third student in our group to win the Hobson Prize and he is presently a PDF with Rasmita Raval in Liverpool.
Will Paul is currently at McGill studying towards his Ph.D. with Peter Grutter.
Jason Visser is currently at UCLA.
Josh-Lipton Duffin performed studies of one-dimensional systems with inverse photoemission. He is now married to Jen, MacLeod and worked for a few years in Trieste. Josh was our second Hobson Prize winner.
Jen MacLeod took our first atomic-resolution STM images in ultra high vacuum and she was our first Hobson Prize winner. Her STM images now appear in textbooks where they are influencing generations of young scientists. After leaving Queen's, she worked at INRS and also in Trieste.
After leaving the group, Steve Ball took his Ph.D. with LIMB, the Laboratory of Integrative Motor Behaviour, working with Stephen Scott.
Jill Miwa holds the group record for defending her M.Sc. thesis in less than one hour. She took her Ph.D. with Federico Rosei at INRS in Quebec. She is now in Australia working with Michelle Simmon's group at UNSW, Sydney.
David Loken is now teaching high school students physics (and soccer) at Kingston Collegiate Vacational Institute.
Antje Moffat (ne Lucas) built the first beetle. Then, after spending a short time as an application engineer at Schlumberger Systems GmbH in Munich, providing support to all Schlumberger probe systems for failure analysis of semiconductor devices in Europe, she moved to Jena to complete her Ph.D. LINK
Gisia Beydaghyan is now teaching physics at the Universite de Moncton.
Andrew Kult moved to Atlantis Scientific, Ottawa, Canada.
After leaving the group, Ian Hill joined Antoine Kahn's research group in the Electrical Engineering Department at Princeton University as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant. He moved on to Sarnoff Coorporation in Princeton and then back to Canada to the Physics Department at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia because he missed the Atlantic storms. He now has his own research group at Dal.
Paul Guse is now teaching Physics nearby at Albert College in Belleville, Ontario.
Katie (C.E.J.) Mitchell was my first Ph.D. student. After leaving Queen's, she spent time with Wendy Flavell at UMIST in Manchester and then at the Department of Materials Science at the University of Oxford. She is now a professor of Physics at the University of Saskatchewan.
Dale Swanston, from Saskatchewan, was my first graduate student. He performed angle-resolved photoemission experiments on InAs with synchrotron radiation.