# Current Lab Members **Job Announcement** Our group is currently seeking motivated postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students. For more information see [Opportunities](https://mitrano.physics.harvard.edu/opportunities) Sort & Filters close ## Filters People expand\_more - Principal Investigator (1) - Faculty Assistant (1) - Postdoctoral Scholars (3) - Graduate Students (3) - Undergraduate Students (3) - Alumni (10) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 10 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Last Name A-ZLast Name Z-A sort list grid\_view ## 10 results [### Matteo Mitrano ](/people/matteo-mitrano) Principal Investigator Matteo Mitrano is an experimental condensed matter physicist. He received his PhD in 2015 for his work at the Max-Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg (Germany) and then continued his research at the University of Illinois... ![Matteo Mitrano portrait](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mitranolab/files/060223_mitrano_matteo_048_1.jpg?itok=gyaUzwnw) [### Bonnie Carlson ](/people/bonnie-carlson) Faculty Assistant person [### Juliet Coe ](/people/juliet-coe) Undergraduate Student Class of 2025, Harvard University Juliet Coe 25’ is a Harvard undergraduate studying Physics and English. Outside of the lab, Juliet writes creative non-fiction for the Advocate and consumes concerningly large volumes of tea. ![Juliet Coe](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mitranolab/files/juliet_coe.jpg?itok=--wLiasD) [### Jaiden David Edelman ](/people/jaiden-edelman) [jaiden\_edelman@college.harvard.edu](mailto:jaiden_edelman@college.harvard.edu)Undergraduate Student Class of 2024, Harvard University person [### Filippo Glerean ](/people/filippo-glerean) Postdoctoral Scholar Filippo earned his PhD in 2021 with Prof. Daniele Fausti at the University of Trieste, Italy, combining ultrafast spectroscopy with quantum optics to study light-matter interaction in the few photon regime. In the Mitrano Lab, he will investigate complex... ![Filippo_headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/4599_2400W.jpg?itok=EToUcw3Y) [### Ziqiang Guan ](/people/ziqiang-guan) [ziqiang\_guan@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:ziqiang_guan@fas.harvard.edu)Graduate Student Ziqiang Guan is a Physics graduate student interested in studying ultrafast dynamics of quantum materials by using optical spectroscopy. He received his B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Tsinghua University, China, in 2022. Outside of the lab, he... ![ZiqiangGuan](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mitranolab/files/ziqiang_guan.jpg?itok=Tb3tV3JP) [### Tepie Meng ](/people/tepie-meng) Graduate Student Tepie is a physics graduate student interested in the means of ultrafast optical methods and scattering probes to study emergent phenomena in quantum materials. Her main systems of interests include quantum spin liquid candidates and organic charge... ![tepid_headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/4596_2400W.jpg?itok=KnCUqACm) [### Hari Padma ](/people/hari-padmanabhan) Postdoctoral Scholar Hari Padma completed his doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State, advised by Prof. Venkatraman Gopalan. His dissertation work focused on investigating spin-lattice coupling pathways in layered magnetic materials, employing steady... ![Hari Padmanabhan](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mitranolab/files/hari_padmanabhan.jpg?itok=hf6WBt6K) [### Luiz Gustavo Pimenta Martins ](/people/luiz-gustavo-pimenta-martins) Harvard Quantum Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow Luiz earned his PhD in Physics at MIT in 2022 under supervision of Profs. Riccardo Comin and Jing Kong. The core of his PhD work was on high-pressure optical (steady-state) spectroscopic studies of atomically-thin van der Waals materials, with a focus on... ![Luiz Profile photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mitranolab/files/13775942_1231144810230056_3461179475718305005_n.jpg?itok=NWdaX7Ek) [### Sophia TenHuisen ](/people/sophia-tenhuisen) Graduate Student Sophia TenHuisen is a PhD student interested in ultrafast optical methods as a tool for studying out-of-equilibrium properties of quantum materials. She received her bachelor’s degree in physics from Smith College in 2018, where her thesis earned highest... ![Sophia_headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/4585_2400W.jpg?itok=Z94mNvK0)