# Lab Members ## Job Announcement Our group is currently seeking motivated postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students. For more information see [Opportunities](/opportunities) ## Current Members [### 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) [### Kwangrae Kim ](/people/kwangrae-kim)HQI Postdoctoral Fellow Kwangrae Kim is a Postdoctoral Fellow interested in the dynamical control of strongly correlated systems using ultrafast light probes ranging from terahertz and mid-infrared to X-ray regimes. He received this PhD from POSTECH in 2026, where he studied... ![Kwangrae photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-04/kwangraekim.jpeg?itok=6rca-bqc) [### 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) [### 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) [### 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) [### Aulden Jones ](/people/aulden-jones) Graduate Student NSF GRFP Fellow Aulden Jones is a Physics PhD student and NSF GRFP fellow specializing in resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) and ultrafast optical techniques to study strongly correlated quantum materials. He completed his undergraduate degree at the Georgia... ![aulden_cropped_photo_2026](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-05/Profile_photo_Cropped2_Aulden_May2026.JPG?itok=BLJ--rDs) [### Pedro De Oliveira ](/people/pedro-de-oliveira) Graduate Student NSF GRFP Fellow Pedro is a PhD student in Quantum Science and Engineering and NSF GRFP fellow interested in using ultrafast light pulses to control quantum materials and exploring out-of-equilibrium phases in strongly correlated electron systems. He earned his BA in... ![Pedro_photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-11/pedro_mitrano.jpg?h=63a412c2&itok=KpfcEjbH) [### Jesse Hagelstein ](/people/jesse-hagelstein) Graduate Student Jesse is a joint Physics PhD student co-advised by Profs. Matteo Mitrano and Philip Kim. In the Kim group, he uses advanced nanofabrication to build complex 2D materials—such as twisted nodal superconductors; in the Mitrano group, he develops novel... ![Jesse_headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/4580_2400W.jpg?itok=-hCDqS6F) [### Helen Abraha ](/people/helen-abraha) [helen\_abraha@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:helen_abraha@fas.harvard.edu)Faculty Assistant ![Helen_faculty_assistant](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-04/Helen%27s%20photo%202.jpg?itok=FHFT1BYW) ### Undergraduates - Caroline Studebaker - Ipek Eryilmaz (HRCP Awardee) - Amy Kaniper - Siyu Pan (summer student) #### [Alumni](/alumni "Alumni")