Alejandro Matos Email & Phone Number

Albany, New York, United States

Troy, New York, United States

In Prof. Daniel Gall's research group, my graduate project consists of designing and building a novel magnetron deposition system that allows for in situ resistivity measurement of thin films. In addition, I work closely with others in my research group on a variety of projects like looking for new materials that can outperform Copper in integrated circuits and ways to form metastable phases of Ruthenium.

Researched prominent sources of noise affecting superconducting transmon qubits under the supervision of Dr. Eric Holland. Became familiar with quasiparticle tunneling through Josephson Junctions, Two-level Systems (TLS) and recent findings of a subgroup of TLS termed quasiparticle Two-level Systems (qTLS).

Troy, New York

Computational Materials Physics Research under the supervision of Prof. Vincent Meunier. Isomer modeling and stability assessment applying Graph Theory in Python (JupyterNotebook). Generated the graphs of fullerene isomers and assessed their stability only using graph-theoretical properties. Found novel ways to correct REBO-generated energies to match DFT energies using the properties of the molecule’s graph.

Troy, New York

Assist in weekly Honors Physics 2 labs and hold 2 hours of office hours a week.

Troy, New York

Led two groups of 10 students in weekly mentoring sessions and held weekly office hours to help with homework and studying.

Miami, Florida

Worked on epitaxial thin film fabrication and skyrmion detection with Prof. Sunxian Huang's team. The goal of this research was to improve our fundamental knowledge of spintronics which could lead to beyond Moore's era devices. I helped with the measurement of the Hall Effect on films, contact photolithography, wire bonding, and soldering.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Materials Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics

Activities and Societies: Outing Club, Radio