Nikolas Hall Email & Phone Number

Claremont, CA, US

Claremont, California, United States

I contribute to studies of lead sulfide quantum dot solar cells. In this role, I have helped develop a blade-coating procedure for our quantum dots, fabricated solar cells, and measured their efficiencies. For my senior thesis, I am using intensity-modulated photocurrent spectroscopy to measure carrier lifetimes.

Claremont, California, United States

I tutor for Academic Excellence, a peer tutoring service for Harvey Mudd College's Core Curriculum. During weekly tutoring hours, I offer homework help and concept review for students taking courses in special relativity, calculus-based mechanics, and electromagnetism.

Claremont, California, United States

I assist Isabel Balseiro, a Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvey Mudd College, as she conducts research into the life of María Acuña, a 20th-century Spanish poet. My work has involved organizing research materials, indexing the poet's notebooks, and transcribing interviews about her life.

Claremont, California, United States

I filtered the NASA Exoplanet Archive to create distributions of mass, eccentricity, and period ratio in compact exoplanet systems. These informed the planetary dynamics simulations of fellow student Brandon Bonifacio.This work was supervised by Daniel Tamayo, a Professor of Astrophysics at Harvey Mudd College.

Claremont, California, United States

I graded and held weekly tutoring hours for CS 5, Harvey Mudd's Python-based introductory computer science course.

Claremont, California, United States

I continued to design and revise experiments for Harvey Mudd's Core chemistry laboratory course. This involved developing new procedures, testing experiments from previous years, and updating the course's laboratory manual.

Claremont, California, United States

I helped develop a metal-organic framework synthesis for Harvey Mudd's Core chemistry laboratory course, which is taken by all first-year students.

Boise, Idaho, United States

I studied boron-doped manganese-aluminum-gallium rare-earth-free magnets. My work involved melting down alloys, performing heat treatments, and characterizing their magnetic hysteresis. As a separate project, I helped quantify the effects of shot peening at various pressures on the magnetomechanical properties of a magnetic shape-memory alloy.

Ithaca, New York, United States

I used spectral line emission to study gas in high-redshift galaxies. For two galaxies, I created spatially resolved maps of line emission from ionized carbon and nitrogen. I presented my findings through a research talk and poster session at Cornell.

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Olimpiada Panameña de Matemática; English tutoring; Balboa Academy Ecology, Math, and Chess Clubs; National.