People
Athos Petrou
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Mesut Yasar has completed his PhD with Dr. Petrou in 2006. He now works for Janis Cryogenics in Boston. He is originally from Turkey.
Imran Khan Has recently defended his thesis and now is a post doc at Temple University. He is from Noida, India.
Tariq Ali was a graduate student from Peshawar, Pakistan. He recieved his PhD in May of 2011.
Lars Schweidenback is a PhD student who grew up in New Jersey. He received his undergraduate degree in physics from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Presently, he works full time in Petrou Lab.
Dante Quirinale worked in Petrou Lab when he was an undergraduate student at UB majoring in Physics and Math. He is currently in grad school at Iowa State
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Manuel Diaz-Avila is from Puebla, Mexico. He is now an instructor at the Mount Royal College in Calgary, Canada.
Robert Mallory is from Upstate New York. He is now a senior systems engineer at Lockheed Martin in Syracuse, NY.

Lauren Vilardo is an undergraduate student at Hamilton College. She is from Buffalo and is majoring in Physics. Current whereabouts unknown

Athos Petrou is from Cyprus. He received his BS in physics at the University of Athens and his MS and PhD at Purdue University. His research has been funded over the years by over $4.9 M from federal agencies. He has trained 14 PhD students and 15 Masters students. He has also been recognized for the high quality of his teaching with the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and has been recognized by his peers by being elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has served for many years as Director of Graduate Studies and has been principally responsible for the management and operation of the introductory physics laboratories. He currently holds the Rustgi Professorship at UB.
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Andreas Russ is originally from Ulm, Germany, but grew up in Ithaca, NY. After graduating from Ithaca High School, he attended UB for his undergraduate work where he first started working in the lab with Dr. Petrou as an REU. He is currently a graduate student in the PhD Program and works full time in Petrou Lab
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Biplob Barman hails from Guwahati, Assam, India. He did his B.Sc. & M.Sc. from University of Delhi, India. Apparently, he loves cooking, because that is what he told me to write here. He has a really delightful green shirt.
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David Elsaesser grew up right next to UB campus, and worked in Petrou Lab as a Physics Undergrad at UB. He now goes to RPI for grad school to escape Petrou Lab
Yu Tsung Tsai, known as Rembrant or Rem, wanders in and out of the lab, perpetually being amazed at minor things and commenting on how they are "weird." He also steals all of the coffee and then puts salt in it. He is from Taiwan
Tom Scrace leaves at random times throught the day claiming that it is to play baseball, which he seems to think is more important than having a job. He also refuses to have a NY flag.
Matt Gorfien, from Buffalo is a UB Physics undergraduate working in the lab. His soldering skills are highly valued.
Joe Murphy, from Batavia in NY, is not really in Petrou Lab, but Cartwright lab. However, he spends all of his time in Petrou Lab bossing people around and getting involved in things that are none of his buisness

 

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Nathanial Feldberg, known as Teaf to most, is from Dobbs Ferry. He is an undergrad at UB who comes from time to time to Petrou Lab under the pretense of helping us, only to annoy everyone with his singing
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