Archives: Speakers

Uday Goteti is a Postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego under the supervision of Prof. Robert Dynes. He is currently working on disordered superconducting circuits to develop understanding of information processing in neural networks and designing circuits for applications in Neuromorphic computing. He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University, Alabama in 2019. His research interests include novel devices and circuits for low-power and high-speed computing beyond von-Neumann architectures.

Joel Weber is a PREP Senior Research Associate in the Quantum Sensors Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He currently conducts research on the design, fabrication, and testing of transition edge sensors for high- resolution x-ray spectroscopy with a focus on developing novel, bilayer detectors. Joel received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder followed by a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at NIST during which time his work centered on light-emitting nanowire probes for scanning tunneling microscopy and nanoscale lithography.

Jasmin Congreve is a postdoctoral researcher in the Bulk Superconductivity Group in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Her recent work has focused on developing superconducting joints utilizing bulk (RE)BCO superconductors. She completed a PhD in 2019 in the same group. This focused on improving the mechanical properties of bulk YBCO, and developed a reliable fabrication route for YBCO-Ag single grains. Jasmin’s expertise is in the fabrication, joining and mechanical characterization of bulk (RE)BCO.

Laura Piperno is a postoctoral fellow currently working on Iron-based superconductors (IBSCs) at ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development. Graduated in chemistry in 2016 with a thesis on chemical deposition of YBa₂Cu₃O_7-x, she has been applying her skills to fusion-related projects ever since. Dr. Piperno received her Ph.D. in Applied Electronics from Roma Tre University, and kept collaborating with national and international institutions such as the aforementioned ENEA and Roma Tre University, the Italian National Research Council (CNR), the Barcelona Institute of Material Science (ICMAB), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUCN). Her research led to the publication of about twenty peer reviewed journal articles and received several awards such as ESAS Young Researcher Awards, E-MRS Graduate Student Award and Park AFM Scholarship. In early 2022, she won the EUROfusion researcher grant with a project aimed at developing new low-cost, chemical methodologies for the integration of IBSCs in the state-of-the-art conductor technology.

Daniel Bafia is an associate scientist at the superconducting quantum materials and systems center at Fermilab studying the origins of RF loss in materials used in the fabrication of 3-D resonators and superconducting qubits. In addition to his research, he currently serves as the cavity technical lead at Fermilab for the LCLS-II HE project. He obtained his PhD from Illinois Institute of Technology in 2020 where he focused on understanding the origins of loss in niobium superconducting radio-frequency cavities which won him first place at the IPAC’19 conference student poster competition.

Dr. Daniel S. Davis has recently finished his Postdoc to start a Visiting Research Faculty position at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory’s Applied Superconductivity Center. There he continues his work on ultra-high-field HTS magnet technology, driven by a strong passion for HTS technology R&D and the desire for mentoring students. Beginning with his PhD thesis studies of quench management of Bi-2212 magnets (FSU-Physics-2019), he has balanced experimental, simulation, and analysis efforts, leveraging and strengthening collaborations with the high energy physics community, particularly with the US-DOE-MDP and CERN. During a six- month stay at the LBNL with Dr. Tengming Shen, which was made possible by a DOE- SCGSR grant that he was awarded, he developed HTS quench simulations together with Dr. Emmanuele Ravaioli using LEDET (now part of CERN’s STEAM framework) for both UHF solenoids and HEP cable-wound dipoles to demonstrate a path to implementing Bi-2212 in full-scale industrial and accelerator magnets. His current work includes both HEP/fusion motivated cable-wound high field test solenoids of both Bi-2212 Rutherford cable and ReBCO CORC® as well as industry collaborations towards 25 T class compact research magnets and UHF NMR magnets beyond 30 T/1.2 GHz made with Bi-2212 round wire.

Simon Otten obtained a MSc in applied physics from Twente University in 2014. After that he worked at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology as a PhD student on the topic of REBCO Roebel cables. Since 2019, he is a postdoctoral researcher at Twente University and is involved in research for different applications of superconductors, including Nb₃Sn accelerator magnets and HTS linear motors.