John Gibbs, PhD, Group Leader
John Gibbs is an Associate Professor in the Department Applied Physics and Materials Science at Northern Arizona University where he is also a core faculty member of the Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and Applications (¡MIRA!) at NAU.
Before coming to Arizona, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany, under the direction of Professor Peer Fischer.
Enjoying the water and sunshine in Porto, Portugal.
Current Graduate Students
PhD: John Castañeda, National Science Foundation GRFP Awardee
PhD: Joel Johnson (Primary advisor Prof. Ryan Behunin, NAU)
Current Undergraduate Students
Jeremy Canady
Cara Lozon
Kodie Rodman
Former Research Associate
Amir Nourhani, PhD (Now Assistant Professor at the University of Akron)
Former Postdocs
Dylan Nicholls, PhD (Now scientist at Lam Research)
Former Graduate Students
Nana Amoah, MS
Sterlling Awuye, MS
Michael Bryant, MS (Now PhD Student at NAU)
Ra'Shae Esplin
Joe Goodman
Joel Johnson, MS (Now PhD student at NAU)
Brad Landry, MS (Now scientist in industry - Austin, TX)
Raaman Nair, MS
Dr. Sam Sarkar, PhD
Parash Thapalia, MS
Taylor Thomas, MS
Andrew Wittmeier, MS (Now PhD Student at the University of Göttingen)
Former Undergraduate Students
Theo Beigbeder
Shelly Bort
Daniel Brown
Michael Bryant
Robert Castellanos (Now PhD Student at Colorado State University)
Heather Charles (Now graduate Student at the University of Arizona)
Andrew DeVerse
Nathan Diefenderfer
Samantha Emerson
Ra'Shae Esplin
Victoria Girgis (Now PhD Student at CU Boulder)
Zach Kane
Andrew Leeth Holterhoff
Aaron Leibowitz
Mingyang Li
Yoseph Loyd (Now graduate student at SD School of Mines)
Christopher McDonald
Jacob Mclane (Now PhD Student at UT Austin)
Ian Morris
Etude O’Neel-Judy (Now at W. L. Gore & Associates, Flagstaff, AZ)
Mike Ortiz
Robert Peralta
Nick Pletzer
Brit Riggs
Cody Stein (Now at Raytheon)
Justin Toller
Robert Voinescu (Now PhD Student at CU Boulder)
Nuria Wright-Garba (Now at the National Solar Observatory (NSO))