Current Members

Ismail

Ismail El Baggari, PhD

Principal Investigator
60 Oxford St
Cambridge, MA 02138
ielbaggari [at] fas.harvard.edu
ismail.elbaggari [at] gmail.com

Yang

Yang Zhang, PhD

Post-Doctoral Fellow
PhD in Material Science and Engineering
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
yzhang6 [at] fas.harvard.edu


Suk Hyun

Suk Hyun Sung, PhD

Post-Doctoral Fellow
PhD in Material Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, MI
ssung [at] g.harvard.edu


Carly Grossman

Undergraduate Reseacher
Tufts University
Major: Chemistry & Math


Travis Burke

Undergraduate Reseacher
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Major: Mechanical Engineering


Ari Firester

Undergraduate Reseacher
Harvard University
Major: Mechanical Engineering


JaKayla Harris

Undergraduate Reseacher
Harvard University
Major: Physics


Former Members

Emily (EmJ) Rennich
Undergraduate Researcher
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Current Position: Stanford University


Sarah McDonald
Undergraduate Intern
Major: Mechanical Engineering


Dr. Hesham El Sherif
Post-Doctoral Fellow
PhD, McMaster University


Patrick Singleton
Undergraduate Researcher
A.B. Physics and Mathematics, Harvard College
Current Position: University of Chicago

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Latest Posts

Cryogenic STEM reveals phenomenon of inverse melting in doped ferroelectric

A cryogenic scanning transmission electron microscopy (cryo-STEM) study reveals the phenomenon of inverse melting in Zr-doped BaTiO3.

Variable temperature cryogenic STEM reveals charge order melting in new publication

A cryogenic scanning transmission electron microscope reveals the atomic-scale mechanism that disrupts the charge-ordered state in a manganite material. The visualizations were performed at the atomic scale and across variable temperatures. This work by Noah Schnitzer was published in Physical Review X.

Higher resolution in a second prototype liquid helium holder

Following initial demonstration of a novel liquid helium flow cryogenic TEM holder in 2023, our team assembled subsequent prototypes that have shown sub-Angstrom HRTEM imaging, low sample drift (less than 0.4 Angstrom per second), and low millikelvin-level temperature fluctuations.