Dr. Menka Jain
Associate Professor, Institute of Materials Science & Department of Physics
| Dr. Menka Jain is a Professor in Physics Department and Institute of Materials Science at UConn. Before joining UConn in 2008, she was Director’s Funded Postdoctoral Fellowship in Materials Physics & Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA (2005-2008). Dr. Jain’s research is focused on fabrication and characterization of advanced functional and multifunctional metal-oxide material systems, such as the electric-field tunable dielectric materials, ferroelectrics, magnetoelectric multiferroics, ferromagnetic materials, magnetic sensing materials, magnetocaloric materials, etc. Dr. Jain’s area of expertise is in successfully synthesizing these metal-oxides in thin film, nanoparticle, nanocomposite, heterostructure, and multilayer forms using solution based techniques and characterizing these materials to understand their structure-size-property relations. She has about 90 significant publications in high impact refereed journals, such as Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Materials, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of American Chemical Society, etc. Dr. Jain has organized many symposiums in Materials Research Society (MRS) and American Ceramic Society meetings. She has co-edited three MRS conference proceedings and three special Journal of Nanotechnology issues on Nanocomposites (2011-2013). Dr. Jain’s research work is supported by university-funded and National Science Foundation funded grants. She also serve as a panel member and ad-hoc reviewer for various federal funding agencies, such as National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and Petroleum Research Fund.
Contact addresses:
Email: menka.jain (at) uconn.edu ; Tel: 860-486-4090
Follow on Twitter: MJ20082
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Graduate Students: (Looking for self-motivated PhD candidates)
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Jacob Pfund
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Zachary Ritchey
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Postdoc
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Dr. Theodore (Teddy) Sauyet
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Undergraduate Students:
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Michael Frank
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Nicholas Thiel-Hudson
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Past Members of the group:
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Dr. Jianhang Shi (defended thesis in November 2021). Currently a Postdoc at Ohio State University, OH
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Dr. Shiqi Yin (defended thesis in January 2018). Currently working in Global Foundaries in Albany, NY
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Dr. Austin McDannald (completed PhD in 2016), then joined M Cubed Tech. company. Currently a staff member at NIST.
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Dr. Margo Staruch (Completed PhD in 2013), currently a staff member at Naval Research Lab
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Dr. L. Civale Los Alamos National Laboratory (retired)
2023 |
Dr. D. Garcia Univ. Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
2018 |
Professor Devendra Kumar Indian Institute of Technology (Varanasi, India)
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Dr. Rohit Prasannakumar Los Alamos National Lab, NM
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R. Paranhos (Visiting PhD Student from Brazil, 2014), Completed PhD in 2016
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Dr. Maria A. G. Soler, Instituto de Física, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil |
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| Undergraduates working in Jains lab: | |||
REU students (Allison and Asmaa) from Smiths College, MA (Summer 2023) |
REU student Asmaa) from Smiths College, MA |
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Mark Johnson (UConn) graduated in 2019.
Currently he is pursuing his PhD at UMass Amherst
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Ms. Sonia Martin from UC Berkeley (REU, Summer 2018)
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| Ms. Gabi Tagliaferro
Summer 2017 (through REU)
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Ms. Aisha
McNair Fellow, Summer 2017
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Mr. Teddy Sauyet (BS),Summer 2015 (Miller award recipient), Spring 2016, Fall 2016, and Spring 2017 (Now a grad student at Stony Brooks Univ)
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Mr Michael
McNair Fellow, Summer 2016
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| Lillian Skou (BS)
Summer 2015, Fall 2015
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Mr. Cristian (BS)
McNair Fellow Summer 2015
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Ms. Kelly Cochran (BS)
Summer 2014
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Mr. Matt (BS)
2 weeks in Summer 2014
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| Mr. Lukasz Kuna (BS, 2014) Currently NRC postdoctoral fellow.
(worked for 1.5 years in lab, also a recipient of SURF award)
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Mr. Nambi (BS)Summer 2014, McNair Fellow
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Mr. Daniel Violettee (BS)
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Mr. Drew Hires (BS) |
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