CONTACT FOR GRADUATE STUDENT MATTERS

Professor Balandin is Vice Chair for Graduate Education at the UCLA Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The MSE department website features the answers to all basic questions, e.g.: https://www.mse.ucla.edu/graduate-requirements/. If the answer is not found, the next step is to communicate with Jasmine Agustin, Graduate Student Affairs Officer by email or in person. Her contact information is 3121-K Engineering V; Phone: (310) 825-8913 Email: jagustin@seas.ucla.edu  

CONTACT FOR RESEARCH MATTERS

Balandin Group operates the Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials (UCLA POEM) Laboratory, which is located on the ground floor in the Engineering V building. The main POEM Lab hosts electrical, thermal, and low-frequency noise measurement equipment, glove boxes, and transfer systems for van der Waals materials, microscopy, and other equipment. The Raman and Brillouin Spectroscopy Laboratory (SPECTRA Lab), part of the POEM Laboratory, is in a separate location on the group floor in the Engineering V building. The Cryogenic Brillouin – Mandelstam Spectroscopy (BMS) Facility is located on the ground floor of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). The equipment for chemical exfoliation, processing, and composite preparation is located in the shared research space in the Engineering VI building. Contact the Lab Manager Dr. Subhajit Ghosh for specific research instruments and equipment. 

Group PI: Dr. Alexander Balandin, MSE department, first office, 3rd floor of Engineering V

Lab Manager: Dr. Subhajit Ghosh, research engineer office, ground floor of Engineering V; E-mail: sghos013@g.ucla.edu