People
![]() |
Alexey Arefiev ![]() Alexey Arefiev joined the faculty at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering in 2017. He received his B.Sc. in physics from Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and his Ph.D in physics from The University of Texas at Austin. |
![]() |
Mario Manuel ![]() Enter the your biography here |
![]() |
David Blackman ![]() Started working at UCSD as a Post-Doctoral researcher with Alexey at the beginning of 2020. Obtained a PhD from University of York in 2017 at the York Plasma Institute with John Pasley and Alex Robinson (at RAL) on short-pulse shock-generation. Worked as a Post-Doc with Vladimir Tikhonchuk and Rachel Nuter on plasma waves with OAM at CELIA in the University of Bordeaux from 2018-2020. |
![]() |
Haotian Mao ![]() Haotian Mao became a PhD student at UCSD in April 2019. Prior to this, he graduated as a master student from Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department at UCSD. He received a B.Sc. in Energy & Power Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University in China. |
![]() |
I-Lin Yeh ![]() I-Lin Yeh started the Ph.D. at UCSD Physics in the 2019 fall and joined the Arefiev group in the 2020 summer. He received a B.Sc. in Physics and MS in Space and Plasma Sciences from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. |
![]() |
Kavin Tangtartharakul ![]() Kavin Tangtartharakul graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UCSD in Spring 2018. |
![]() |
Michael Pokornik I started my phd at UCSD in the fall of 2019. Previously, I graduated with a MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University and received a B.S. in Applied Physics and a BA in Mathematics from Texas Lutheran University. Before joining the lab I worked at General Atomics as a computational laser scientist. |
![]() |
Yutong He Yutong He joined the Arefiev group in Fall 2018. He holds undergraduate degrees from UCSD in physics and mathematics. He is mainly interested in computational physics. |