I’m excited to share that my latest paper, published in Nature Communications with former graduate student Cameron Allen, confirms a 200-year-old prediction by Fourier—this time in high-energy-density plasmas. We observed that heat doesn’t always flow smoothly between materials in extreme conditions. Instead, it can get trapped at the boundary—a phenomenon known as interfacial thermal resistance…
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This past week, my collaborators and I wrapped up an exciting experiment at the European XFEL, where we used high-resolution meV inelastic X-ray scattering to measure temperatures inside matter heated to over 10,000 Kelvin. It’s a major step forward in our ability to probe extreme states of matter with atomic-level detail. The team included researchers…
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In this episode of Sagebrushers, University of Nevada, Reno President Brian Sandoval speaks with Associate Professor Thomas White. White researches space not by gazing at the sky, but by replicating astrophysical conditions in the laboratory, effectively creating mini-planets and stars. https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2024/sagebrushers-s3-ep4-thomas-white
Graduate student Sarah Shores Prins was recently awarded the 2024-25 Graduate Research Opportunity Fellowship from the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium. This competitive award grants its recipients with $20,000 during the length of the fellowship. These funds help support Sarah as she pursues research measuring the thermal conductivity of iron alloys under conditions similar to…
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Congratulations to undergraduate student Jaya Sicard for receiving the 2024-25 NV NASA Undergraduate Scholarship. This competitive award requires students to submit a research proposal, and grants its recipients with $3,000 over 2 semesters to support their proposed research. These funds aid Jaya in her research investigating the thermal conductivity of warm dense magnesium oxide. Great…
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Congratulations to Landon Morrison for being awarded a Mission Support and Test Services (MSTS) Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Landon will be working with our group on hydrodynamic simulations of our OMEGA experiments on the transport properties of warm dense matter.
We are so excited to be one of three groups at UNR awarded grants in plasma research from the DOE/NNSA high-energy-density program. Read more about our research here!
Congratulations to Leo Rodriguez and Tyreis Gatson for presenting their work at the Nevada Undergraduate Research Symposium after their summer participating in the Pack Research Experience Program (PREP)
Congratulations, Jacob, for winning the 2021 Goldwater Scholarship, the only student in Nevada to do so. What an incredible well-deserved achievement! 2021 Goldwater Scholars listed by Institution State
I am thrilled to receive the NSF early career award and am grateful for the support of the NSF! Hear more about it in my interview with the college of science.