| May 24, 2026 | Dr. Zhou hosted the group on Sunday, May 24th for a summer time backyard barbecue to celebrate Memorial Day weekend and all of the hard work everyone put in during the 2025-2026 school year! |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Dr. Zhou and Maria Rekus traveled to the University of Maryland at College Park to attend the Engineered Scalable Quantum Ferroics and Multiferroics Workshop! |
| Feb 17, 2026 | Congratulations to Will McCurley on his formal acceptance into the Auburn University physics PhD program! He will continue his research with our group starting this coming fall semester. |
| Feb 09, 2026 | Will McCurley has received both the Comer Medal for Excellence in Physical Sciences , and the Dean Schneller Award. This is the highest level of undergraduate recognition within the College of Sciences and Mathematics at Auburn. Congratulations Will! |
| Jan 07, 2026 | Please welcome the newest addition to our research group, graduate student Justin Cahaan! Justin received his B.S. in Physics from University of California, Irvine. He is also a recipient of the Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship from Auburn University. |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Our paper has been published by 2D Materials: Dilute Magnetic Impurity-Induced Effective Phonon Magnetic Moment in Fe-doped Monolayer MoS2. |
| Oct 30, 2024 | Our paper has been published by Nature: Phonon modes and electron-phonon coupling at the FeSe/SrTiO3 interface. |
| Aug 08, 2024 | Our paper has been published by JACS: Bonding-Directed Crystallization of Ultra-Long One-Dimensional NbS3 van der Waals Nanowires. |
| Aug 01, 2024 | I have started my new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Auburn University TODAY! |
| Jul 09, 2024 | Our paper has been accepted by Physical Review B: Higher-dimensional spin selectivity in chiral crystals. |
| May 13, 2024 | Our paper has been published in Nature Materials: Exceptional electronic transport and quantum oscillations in thin bismuth crystals grown inside van der Waals materials. |
| Jan 06, 2024 | Our paper has been published in Nature Communications: Controllable strain-driven topological phase transition and dominant surface-state transport in HfTe5. |
