
Graduate Student Researcher at University of California at San Diego
Greater San Diego Area

Graduate Student Researcher at University of California at San Diego
Greater San Diego Area
• Experienced researcher in the field of condensed matter physics and nanotechnology.
• Expert user of a wide range of nanofabrication tools, including e-beam lithography, photolithography, plasma etching, magnetron sputtering, evaporative coating etc.
• Experienced user of scanning and transmission electron microscopes, laser systems, cryogenic systems.
• Experienced in development of LabVIEW and MATLAB based software and document preparation in LaTeX.
• Fluent in Russian, English, and Lithuanian including technical language. Basic knowledge of Japanese.
nanofabrication, photolithography, electron beam lithography, electron microscopy, semiconductor physics
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)
Currently working in the group of professor Leonid Butov. Specializing in semiconductor structure nanofabrication, and studies of quasiparticles generated by laser excitation at cryogenic temperatures.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
June 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Worked in the group of professor Alexey Bezryadin. Major responsibilities included development of fabrication process to attach electrical probes to a sub-10nm nanowire samples on a transmission electron microscope compatible substrate, as well as scanning/transmission electron analysis of existing samples.
PhD , Physics, Experimental Condensed Matter , 2006 — 2012 (expected)
Thesis work focused on physics of indirect excitons in tunable potential lattices.
BS , Physics , 2002 — 2005
Bachelor of Physics with distinction awarded in Spring of 2005.
Research project published:
Sub-10 nanometre fabrication: molecular templating, electron-beam sculpting and crystallization of metallic nanowires
M. Remeika, A. Bezryadin Nanotechnology, 16 1172 (2005).
condensed matter physics, semiconductor physics, nanotechnology, metamaterials, solar energy research, environmentally sustainable technology,
American Physical Society
GAANN Fellow 2006-07