News
Student awards: Dale is selected as a UCR CAMP Scholar
Congratulations to Dale for being selected as a UCR California Alliance for Maximizing Potential (CAMP) Scholar! Dale will continue his research in the Joe Lab this Fall.
Advancement to Ph.D. Candidacy
Congratulations to Hongyu, Zhihan, and Mona on successfully passing their oral qualifying exams this summer and officially advancing to Ph.D. candidacy!
Andy presents to local teachers at the CNAS Summer Science Symposium
Andy introduces 2D materials and emerging quantum materials to local Riverside teachers at the CNAS Summer Science Symposium.
Andy receives the NSF CAREER Award
The Joe Lab has been funded by the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program!
The Joe Lab is funded by the UCR Research Seed Funding and Grant Program
The Joe Lab has been funded by the UCR Research Seed Funding and Grant Program to pursue a joint study on quasi-1D superconductors.
Welcome new lab members!
We welcome a new round of undergraduate students. Welcome to Chloe, Chris, and Edmundas who started during the academic year, and our summer undergraduate students Dale, Ethan, Jeremiah, Ria, Henry, and Yana.
Graduating Undergraduates
The Joe Lab has three seniors graduating and attending graduate school. Congratulations to Juan Arreola (University of Michigan), Federico Lopez Iturburu (UC Davis), and Louis Lin (UCLA).
Joe Lab end of academic year dinner
March Meeting Talks 2026
The Joe Lab will be presenting at the APS Global Summit 2026 in Denver! Attend our talks to learn about our latest research progress in sessions MAR-B19 by Hongyu and MAR-C19 by Qiao:
Joe Lab end of year dinner
Publication: Electrically Controlled Interlayer Trion Fluid in Electron-Hole Bilayers
Andy’s study on electrically controlled interlayer trions has ben published in Science!
Welcome new lab members!
Two new graduate students join the group. Welcome to Mona Rezavand and Daniel Torres!
Juan presents his poster at the RISE/MARC symposium
Juan Arreola presents his summer research poster at the RISE/MARC symposium!
The Joe Lab is funded by the Academic Senate's Regents Faculty Fellowship
The Joe Lab has been funded by the Committee on Research of the Riverside Division of the Academic Senate to pursue studies on TMD heterostructures!
Welcome summer lab members!
Welcome to our UCR RISE undergraduate, Juan, and two Crafton Hills College students, Noemi and Jorge!
Andy is selected as a Scialog Fellow
Andy is selected as a Scialog Fellow for Quantum Matter and Information and will participate in Quantum Matter and Information Scialog meeting hosted by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA).
Student awards: Congratulations to Vanessa, Louis, and Juan
Congratulations to Vanessa Kwong, Louis Lin, and Juan Arreola for winning end-of-year undergraduate Physics department awards!
Publication: Perfect Coulomb Drag and Exciton Transport in an Excitonic Insulator
Prof. Joe’s study on optically detecting perfect Coulomb drag of interlayer excitons is published in Science!
Welcome to Qiao Li
Welcome to our new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Qiao Li!
Louis is funded for his UCR Mini-Grant: Automated Exfoliation Machine for Producing Two-dimensional, van der Waals Materials
Louis has been funded for a UCR Mini-Grant to build and test his auto-exfoliation machine for 2D materials. Congratulations!
The Joe Lab is funded by the ACS Petroleum Research Fund
The Joe lab has been funded by the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research fund!
Joe Lab end of year dinner
Cal-State University San Bernardino Visit Day
Andy hosts physics undergraduates from Cal-State University San Bernardino (CSUSB) for a visit day of the condensed matter experimental labs at UCR.
Link to Physics Department News article: https://www.physics.ucr.edu/news/2024/10/23/cal-state-university-san-bernardino-visit-day
Vanessa is selected for STR program
Congratulations to Vanessa Kwong for being selected to participate in the prestigious Students Transforming Through Research (STR) Program!
Check out the UCR News article: https://insideucr.ucr.edu/awards/2024/10/16/ucr-team-participate-national-undergraduate-research-program
Publication: Controlled Interlayer Exciton Ionization in an Electrostatic Trap in Atomically Thin Heterostructures
Our study on controlled interlayer exciton ionization is published in Nature Communications!
Welcome summer lab members!
We welcome summer undergraduate researchers Harit, Lucas, Martin, and Mariah!
Joe Lab group outing
We had our first group outing to Lake Arrowhead!
Cryostat installation complete!
We have our new Attodry 2100 installation complete!
Welcome new lab members!
Two new undergraduate students join the group. Welcome to Louis and Federico!
Publication: Transport Study of Charge-Carrier Scattering in Monolayer WSe$_2$
Our transport study on charge-carrier scattering in monolayer WSe$_2$ is published in Physical Review Letters!
Welcome new lab members!
Two new undergraduate students join the group. Welcome to Daniel Bartolome and Christan Jin!
Publication: Thermodynamic behavior of correlated electron-hole fluids in van der Waals heterostructures
A paper studying electron-hole fluids in van der Waals heterostructures from work at UC Berkeley is published in Nature Communications!
Welcome new lab members!
Two new students join the group. Welcome to Hongyu Yao, a graduate student, and Vanessa Kwong, an undergraduate student!
Welcome new lab members!
Our first graduate students, S.M. Umayer and Zhihan Wu, join the group. Welcome!
The Joe Lab website launches
The Joe Lab website launches and we begin our search to build the lab! Interested students and postdocs should check out the Contact page and reach out!
