Goodbye to Prof. Thomas Folland!
It is a bittersweet day for the lab, but we have now officially said goodbye to our postdoc extraordinaire Tom Folland.
Tom started at Vanderbilt a month before me, working to setup the lab and get things in order. This is what he arrived to see on his first day!
During his time the group grew from 1 to 6 graduate students, multiple new collaborations, multiple visits from collaborators and students and 31 papers, with at least 13 in preparation! Additionally 2 patents were filed! Tom was a primary architect for the group, helping with the installation and maintenance of the equipment in the lab, which now features 2 FTIRs with hyperion microscopes, a s-SNOM, full NIR-UV laser bay, closed cycle cryogenic bolometer, broad variety of simulation tools and an exceptionally robust research team. See the change in the lab from this image taken on his last day!
The group owes a huge debt of gratitude to Tom and we are so excited to see where his new position as an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Iowa will take him!
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