Workforce Development

Undergraduate and graduate students from the Physics, Chemistry, and Materials Engineering departments at UIC have received hands-on technical training in high-pressure sample preparation, a variety of experimental techniques at both laboratory and synchrotron-based facilities, and computational materials design.

Collaboration

This initiative has strengthened both domestic and international collaboration, engaging students and researchers from various departments and institutes in the U.S., as well as from international institutions such as the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, India in joint research and training activities.

Students actively contributed to instrumentation development

Students were trained to study crystal structures, phonon dynamics, and other physical properties under extreme pressure and temperature conditions.

Students were trained to develop skills in machine learning and AI-assisted computational materials design.