Charles Tschirhart
KIC Experimental Fellow (2022 - pres)
I am originally from Naperville, Illinois. I moved to southern California for college and stayed in southern California for graduate school, although I spent a year in the Fulbright program living in the UK.
Research
I am an experimental physicist working on understanding and exploiting interaction-driven phases. I am especially interested in topological phases and magnetism. I enjoy building machines and have extensive experience in scientific instrumentation. I am currently working with Kin Fai Mak and Jie Shan, studying interaction-driven phases in transition metal dichalcogenides.
I did undergraduate degrees in Applied Physics and Chemistry at Caltech, and I did my PhD in Physics at UCSB. Between my undergraduate and graduate studies I was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Nottingham. I was supported by Hertz and NSF fellowships during my PhD at UCSB.
Awards and Honors
- Hertz Fellow, Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, 2015
- NSF Fellow, National Science Foundation, 2015
Educational Background
- Ph.D. in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), 2022
- Fulbright Scholar, University of Nottingham, UK, 2016
- B.Sc. in Chemistry & Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 2015
