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We are a research group in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Department of Physics at Harvard University under the direction of Eric Mazur.



 

  [### Eric Mazur

 ](/people/eric-mazur) <mazur@physics.harvard.edu>Principal Investigator

 

 

 

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   [### Virginia Casas

 ](/people/virginia-casas) <vcasas@seas.harvard.edu>Administrative Assistant

 

 

 

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   [### Fan Du

 ](/people/fan-du) [fan\_du@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:fan_du@fas.harvard.edu)Graduate Student

Zero-index Metamaterials

 

 

 

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   [### Isaura Gallegos

 ](/people/isaura-gallegos) <igallegos@g.harvard.edu>Graduate Student

Physics Education

 

 

 

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   [### Manan Machida

 ](/people/manan-machida) [manan.machida0126@gmail.com ](<mailto:manan.machida0126@gmail.com >)Visiting Graduate Student

 

 

 

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   [### Olivia Mello

 ](/people/olivia-mello) <oliviamello@g.harvard.edu>Graduate Student

Zero-index Metamaterials

 

 

 

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   [### Kelly Miller

 ](/people/kelly-miller) <kmiller@seas.harvard.edu>Other

 

 

 

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   [### Weilu Shen

 ](/people/weilu-shen) <weilus@stanford.edu>Associate &amp; Alumna, Applied Physics PhD 2022

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University

Biophotonics

 

 

 

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   [### Haoning Tang

 ](/people/haoning-tang) <hat431@g.harvard.edu>Postdoc

Zero-index Metamaterials

 

 

 

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   [### Larissa Vertchenko

 ](/people/larissa-vertchenko) <lariv@fotonik.dtu.dk>

 

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