Principal Investigator
Eric Tervo
Position title: Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Email:
tervo
Eric Tervo is a professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering at UW-Madison. He also has a joint appointment with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Prior to joining UW-Madison, he was the Nozik Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, where he designed, fabricated, and characterized thermal energy conversion devices including thermophotovoltaic cells and thermoradiative cells. He completed his Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he developed theoretical and computational methods to study thermal radiation in nanoscale materials. He also worked as an engineer at Southwest Research Institute, where he conducted fluid dynamics research for oil and gas industry applications.
Senior Personnel
Jeremy Kirch
Position title: Research Scientist
Email:
jdkirch
Research Interests: Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition, semiconductor device design, material and device characterization
Graduate Students
Titilope Dada
Position title: Graduate Research Assistant
Email:
tmdada
Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering.
Research Interests: Solar cells, sustainable energy, thermophotovoltaics
Parth Solanki
Position title: Graduate Research Assistant
Email:
psolanki2
M.S. Student in Mechanical Engineering.
Research Interests: Heat transfer, near-field thermal radiation, energy systems.
Vida Nooshnab
Position title: Graduate Research Assistant
Email:
nooshnab
Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering.
Research Interests: Light-matter interactions, plasmonics, metamaterials
Yuting Li
Position title: Graduate Research Assistant
Email:
yli2423
Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering.
Research Interests: III-V semiconductors, microfabrication, thermophotovoltaics
Debarati Sen
Position title: Graduate Research Assistant
Email:
debarati.sen
Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Solid-state electronics, optics and photonics, energy devices
Undergraduate Students
Justin Maina
Position title: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Email:
jnmaina
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, May 2026
Linda Hao
Position title: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Email:
yhao68
B.S. Electrical Engineering, May 2027
Ethan Li
Position title: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Email:
yli2494
B.S. Computer Engineering & Computer Science, May 2026
Umar Khan
Position title: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Email:
uakhan6
B.S. Computer Science and Data Science, May 2026
Yuxuan Chen
Position title: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Email:
chen2395
B.S. Electrical Engineering, May 2026
Alec Marshall
Position title: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Email:
amarshall8
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, December 2025
We are always looking for undergraduate research assistants in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering! If you might like to join us, please contact Prof. Tervo with a resume, a description of your research interests, and a description of what interests you about our work.