JACKW. SIMONSONAssistantProfessorofPhysics
FarmingdaleStateCollegeDepartmentofPhysicsLuptonHall,Room200C
2350BroadhollowRoad
Farmingdale,NY11735
FSCOffice:631-420-2155
BNLOffice:631-344-4939
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EDUCATION
Ph.D.inPhysics,UniversityofVirginia 2009
B.S.inPhysics,CollegeofWilliam andMaryinVirginia 2004
ACADEMICPOSITIONS
AssistantProfessorofPhysics,FarmingdaleStateCollege 2013–presentGuestScientist,BrookhavenNationalLaboratory 2010–presentSr.PostdoctoralAssociate,StonyBrookUniversity 2010–2013
ResearchAssociate,UniversityofVirginia 2010
RESEARCHINTERESTS
•Design,synthesis,andcharacterizationofnewfunctionalmaterials,includingsuperconducting,
magnetic,thermoelectric,andstructuralmaterials
•Hund’sandMott physicsinstronglycorrelatedsystemsandmagneticinsulators
•Relationshipsbetweencrystal/magneticstructureandfunctionalproperties
•Elasticandinelasticneutronandx-rayscattering
•Growthofhighqualitysinglecrystals
•Mentorshipofstudentstosucceedinresearchandtechnologycareers
PROFESSIONALSERVICE
•Member,Campus-wideEnvironmentalHealthSafetyCommitteeatFarmingdaleStateCol-
lege,2014-present
•Member,Campus-wideScholarshipCommitteeatFarmingdaleStateCollege,2014-present
•Advisor,DepartmentofScience,Technology,andSociety(STS)atFarmingdaleStateCollege,
2013-present
•Co-chair,PhysicsMajorCommitteeatFarmingdaleStateCollege,2013-present
•CompetitionJudge,NassauCountyScienceCompetition,June9,2014
•Member,DepartmentofPhysicsChairpersonSearchCommitteeatFarmingdaleStateCollege,
Spring2014
•Judge,LongIslandSTEMDiversitySummit,March21,2014
•Reviewer,LongIslandJuniorScienceandHumanitiesSymposium,March1,2013
•ScienceSessionChair,DOEOfficeofScienceGraduateFellowshipAnnualResearchMeeting,
July30-31,2012
•ActivePeerReviewerforAppliedPhysicsLetters,ChemistryofMaterials,JournalofAlloysandCompounds,JournalofAppliedPhysics,JournalofPhysics:CondensedMatter,Journal
ofSuperconductivityandNovelMagnetism
AWARDS,PROFESSIONALAFFILIATIONS,andSPECIALCOURSES
•Member,AmericanChemicalSociety2014–present
•Member,AmericanPhysicalSociety2008–present
•Member,NewYorkAcademyofSciences2011–2014
•NationalScienceFoundationDay,ColdSpringHarborLaboratoryJune4,2014
•RepresentationalAnalysisandMagneticStructureSchool,GeorgetownUniversity2011
•William J.HumphreysFellowship2004–2005
•VirginiaMicroelectronicsConsortiumScholarship2003
COURSESTAUGHTATFARMINGDALE
•PHY125PhysicalScienceLaboratorySpring2014,Spring2015
•PHY135CollegePhysicsIFall2013,Fall2014
•PHY136CollegePhysicsIIFall2013,Spring2014
•PHY143GeneralPhysicsI(calculus)Fall2014
•PHY144GeneralPhysicsII(calculus)Spring2015
•PHY323ElectromagneticTheorySpring2014,Spring2015
STUDENTSMENTORED/SUPERVISED
J.P.Giudicelli,pursuingB.S.inEngineeringTechnologyatFSC 2015–presentV.Lehmuller,pursuingB.S.inEngineeringTechnologyatFSC 2015–presentE.Plassmann,pursuingB.S.inEngineeringTechnologyatFSC 2015–presentW.Adrip,pursuingB.S.inEngineeringTechnologyatFSC 2015–presentR.Rosa,pursuingB.S.inEngineeringTechnologyatFSC 2014–presentJ.P.Casanova,pursuingB.S.inEngineeringTechnologyatFSC 2014–presentA.Bender,pursuingB.S.inEngineeringTechnologyatFSC 2014–presentE.R.Andrews,pursuingB.S.inEngineeringTechnologyatFSC 2014–presentJ.Gupta,undeclaredmajorstudentatFSC 2014–presentG.Kim,IBstudentatCommackHighSchool 2014–2015
A.Antonacci,pursuingB.S.inEngineeringTechnologyatFSC 2014–2015
O.Weke,nowanassociateengineeratAeroflexCorporation 2013–2014
A.Puri,nowpursuingPh.D.inphysicsatU.ofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign 2013
S.Zellman,pursuingB.S.inphysicsatStonyBrookUniversity 2012–2013
J.J.Kistner-Morris,nowaresearchanalystatBrookhavenNationalLab 2012–2013
T.Ciavatti,pursuingB.S.inphysicsatStonyBrookUniversity 2013
T.Orvis,pursuingB.E.inengineeringscienceatStonyBrookUniversity 2012–2013
J.Hassinger,nowpursuingPh.D.inbiophysicsatU.C.Berkeley 2012–2013
J.Lu,nowpursuingPh.D.inphysicsatColumbiaUniversity 2012
G.J.Smith,nowpursuingPh.D.inphysicsatOhioStateUniversity 2010–2012
V.A.Leyva,graduatedfromRiceUniversitywithB.E.inmechanicalengineering 2010
C.Marques,nowontechnicalstaffattheNSLSII,BrookhavenNationalLab 2010–2012
D.Wu,nowdoingpostdoctoralresearchinphysicsatSUSTC 2008–2009
M.Pierotti,nowaresearchassistantatLighthouseInstruments 2008
REFEREEDPUBLICATIONS
∼175citations
1.W.Miiller, J.M.Tomczak,J.W.Simonson,G.Smith,G.Kotliar, andM.C.Aronson,“Pro-
tectedFevalenceinquasi2Dα-FeSi2”J.Phys.Cond.Matt. 27(2015)175601.
2.D.E.McNally,J.W.Simonson,K.W.Post,Z.P.Yin,M.Pezzoli,G.J.Smith,V.Leyva,C.Marques,L.Debeer-Schmidt,A.I.Kolesnikov,Y.Zhao,J.W.Lynn,D.N.Basov,G.Kotliar, andM.C.Aronson,“Origin ofthechargegapinLaMnPO” Phys.Rev.B90(2014)
180403(R).
3.JonathanM. Patete,Kinkyu, Han,AmandaL. Tiano, HaiquingLiu, Myung-GeunHan,J.W.Simonson,YuanyuanLi, AlexanderC.Santulli, M.C.Aronson, Anatoly I.Frenkel,YimeiZhu,andStanlislausS.Wong,“Observationofferrelectricityandstructure-dependentmagneticbehaviorinnovelone-dimensional motifsofpure,crystallineyttrium manganeseoxides”J.Phys.Chem.C118(2014)21695-21705.
4.G.J.Smith,J.W.Simonson,T,Orvis,C.Marques,J.E.Grose,J.J.Kistner-Morris,L.Wu,K.Cho,H.Kim, M.A.Tanatar,V.O.Garlea,R.Prozorov,Y.Zhu,andM.C.Aronson,“IntrinsicnanostructureinZr2−xFe4Si16−y (x=0.816,y=6.06)”J.Phys.Cond.Matt. 26(2014)376002.
5.M.Retuerto,T.Emge,J.Hadermann,P.W.Stephens,M.R.Li, Z.P.Yin, M.Croft, A.
Ignatov,S.-J.Zhang,Z.Yuan,C.Jin,J.W.Simonson,M.C.Aronson,A.Pan,D.N.Basov,G.Kotliar, andM.Greenblatt,“Synthesisandpropertiesofcharge-orderedthallium halideperovskites,CsTl1+0.5Tl3+0.5X3 (X =F,Cl)–theoreticalprecursorsforsuperconductivity?”Chem.Mater.25(2013)4071-4079.
6.J.W.Simonson, M. E.Pezzoli,V. O.Garlea,G.J.Smith, J.E.Grose,J.C.Misuraca,G.Kotliar, andM.C.Aronson,“LocalmomentsandsuppressionofantiferromagnetismincorrelatedZr4Fe4Si7”Phys.Rev.B88(2013)081107(R).
7.JingGuo,J.W.Simonson,LilingSun,QiWu,PeiwenGao,ChaoZhang,DachunGu,GabrielKotliar, MeiganAronson,andZhongxianZhao,“Observationofantiferromagneticordercol-lapseinthepressurizedinsulatorLaMnPO” Nature:Sci.Rep.3(2013)2555.
8.J.W.Simonson,G.J.Smith,K.Post,M.Pezzoli,J.J.Kistner-Morris,D.E.McNally,J.E.
Hassinger,C.S.Nelson,G.Kotliar,D.N.Basov,andM.C.Aronson,“MagneticandstructuralphasediagramofCaMn2Sb2”Phys.Rev.B86(2012)184430.
9.J.W.Simonson,Z.P.Yin,M.Pezzoli,J.Guo,J.Liu,K.Post,A.Efimenko,N.Hollmann,Z.
Hu,H.J.Lin,C.T.Chen,C.Marques,V.Leyva,G.Smith,J.W.Lynn,L.Sun,G.Kotliar,D.N.Basov,L.H.Tjeng,andM.C.Aronson,“FromantiferromagneticinsulatortocorrelatedmetalinpressurizedanddopedLaMnPO” Proc.Nat.Acad.Sci.109(2012)E1815-E1819.
10.J.W.Simonson,K.Post,C.Marques,G.Smith,D.N.Basov,andM.C.Aronson,“GapstatesininsulatingLaMnPO1−xFx(x=0-0.3)”Phys.Rev.B84(2011)165129.
11.J.W.Simonson,D.Wu,W.Xie,T.M.Tritt,andS.J.Poon,“Introductionofresonantstatesandenhancementofthermoelectricpropertiesinhalf-Heusleralloys”Phys.Rev.B83(2011)
235211.
12.XiaoYan,GiriJoshi,WeishuLiu,YuchengLan,HuiWang,SangyeopLee,J.W.Simonson,S.J.Poon,T.M.Tritt,GangChen,andZ.F.Ren,“Enhancedthermoelectricfigureofmeritofp-typehalf-Heuslers”Nano.Lett.11(2011)556-560.
13.J.W.SimonsonandS.J.Poon,“Applying anelectroncountingruletoscreenprospectivethermoelectricalloys:thethermoelectricpropertiesofYCrB4 andEr3CrB7-typephases”J.AlloysCompd.504(2010)265-272.
14.J.W.Simonson,D.Wu,S.J.Poon,andS.A.Wolf,“SuperconductivityintransitionmetaldopedMoB4”J.Supercond.Nov.Magn.23(2010)417-422.
15.S.R.Culp,J.W.Simonson,S.J.Poon,V.Ponnambalam,J.Edwards,andT. M.Tritt,“(Zr,Hf)Co(Sb,Sn)half-Heuslerphasesashightemperature(700◦C)p-typethermoelectricmaterials”Appl.Phys.Lett.93(2008)022105.
16.J.W.SimonsonandS.J.Poon,“Electronicstructureoftransitionmetal-dopedXNiSnand
XCoSb(X =Hf,Zr)phasesinthevicinity ofthebandgap”J.Phys:Cond.Matt. 20(2008)
255220.
17.J.Simonson,S.B.Qadri,M.V.Rao,R.Fischer,J.Grun,andM.C.Ridgway,“AthermalannealingofMg-implantedGaAs”Appl.Phys.A81(2005)601-605.
NON-REFEREEDPUBLICATIONS
1.J.W.Simonson,D.E.McNally,Z.P.Yin,M.Pezzoli,J.Guo,J.Liu,K.Post,A.Efimenko,N.Hollmann,Z.Hu,H.-J.Lin,C.T.Chen,C.Marques,V.Leyva,G.Smith,J.W.Lynn,L.L.Sun,G.Kotliar, D.N.Basov,L.H.Tjeng,andM.C.Aronson,“ElectronicdelocalizationinthecorrelationgapinsulatorLaMnPO” AccomplishmentsandOpportunities,NISTSpecialPublication1143(2012)22-23.
UNPUBLISHED
1.K.W.Post,A.F.Goncharov,Z.P.Yin,J.W.Simonson,J.Guo,L.L.Sun,B.C.Chapler,D.
E.McNally,Z.Zhao,G.Kotliar, M.C.Aronson,andD.N.Basov,“PressureinducedmetallicstateinLaMnPOrevealedviainfraredspectroscopy”(2015)inprep.
2.V.K.Thorsmølle,A.Ignatov,M.E.Pezzoli,K.Haule,D.Kolchmeyer,A.Lee,J.W.Simonson,M.C.Aronson,andG.Blumberg,“Unconventionalspinandchargetransportonanantifer-romagneticbackground”(2015)inprep.
3.A.L.Tiano,C.S.Lewis,J.Han,M.-G.Han,J.M.Patete,A.C.Santulli,C.McBean,K.R.
O’Neal,J.L.Musfeldt,J.W.Simonson,M.C.Aronson,Y.Zhu,andS.S.Wong,“Mechanisticinsightsandstructure-propertycorrelationsinthemoltensaltsynthesisofmultiferroicyttriummanganeseoxidenanostructures,”(2015)submittedtoCryst.Eng.Comm..
4.W.Miiller, L.S.Wu,M.S.Kim,T.OrvisJ.W.Simonson,M.Gamza,D.E.McNally,C.S.
Nelson,G.Ehlers,A.Podlesnyak,J.S.Helton,Y.Zhao,Y.Qiu,J.R.D.Copley,J.W.Lynn,I.Zaliznyak,andM.C.Aronson,“MagneticstructureofYb2Pt2Pb: IsingmomentsontheShastry-Sutherlandlattice,” (2015)submittedtoPhys.Rev.Lett.
5.B.D.White,K.Huang,I.K.Lum,J.J.Hamlin,S.Jang,G.J.Smith,J.W.Simonson,C.S.
Nelson,M.C.Aronson,andM.B.Maple,“PhysicalpropertiesofMnAssinglecrystalsgrowninmoltenSnflux” (2015)submittedtoPhys.Rev.B.
6.D.E.McNally, J.W.Simonson,J.J.Kistner-Morris, G.J.Smith,J.E.Hassinger,A.I.
Kolesnikov,L.DeBeer-Schmidt,andM.C.Aronson,“InelasticneutronscatteringofCaMn2Sb2”(2015)submittedtoPhys.Rev.B.
7.L.Steinke,J.W.Simonson,W.-G.Yin, G.J.Smith,J.J.Kistner-Morris, S.Zellman,A.
Puri,andM.C.Aronson,“CaMn2Al10:itinerantMnmagnetismonthevergeofferromagneticorder”(2015)submittedtoPhys.Rev.B.
PRESENTATIONS
1.J.W.Simonson,L.Steinke,S.Zellman,J.Kistner-Morris,A.Puri,E.R.Andrews,andM.
C.Aronson,”ItinerantmagnetisminCaMn2Al10,”Bull. Am.Phys.Soc.60(2015)S29.10.
2.J.W.Simonson,“Quantumcriticality andCaMn2Al10”(invitedtalk)FarmingdaleStateCol-lege,DepartmentofPhysics,Farmingdale,NY,November13,2014.
3.J.W.Simonson,“Designingnewfunctionalmaterials”(invitedtalk)FarmingdaleStateCol-lege,DepartmentofPhysics,Farmingdale,NY,November12,2013.
4.J.W.Simonson,“Thesearchfordelocalizationinmanganesepnictides”(invitedtalk)Univer-sityofWestFlorida,DepartmentofPhysics,Pensacola,FL,March26,2013.
5.J.W.Simonson,M.Pezzoli,J.Guo,J.Liu,L.L.Sun,G.Kotliar, andM.C.Aronson,“Pres-surizedLaMnPO:antiferromagneticinsulatortomagneticmetal”Bull. Am. Phys.Soc.58(2013)G35.7.
6.J.W.Simonson,“Thesearchfornewsuperconductors: onecrystalatatime” (invitedtalk)DuquesneUniversity,DepartmentofPhysics,Pittsburgh,PA,March14,2013.
7.J.W.Simonson,“Searchfordelocalizationinthemanganesepnictides”(invitedtalk)Centro
At´omicoBariloche,Instituto Balseiro,S.C.deBariloche,Argentina,February23,2013.
8.J.W.Simonson,G.Smith,andM.C.Aronson,“Highspin-lowspintransitionininsulating
CaMn2Sb2”Bull. Am.Phys.Soc.57(2012)B21.6.
9.J.W.Simonson,K.Post,G.Smith,D.N.Basov,andM.C.Aronson,“High-spin/low-spintransitioninCaMn2Sb2”(postersession)2011SuperconductivityProgramReviewandUSAF-ChinaWorkshop,SantaBarbara,CA,December12-14,2011.
10.J.W.SimonsonandM.C.Aronson,“Gapphysicsofthedopedsemiconductor(Ca,F):LaMnPO”
Bull. Am.Phys.Soc.56(2011)D23.5.
11.J.W.Simonson“Electronicstructurepropertiesandabondingmodelofthermoelectrichalf-Heuslerandboridephases”(invitedtalk)BrookhavenNationalLaboratory,CondensedMatterPhysicsandMaterialsScienceDepartment,Upton,NY,December11,2009.
12.J.W.Simonson,S.R.Culp,S.J.Poon,V.Ponnambalam,J.Edwards,andT.Tritt,“Elec-tronicstructureandhigh-temperaturepropertiesofdopedHf0.5Zr0.5CoSbphases”Bull. Am.Phys.Soc.54(2009)D28.6.
13.J.W.Simonson,“Investigation ofhightemperaturethermoelectricmaterials”(invited talk)UniversityofVirginia,DepartmentofPhysics,Charlottesville,VA,March27,2008.