John Thomas

Senior Scientific Engineering Associate, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (2024-present)

Group Lead, Dartmouth College & Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (2023-2024)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (2020-2023)

Software Developer, Veritomyx, Inc. (2018-2020)

Process Engineer, Intel Corporation (2015-2018)

Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles (2015)

Fabrication of Scientific Apparatus

Technique & Software Development

Experimental Design

K. E. White, Y. Chu, G. Gani, S. Ippolito, K. Barr, J. C. Thomas, A. Weber-Bargioni, K. Lau, Y. Gogotsi, P. S. Weiss. “Atomic-scale investigations of Ti₃C₂T_x MXene surfaces.” Matter 7, 2609 (2024)

J. C. Thomas, W. Chen, Y. Xiong, B. Barker, J. Zhou, W. Chen, A. Rossi, N. Kelly, Z. Yu, D. Zhou, S. Kumari, E. Barnard, J. Robinson, M. Terrones, A. Schwartzberg, D. F. Ogletree, E. Rotenberg, M. M. Noack, S. Griffin, A. Raja, D. Strubbe, G.-M. Rignanese, A. Weber-Bargioni, G. Hautier. “A substitutional quantum defect in WS₂ discovered by high-throughput computational screening and fabricated by site-selective STM manipulation.” Nature Communications 15, 3556 (2024)

A. Rossi, R. Dettori, C. Johnson, J. Balgley, J. C. Thomas, L. Francaviglia, A. Schmid, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. Cothrine, D. G. Mandrus, C. Jozwiak, A. Bostwik, E. Henriksen, A. Weber-Bargioni, and E. Rotenberg.. “Electronic Structure of RuCl₃ – Graphene heterostructure: stable ferromagnetic interaction.” Nano Letters 23, 8000 (2023)

J. Zhou, J. C. Thomas, E. Barré, E. Barnard, A. Raja, S. Cabrini, K. Munechika, A. Schwartzberg, A. Weber-Bargioni. “Near-Field Coupling with a Nanoimprinted Probe for Dark Exciton Nanoimaging in Monolayer WSe₂.” Nano Letters 23, 4901 (2023)

J. C. Thomas, A. Rossi, D. Smalley, L. Francaviglia, Z. Yu, T. Zhang, S. Kumari, J. A. Robinson, M. Terrones, M. Ishigami, E. Rotenberg, E. S. Barnard, A. Raja, E. Wong, D. F. Ogletree, M. M. Noack, A. Weber-Bargioni. “Autonomous Scanning Probe Microscopy Investigations over WS₂ and Au{111}.” npj Computational Materials 8, 99 (2022)