Life Bio


Personal Information

  • Full Name: Jose Amador Mawyin Zapatier
  • Date of Birth: June 13, 1978. (Guayaquil, Ecuador)
  • Email: jmawyin @ ic . sunysb . edu

Education

  • 2005-Present Graduate Student at the Materials Science Department of Stony Brook
  • 2001-2003 State University of New York at Stony Brook. Graduated with B.S. in Physics with a Minor in Optics.
  • 1997-2000 City University of New York at Queens.
  • 1996-1997 Martin Van Buren High School.
  • 1992-1995 Liceo Naval de Guayaquil, Fisico-Matematico (Guayaquil-Ecuador).
  • 1986-1992 Instituto Particular Abdon Calderon (Guayaquil-Ecuador).

Graduate Work

Apart from my duties as a TA, I work as a research assistant in the Surface Analysis and Corrosion Science Lab. My work under this group involves:

  • Under Prof. Charles Fortmann: Study of amorphous-silicon devices for use in photonics and phononics applications.
  • Under Prof. Gary Halada: Characterization of viscoelastic materials used in vibration isolation stages.
  • Under Prof. Clive Clayton: Characterization of epoxy based materials under different environmental conditions.

Undergraduate Work

From Fall 2000 to Spring 2003 worked at the Laser Teaching Center under the guidance of Dr. John Noe and Prof. Harold Metcalf. Duties ranged from undergraduate researcher, laboratory assistant and summer mentor.

  • Spring 2004 – Study of hydrogen doped amorphous silicon thin films and its possible applications in communications technology and optical computing.
  • Winter 2003 – Study of beam flattening techniques for usage in Bichromatic Forces experiment. CAD design of two dimensional laser cooling chamber for usage in Rydberg Atom Optics experiment.
  • Summer 2003 – Research in Laser Teaching Center, SUNY at Stony Brook. Sponsored by an AGEP fellowship. Worked on improving a Matlab simulation of population transfer process under rapid adiabatic passage conditions. Also mentored High School Simon's students on their summer projects and introduced them to different topics in Optics and Lasers.
  • Winter 2002 – Independent study supported by NSF. Studied different techniques for frequency locking on broad area diode lasers.
  • Summer 2002 – Research in Laser Teaching Center, SUNY at Stony Brook. Sponsored by an AGEP fellowship and a ONR and NSF grant. Researched alternatives for the generation on 389nm laser light by using non-linear processes such as frequency conversion, frequency doubling and stimulated Raman scattering.
  • Summer 2001 – Research in Laser Teaching Center, SUNY at Stony Brook. Sponsored by an AGEP fellowship. Researched multiple aspects of CCD sensors with the emphasis of how it can be used for data gathering in an Optics Lab.

Public Presentations

  • WAESO/MGE@MSA Student Research Conference 2005 at Tempe, Arizona. Poster - "Novel Optical Devices Based in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon (a-Si:H) planar waveguides: Construction, testing and applications". G.P. Halada, Samrat Chawda, J. Mawyin, R.J. Tonucci, A.H. Mahan, C.M. Fortmann.
  • MRS Spring Conference 2005 at San Francisco, California. Poster - "Advances in Amorphous Silicon Integrated Photonics Science and Technology". G.P. Halada, Samrat Chawda, J. Mawyin, R.J. Tonucci, A.H. Mahan, C.M. Fortmann.
  • Stony Brook 2003 Undergraduate Achievement Day. Poster - "Simulation of Optical Bloch Equations". Jose Mawyin, John Noe, Harold Metcalf, Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
  • OSA 2002 Conference at Orlando, Florida. Talk - “Sum Frequency Generation of Near Ultraviolet Light". Jose Mawyin, John Noe, Harold Metcalf, Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
  • Physics Senior Lab Report. Talk - "Mossbauer Spectroscopy of Fe57 nucleus". Jose Mawyin and Fouad Nassradine, Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
  • OSA 2001 Conference at Long Beach, California. Talk -"Macroscopic Observation of Quantum Mechanical Effects: A study on the formation of interference fringes with polarized light". Jose Mawyin, Mirna Lerotic, John Noe, Harold Metcalf, Laser Teaching Center, Department of Physics and Astromy, State University at Stony Brook.
  • Stony Brook 2001 Undergraduate Achievement Day. Poster - "Macroscopic Visualization of Quantum Mechanical Effects". Winner of Brookhaven Science Associates Prize in Physical Sciences and Mathematics.

Fields of Interest

  • Materials Science: Photonic and Phononic materials, IR and X-ray spectroscopy and novel energy sources.
  • Physics: Atom optics, non-linear optics and materials, meta-stable, dark states and high Rydberg states.

Technical skills

  • Experience doing Finite Element Modeling using FemLab/COMSOL Multiphysics.
  • Experience programming on IDL, Maple, Mathematica and MatLab packages.
  • Experience modeling Gaussian beam propagation on Zemax and Oslo.
  • Experience doing CAD design of monolithic equipment using SolidWorks.
  • Knowledge of FORTRAN 95, JAVA and HTML programming.
  • Experience on computer hardware trouble-shooting and components integration.
  • User of Linux, MacOS, DOS and Win9x systems.

Language skills

  • Spanish (native language): Technical, colloquial, writing and reading proficiency.
  • English: Technical, colloquial, writing and reading proficiency.