I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, SC. My research interest is devoted to the study of new and novel materials using ultrasonic (such as Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy (RUS) and Pulse-Echo (PE)), magnetic (dHvA), and transport measurement techniques.
I graduated from the University of Asmara with B. Sc. degree in physics with an honor of great distinction in 1985 and was immediately hired by the Department of Physics at the University of Asmara as an assistant graduate, assisting undergraduate physics laboratories and teaching freshman physics courses. I earned M. Sc. degree from Addis Ababa University (AAU) in 1988 specializing on the theory of superconductivity and the study of electron pairing mechanisms. I then went back to the University of Asmara and worked there as a Lecturer for about four years and joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University (LSU) in the spring of 1993. I did my Ph. D. work on the study of heavy fermion materials using the de-Haas van Alphen (dHvA) effect at very low temperatures and high magnetic fields under the direction of Prof. R. Goodrich of LSU and graduated with a Ph. D. in May of 2000. During the last three years, I worked as a post doctoral research associate and as a Research Scientist at the National Center for Physical Acoustics (NCPA) at The University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS working on Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy (RUS) at low temperatures and high magnetic fields.