About
My name is Dacen Waters, I am a postdoc in Prof. Matt Yankowitz’s lab at the University of Washington and an ORISE Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellow. I received my Ph.D. from the Physics Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2020, advised by Profs. Randy Feenstra and Ben Hunt.
My current research efforts focus on novel properties of moiré physics in twisted graphene heterostructures such as topology, superconductivity, magnetism, and ferroelectricity. I use a variety of tools for my research, with my primary expertise being magnetotransport and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). For more about my past and ongoing projects, check out my research page and explore the rest of the site to learn more.
Latest News
Our paper on mixed-dimensional moiré systems was published in Nature! See an explainer in UW News. – July 19, 2023