We are so excited to welcome several new group members starting April and May 2021! Nadia Berndt joins us as an undergraduate researcher working on time-resolved spectroscopy on encapsulated monolayer TMDC nano discs. Finn Kohrell (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany) is a visiting student researcher funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)  conducting research for his Master thesis on non-equilibrium dynamics in the superconducting state of 2D TMDCs at low temperatures for the next year. Sophia Fang (MIT) joins us for the summer as NSF-REU student and will work on attosecond pulse generation and dynamics. William Alexander is a freshman in Chemistry and Entrepreneurship and joins us as undergraduate researcher exploring new ways for applying virtual reality in lab instruction and laser lab operation. Last but not least, Douglas Heine (Michigan State University) joins us this summer as NSF-REU student working on simulating strong-field excitations in two-dimensional semiconductors.