Steven (he/him), is from Los Angeles, CA and obtained his Ph.D. in Materials in 2025 from the University of California, Santa Barbara under Prof. Stephen Wilson. Prior to arriving at UCSB, he completed his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at UCLA, where he concurrently interned in the Advanced Thermoelectric Materials Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He is interested in using X-ray and neutron scattering techniques to interrogate novel electronic and magnetic phase behaviors in quantum materials, as well as developing cutting edge synthesis tools for generating high quality single crystals.