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My name is Steven (he/him/his), I’m from Los Angeles, CA and now live in Goleta, CA.

My research focuses on understanding and controlling disorder, both intrinsic (e.g., from frustration effects) and extrinsic (e.g., from defects), in quantum materials. A key goal in my work is to shed light on how disorder in the electronic degrees of freedom (i.e., spin, charge, orbital, lattice) plays a role in realizing (or competing with) interesting quantum ground states in frustrated magnets, unconventional superconductors, and other strongly correlated electron materials. I study these effects using X-ray and neutron scattering techniques paired with bulk transport and thermodynamic measurements. I also develop cutting-edge synthesis methods, including high-pressure bulk crystal growth techniques capable of realizing large, high-quality crystals of volatile and metastable phases suitable for neutron scattering investigations.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Materials in 2024 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I worked in the Wilson Group. Prior to arriving at UCSB, I completed my B.S. in Chemical Engineering at UCLA, where I concurrently interned for several years in the Advanced Thermoelectric Materials Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). During that time, I also interned briefly in the alkylation plant at the Chevron El Segundo Refinery and in the Kauzlarich Lab at UC Davis. After graduating, I worked for a few months in the Materials Engineering, Test, & Evaluation Group at JPL and then interned briefly in the Thin Film Material Science and Processing Group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Visitors to this website who would like to get in contact may do so by email:

stevenjgomez [at] ucsb.edu

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