Curriculum Vitae
Employment
- Rice University (2025 - Present)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Advised by Prof. Pengcheng Dai
Education
- University of California, Santa Barbara (2019 - 2025)
- University of California, Los Angeles (2014 - 2018)
- B.S. Chemical Engineering
Publications
- J. R. Chamorro, S. J. Gomez Alvarado, D. Rout, S. Schwarz, A. Scheie, G. Pokharel, A. Kolesnikov, L. Keller, R. Seshadri, and S. D. Wilson, Hidden frustration in the triangular-lattice antiferromagnet NdCd\(_3\)P\(_3\). (2025) Submitted.
- S. J. Gomez Alvarado, B. R. Ortiz, S. Bear, B. A. Gonzalez, A. N. Capa Salinas, A. Berlie, M. J. Graf, and S. D. Wilson, Magnetic dilution in the triangular lattice antiferromagnet NaYb\(_{1-x}\)Lu\(_x\)O\(_2\). (2025) Submitted. [arXiv: 2506.22613]
- G. Pokharel, C. Zhang, E. Redekop, B. R. Ortiz, A. N. Capa Salinas, S. Schwarz, S. J. Gomez Alvarado, S. Sarker, A. F. Young, and S. D. Wilson, Evolution of charge correlations in the hole-doped kagome superconductor CsV\(_{3-x}\)Ti\(_x\)Sb\(_5\). (2025) Submitted. [arXiv: 2506.13941]
- S. J. Gomez Alvarado, J. R. Chamorro, D. Rout, J. Hielscher, S. Schwarz, C. Benyacko, M. B. Stone, V. Ovidiu Garlea, A. R. Jackson, G. Pokharel, R. Gomez, B. R. Ortiz, S. Sarker, L. Kautzsch, L. C. Gallington, R. Seshadri, and S. D. Wilson, Interleaved bond frustration in triangular lattice \(Ln\)Cd\(_3\)P\(_3\). (2025) Submitted. [arXiv: 2501.04203]
- S. J. Gomez Alvarado, Y. Pang, P. A. Barrera, D. Rout, C. Robison, Z. Porter, H. Z. Porter, E. A. Lawrence, E. N. Bassey, and S. D. Wilson, High-pressure floating zone crystal growth of Sr\(_2\)IrO\(_4\). Phys. Rev. Mater. 9 (2025) 053402. [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.9.053402][arXiv: 2502.11241]
- M. E. Turiansky, S. Mu, L. Razinkovas, K. Parto, S. D. Patel, S. Doan, G. Pokharel, S. J. Gomez Alvarado, S. D. Wilson, G. Moody, and C. G. Van de Walle, Characterization of Chromium Impurities in \(\beta\)-Ga\(_2\)O\(_3\). J. Appl. Phys. 137 (2025) 104401. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0255859][arXiv: 2501.00561]
- B. R. Ortiz, W. R. Meier, G. Pokharel, J. Chamorro, F. Yang, S. Mozaffari, A. Thaler, S. J. Gomez Alvarado, H. Zhang, D. S. Parker, G. D. Samolyuk, J. A. M. Paddison, J. Yan, F. Ye, S. Sarker, S. D. Wilson, H. Miao, D. Mandrus, and M. A. McGuire, Stability frontiers in the \(AM_6X_6\) kagome metals; The \(Ln\)Nb\(_6\)Sn\(_6\) (\(Ln\):Ce-Lu,Y) family and density-wave transition in LuNb\(_6\)Sn\(_6\). J. Am. Chem. Soc. 147 (2025) 5279-5292. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c16347][arXiv: 2411.10635]
- S. J. Gomez Alvarado, G. Pokharel, B. R. Ortiz, J. A. M. Paddison, S. Sarker, J. P. C. Ruff, and S. D. Wilson, Frustrated Ising charge correlations in the kagome metal ScV\(_6\)Sn\(_6\). Phys. Rev. B 110 (2024) L140304. [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.L140304][arXiv: 2407.12099]
- B. R. Ortiz, P. M. Sarte, G. Pokharel, M. J. Knudtson, S. J. Gomez Alvarado, A. F. May, S. Calder, L. Mangin-Thro, A. R. Wildes, H. Zhou, G. Sala, C. R. Wiebe, S. D. Wilson, J. A. M. Paddison, and A. A. Aczel, Revisiting spin ice physics in the ferromagnetic Ising pyrochlore Pr\(_2\)Sn\(_2\)O\(_7\). Phys. Rev. B 109 (2024) 134420. [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.134420][arXiv: 2310.16180]
- S. J. Gomez Alvarado, E. Zoghlin, A. Jackson, L. Kautzsch, J. Plumb, M. Aling, A. N. Capa Salinas, G. Pokharel, Y. Pang, R. M. Gomez, S. Daly, and S. D. Wilson, Advances in high-pressure laser floating zone growth: The Laser Optical Kristallmacher II (LOKII). Rev. Sci. Instrum. 95 (2024) 033903. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0186528][arXiv: 2311.03671]
- G. Pokharel, B. R. Ortiz, L. Kautzsch, S. J. Gomez Alvarado, K. Mallayya, G. Wu, E.-A. Kim, J. P. C. Ruff, S. Sarker, and S. D. Wilson, Frustrated charge order and cooperative distortions in ScV\(_6\)Sn\(_6\). Phys. Rev. Mater. 7 (2023) 104201. [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.104201][arXiv: 2307.11843]
- B. R. Ortiz, G. Pokharel, M. Gundayao, H. Li, F. Kaboudvand, L. Kautzsch, S. Sarker, J. P. C. Ruff, T. Hogan, S. J. Gomez Alvarado, P. M. Sarte, G. Wu, T. Braden, R. Seshadri, E. S. Toberer, I. Zeljkovic, and S. D. Wilson, YbV\(_3\)Sb\(_4\) and EuV\(_3\)Sb\(_4\) vanadium-based kagome metals with Yb\(^{2+}\) and Eu\(^{2+}\) zigzag chains. Phys. Rev. Mater. 7 (2023) 064201. [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.064201][arXiv: 2302.12354]
- [Editor’s Suggestion] S. J. Gomez, P. M. Sarte, M. Zelensky, A. M. Hallas, B. A. Gonzalez, K. H. Hong, E. J. Pace, S. Calder, M. B. Stone, Y. Su, E. Feng, M. D. Le, C. Stock, J. P. Attfield, S. D. Wilson, C. R. Wiebe, and A. A. Aczel, Absence of moment fragmentation in the mixed B-site pyrochlore Nd\(_2\)GaSbO\(_7\). Phys. Rev. B 103 (2021) 214419. [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.214419][arXiv: 2104.00791]
- S. J. Gomez, D. Cheikh, T. Vo, P. Von Allmen, K. Lee, M. Wood, G.J. Snyder, B. S. Dunn, J.-P. Fleurial, and S. K. Bux, Synthesis and Characterization of Vacancy-Doped Neodymium Telluride for Thermoelectric Applications, Chem. Mater. 31 (2019) 4460-4468. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b00964][PubMed Central]
