Education

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • August, 2009
    - Thesis: 3D Imaging of Buried Quantum Dots using COBRA
    
  • Masters of Science Electrical Engineering
  • May 2007
    
• Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA
  • Degree: Bachelors of Science, Physics
    - Physics GPA: 4.0 Overall GPA: 3.96
    - Date of Graduation: July 2004
    - Undergraduate Thesis: The High Voltage Analysis of Monitored Drift Tube
    - Performance for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer, May 2004

Awards

• PCSI Young Scientist Award, January 2009
• Fall 2007 Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellowship
• 2007 Rackham Conference Travel Grant, April 2007
• University of Michigan Applied Physics Graduate Fellowship
• Student Grand Marshall, Southern University, July 2004
• Who is Who in American Colleges and Universities, 2003-2004
• 1st Place, Physics Research Presentation, Beta Kappa Xi, 2004
• 2003 Science and Engineering Academic Excellence Scholarship
• National Collegiate Mathematics Award, 2001-2002
• All American Collegiate Award, 2001-2002
• 2002-2003 College of Sciences Excellence Award
• 2001/2002 Honors College and Junior Division Highest GPA Award
• 2001/2002 Chemistry Excellence Award

Publications

• D. P. Kumah, S. Shusterman, Yossi Paltiel, Y. Yacoby and R. Clarke, Atomic-scale mapping of quantum dots formed by droplet epitaxy. Nature Nano. PUBLISHED ONLINE: 27 SEPTEMBER 2009

• D. P. Kumah, A. Riposan, C. N. Cionca, N. S. Husseini, R. Clarke, J. Y. Lee, J. M. Millunchick, Y. Yacoby, C. M. Schlepütz, M. Björck, and P. R. Willmott . Resonant coherent Bragg rod analysis of strained epitaxial heterostructure. Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 081910 (2008).

• C. N. Cionca, A. Riposan, D. P. Kumah, N. S. Husseini, D. A. Walko, Y. Yacoby, J. M. Millunchick, and R. Clarke. Strain and composition mapping of epitaxial nanostructures.Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 151914 (2008)
• R. Herger, P. R. Willmott, C. M. Schlepütz, M. Björck, S. A. Pauli, D. Martoccia, B. D. Patterson, D. Kumah, R. Clarke, Y. Yacoby, and M. Döbeli. Structure determination of monolayer-by-monolayer grown La1-xSrxMnO3 thin films and the onset of magnetoresistance. PHYSICAL REVIEW B 77, 085401( Febuary 1 2008)
• Liu Liu, Naji S. Husseini, Christopher J. Torbet, Divine P. Kumah, Roy Clarke, Tresa M. Pollock, and J. Wayne Jones. In Situ Imaging of High Cycle Fatigue Crack Growth in Single Crystal Nickel-Base Superalloys by Synchrotron X-Radiation. J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 130, 021008 (2008)
• P. R. Willmott, S. A. Pauli, R. Herger, C. M. Schlepütz, D. Martoccia, B. D. Patterson, B. Delley, R. Clarke, D. Kumah, C. Cionca, and Y. Yacoby. Structural Basis for the Conducting Interface between LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 . Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155502 (October 9 2007)
• J. B. González-Díaz, A. García-Martín, G. Armelles, J. M. García-Martín, C. Clavero, A. Cebollada, R. A. Lukaszew, J. R. Skuza, D. P. Kumah, and R. Clarke. Surface-magnetoplasmon nonreciprocity effects in noble-metal/ferromagnetic heterostructures. Phys. Rev. B 76, 153402 (5 October 2007)
• D P Kumah, A Cebollada, C Clavero, J-M Garcia-Martin, J Skuza, R A Lukaszew and R Clarke. Optimizing the planar structure of (111) Au/Co/Au trilayers. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 40 (April 2007) 2699–2704
• D. Boschetto, G. Mourou, A. Rousse, A. Mordovanakis, Bixue Hou, J. Nees, D. Kumah, R. Clarke. Spatial coherence properties of a compact and ultrafast laser-produced plasma keV x-ray source. Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 011106 (Jan. 2007)
  

Research Experience

• Center for Research in Surface Phenomena, Yale University, New Haven
  August 2009– Present, Postdoctoral Fellow
  - Growth and characterization of epitaxial complex-oxide systems.
  
• Roy Clarke Group, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  July 2005 –July 2009, Graduate Research Assistant
  - Coherent Bragg Rod Imaging of buried Quantum Dot Structures
  - X-ray studies of Ni-based super-alloys
  - Synchrotron X-ray Studies of Ferroelectric Domains and Thin Film Interfaces
  - Synchrotron x-ray experiments at the Advanced Photon Source and the Swiss Light Source

• European Particle Physics Research Council, Geneva
  8th June 2004 – 28th July 2004
  -Investigating the effects of sense wire sags on the resolution of the Muon Detector System for ATLAS and the Large Hadron Collider.
  
• European Particle Physics Research Council, Geneva
  10th June 2003 – 17th August 2003
  -Investigating a Cosmic Ray Muon procedure for analyzing components of the Muon Detector System for ATLAS and the Large Hadron Collider.
  
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden CO
  1st June 2002 – 9th August 2002
  -Designing a program using Visual Basic to simulate the Atomic Force Microscope. Program implemented by the Measurement and Characterization Department at NREL to identify defects in AFM images and increase the accuracy of these images.
  
• Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA
  January- May, 2002
  -Involved in synthesizing high efficiency electrodes for Lithium- ion cells.
  
• Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA
  January- May, 2004
  - BZW ab-initio calculations of Band structures in Al2O3

Computer Skills

• Operating Systems: Windows XP, 9x, 2000, NT, Linux, Unix
• Languages: C++, C, Fortran, ROOT, MATLAB, MATHEMATICA, IDL, PHP, HTML, JAVA, Active Server Pages, VB.Net, Perl

Conference Participation & Invited Talks

• Yale University Center for Research in Surface Phenomena Seminar, New Haven, CT, Feb, 2009
  • Presentation: A new x-ray phase retrieval method for imaging buried interfaces
• Calvin College Department of Physics Seminar, Grand Rapids, MI, Dec, 2007
  • Presentation: Imaging Interfaces with X-rays
• Swiss Light Source Seminar, Villigen, Switzerland, July 2007
  • Presentation: COBRA – A Direct Method for Phase Retrieval
• Southern University College of Sciences Symposium, Baton Rouge, LA, May 2007
  • Presentation: Unlocking Nature’s Secrets with X-ray
• 2009 Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces, Santa Barbara, CA
  • Presentation: A new x-ray method to image self-assembled quantum dot structures.
• 2008 American Physics Society March Meeting, New Orleans LA
  • Presentation: Anomalous COBRA studies of InGaAs/GaAs.
• 2007 American Physics Society March Meeting, Denver CO
  - Presentation: Structure and morphology of (111) tex-tured Au/Co/Au trilayers grown on glass by MBE.
• 2007 Annual SCOR Conference, Ann Arbor MI
  - Presentation: Synchrotron Studies of Single Crystal Nickel-based Superalloys
• 2004 Annual Louisiana Academy of Sciences Conference, Lake Charles LA
  - High Voltage Analysis of Monitored Drift Tubes for ATLAS
• 2004 National Conference of Black Physics Students, Washington DC
  - Presentation: Cosmic Ray Muon Calibration for ATLAS
• 2003 Science and Engineering Alliance Conference, Washington DC
  - Presentation: A High-Voltage Analysis Tool for Analysing Monitored Drift Tubes for ATLAS
• 2003 Emerge Workshop, Atlanta GA
  - Presentation: GradPortal: Bridging Graduate Resources
  Co-Presented with Dr. Robert Ford, Director LS-LAMP
• 2002 Dirac Centenary Conference, Baylor University, Waco TX
  - Presentation: The Effect of Tip Design on Imaging in the Atomic Force Microscope
• 2002 Renewable Energy Alliance Program, Washington DC
  - Presentation: Simulating Contact Mode in the Atomic Force Microscope
• 2002 Honors College State Conference, Lafayette, LA
  - Presentation: Quantum Web: A Model for Online Learning

Affiliations

• American Physics Society
• National Society of Black Physics Students
• Society of Physics Students
• National Honors Society
• Timbuktu Academy
• Beta Kappa Chi

Offices

• 2003-2004 Vice President, Southern University Society of Physics Students

Interests

• Running, Chess, Web Design, Soccer, Tennis, Reading, Tutoring