| Years | Name | Position | Capstone |
| 2018-2024 | Jason Scheeler | PhD | Spatially and Temporally Resolved Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Semiconductors |
| 2018-2023 | Chris Roy | PhD | Heterostructures and Hyperspectral Microscopy of Lead Halide Perovskite Semiconductors |
| 2017-2023 | Emily Kaufman | PhD | Progress towards the use of TSF and DOVE spectroscopy to probe coupling relationships in complex molecules |
| 2016-2022 | Kyle Sunden | PhD | yaq: Yet Another Acquisition. A modular approach to spectroscopy software and instrumentation |
| 2016-2021 | Natalia Spitha | PhD | Time-resolved photoluminescence of layered semiconductors |
| 2015-2020 | Darien Morrow | PhD | Development of multidimensional spectroscopies to investigate transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors |
| 2012-2018 | Nathan Neff-Mallon | ||
| 2013-2018 | Jonathan Handali | PhD | 3D Triply Resonant Sum Frequency Spectroscopy with applications towards biological molecules |
| 2012-2017 | Kyle Czech | ABD | |
| 2011-2018 | Blaise Thompson | PhD | Development of Frequency Domain Multidimensional Spectroscopy with Applications in Semiconductor Photophysics |
| 2011-2017 | Eric Hagee | ||
| 2007-2017 | Schuyler Kain | PhD | Transition of Frequency-Domain Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopic Methods to the Femtosecond Time Regime with Applications to Nanoscale Semiconductors |
| 2011-2016 | Matt Rowley | PhD | Spectroscopic studies on the photophysics of semiconductor materials for solar energy collection |
| 2010-2016 | Paul Hebert | PhD | Femtosecond Multidimensional Electronic and Raman Spectroscopy towards the Study of Mn Complexes and the Oxygen Evolving Complex: Developing Understanding of Femtosecond Light Generation and Applying Femtosecond Multidimensional Electronic and Raman Spectroscopies to Model Systems |
| 2010-2014 | Erin Boyle | PhD | New Mixed Vibrational-Electronic Methods in Fully Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy: Progress Toward Metal Active Site Characterization |
| 2003-2014 | Andrei Pakoulev | Staff | |
| 2012 | Stephen B. Block | PhD | Picosecond and Femtosecond Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy of Colloidal PbSe Quantum Dot Structure and Dynamics |
| 2010 | Ross Lovely | MA | EPR of OEC in PSII |
| 2009-2011 | Igor Stiopkin | Postdoctoral | Femtosecond Multidimensional Spectroscopy |
| 2011 | Lena A. Yurs | PhD | Multiresonant Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy of Quantum Confined Nanomaterials" |
| 2009 | Nathan A. Mathew | PhD | Mixed Frequency/Time Domain Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy |
| 2009 | Kate Kornau | PhD | Triply Vibrationally Enhanced Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy |
| 2008 | Mark Rickard | PhD | Fundamental Studies of Triply Vibrationally Enhanced Four Wave Mixing Spectroscopy |
| 2003-2005 | Danling Wang | Postdoctoral | Electronically Resonant Doubly Vibrationally Enhanced Four Wave Mixing |
| 2004 | Kent Meyer* | PhD |
Frequency-Scanned Ultrafast Spectroscopic Techniques Applied to Infrared Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy *Kent returned to the Wright Group as a Staff Scientist in 2020! |
| 2003 | John D. Bak | PhD | Fluorescence and Atomic Defect Properties of Rare Earth Doped Barium Titanate |
| 2003 | Daniel Besemann | PhD | Inhomogeneous Broadening, Dephasing, and Interference Effects in Multidimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy |
| 2003 | Angela Peters | MA | Electronically Resonant 2D DOVE Spectroscopy |
| 2001-2002 | Alastair Wark |
Postdoctoral |
Surface Selective Nonlinear Spectroscopy |
| 2001 | Nicholas J. Condon | PhD | Doubly Vibrationally Enhanced Four Wave Mixing Spectroscopy of Acetonitrile and Crotononitrile |
| 2001 | Amy Hofstra | MA | Biological Applications of 2D DOVE Spectroscopy |
| 1997-2000 | Keith Murdoch | Postdoctoral | Determination of the Structure of Water Using Multiresonant Four-Wave Mixing |
| 1997-1999 | Wei Zhao | Postdoctoral | New Nonlinear Optical Materials |
| 1998 | David Thompson | PhD | Measuring and Modeling the Contribution of the Complex Refractive Index to Infrared Four Wave Mixing Lineshapes in Mixtures of Fully Deuterated Benzene and 1,8 Nonadiyne |
| 1998 | Robert Lascola | PhD | Nonlinear Optical Properties of Neutral and Anionic Fullerenes |
| 1997 | Ding Xiaoya | PhD | Laser Spectroscopic Studies of Fullerenes, Fullerene Derivatives, and Erbium Endohedral Metallofullerenes |
| 1996 | Mitchell LaBuda | PhD | Direct Measurement of a Vibrational Hyperpolarizability |
| 1995 | Lawrence R. Olsen | PhD | The Defect Chemistry and Diffusion of Fluoride Interstitials in Eu3+ Doped CaF2 Studied with Site Selective Spectroscopy and High Pressure Techniques |
| 1994 | Laurel J. Knott | PhD | Electronic Defect Compensation in Perovskites |
| 1994 | James P. Hamilton | PhD | Vibrationally Enhanced Infrared Four Wave Mixing Spectroscopy |
| 1994 | Andrew O. Wright | PhD | Solid State Defect Dynamics Measured with Site Selective Spectroscopy Employing a Diamond Anvil Cell |
| 1993 | Joseph E. Ivanecky | PhD | Higher Order Effects in Nonlinear Raman Scattering |
| 1992 | Peter C. Chen | PhD | Infrared Four Wave Mixing: A New Spectroscopic Technique Used to Probe the Interaction Between Vibrational Levels in Chlorobenzene |
| 1990 | Bradford B. Price | PhD | Fluorescence Line Narrowing and Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Octaethylporphine |
| 1994-1995 | Lei Geng | Postdoctoral | Optical Properties of Endohedral Fullerenes |
| 1991-1993 | Arne Zilian | Postdoctoral | Infrared Four Wave Mixing |
| 1990-1991 | Andries Meijerink | Postdoctoral | Defect Dynamics in PbF2 |
| 1990 | Gregory B. Hurst | PhD | Line Narrowed, Fully Resonant Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Perylene in PMMA |
| 1989 | Kathleen M. Cirillo-Penn | PhD | Site Selective Methods for Kinetic Measurements of Defect Reequilibration in Insulators |
| 1987-1989 | Nigel J. Cockroft | Postdoctoral | Solid State Chemistry of Perovskites |
| 1988 | Roger J. Carlson | PhD | Three-Photon Nonlinear Spectroscopy |
| 1988 | Brian M. Tissue | PhD | Energy Transfer Within Isolated Rare Earth Clusters |
| 1987 | Bruce K. Winker | PhD | High Resolution Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Gas Phase Atoms, Ions, and Molecules |
| 1987 | Michael T. Riebe | PhD | Line Narrowing in the Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Pentacene in Benzoic Acid |
| 1986 | Royal J. Haskell | PhD | Determination of 4– and 5–D Transition Metals Via Laser Excitation of Precipitates |
| 1986 | Albert J. Ramponi | PhD | Studies of the Aggregation of Divalent Cations Doped in Alkali Halides Using Site-Selective Laser Spectroscopy |
| 1986 | Kate Noon | MA | An Investigation of the Defect Site Distribution in MgO:Cr3+ Using Site Selective Spectroscopy |
| 1985 | John R. Wietfeldt | PhD | Laser Spectroscopy of Defect Chemistry in Rare Earth Doped SrCl2 and Mechanism of Energy Transfer Between Ions in SrF2:Er3+ |
| 1984 | Jack K. Steehler | PhD | Multiresonant Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy of Pentacene in p-Terphenyl |
| 1984 | Dinh C. Nguyen | PhD | Four Wave Mixing Spectroscopy of Organic Systems |
| 1984 | Mark A. Valentini | PhD | High Resolution Laser Spectroscopy of Lanthanide Ions in Biochemical Systems |
| 1983 | Sun-Il Mho | PhD | Laser Spectroscopy of Defect Chemistry in Conducting Materials |
| 1981-1983 | Dale Lutz | Postdoctoral | Site Distributions in Molecular Crystals |
| 1981 | Steven H. Lee | PhD | New Methods for Laser Analysis of Organic Compounds |
| 1981 | Laura C. Porter | PhD | Analytical Applications of Selectively Excited Lanthanide Ion Luminescence in Various Inorganic Powders |
| 1980 | Murray V. Johnston | PhD | Fluorescent Probes in the Solid State and Their Application in Rare Earth Doped Fluorite Structure Crystals |
| 1980 | David S. Moore | PhD | Laser Spectroscopic and EPR Studies of Defect Equilibria in Rare Earth Doped Fluorite Structure Crystals |
| 1980 | Mark B. Seelbinder | PhD | Laser Spectroscopy of Defect Clusters in Doped Calcium Fluoride |
| 1977-1979 | James Akse | Postdoctoral | Selective Excitation of Probe Ion Luminescence |
| 1978 | Frederick J. Gustafson | PhD | Determination of the Lanthanides at Trace Concentration Levels by Selective Excitation of Probe Ion Luminescence |
| 1978 | Marvin P Miller | PhD | Nonradiative Relaxation Processes in Trivalent Erbium Doped Alkaline Earth Fluorides |
| 1976 | David R. Tallant | PhD | Optical Study of Erbium-Doped Calcium Fluoride by Selective Laser Excitation |