Adam grew up in Wausau, Wisconsin and earned his Bachelors in Physics, Math, and Astrophysics at the University of Wisconsin Madison in the spring of 2015. While there he did biomaterials research with Pupa Gilbert on nacre and other hard biominerals. In the fall of 2015 he started the Ph.D. program at CU Boulder in Physics. The following summer he joined the KM group and now focuses on...

David grew up near Nashville, TN and attended Rice University in Houston, TX, graduating with a B.S. in chemical physics and a B.A. in psychology. As an undergraduate, he worked on fluorescence of molecules in order to study cold chemical reactions. David joined the KM group as a graduate student in July, 2013. His hobbies include hiking, skiing, drumming, and reading fantasy novels.

Jennifer grew up in Austin, TX. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in both physics and astronomy. Her undergraduate research was primarily in astronomy, studying white dwarf stars. After realizing she loved the more hands on aspects of experimental research she decided to pursue a PhD in physics, and joined the KM group in the summer of 2012. When not in the lab...

Travis grew up in Big Creek, a small mountain town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.  He pursued undergraduate studies at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, graduating summa cum laude in 2013 with a B.S. in physics, and a minor in math.  While at Cal Poly, Travis performed experimental research on novel optical dipole traps for quantum computation applications, and theoretical research on...

Guan comes from Hefei, China and received his B.S. in physics from Peking University in 2016. During his undergraduate time, he worked on design and fabrication of Organic LED device. When he found more interest in ultrafast laser experiment, he joined the KM group in the summer of 2016. Now he is working in the molecule lab.  Guan likes many kinds of indoor and outdoor sports, including...

Robert grew up in Redding, Connecticut. He then made his way to Rochester, New York to study at the Rochester Institute of Technology. While there, he studied the dynamics of silver crystals in electrochemical systems using X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy. In the spring of 2014, he graduated summa cum laude honors with a B.S. in Physics with minors in Mathematics, Optical Science, and...

Drew grew up in the Pacific Northwestern corner of Washington State. He graduated from Brown University in 2013 with a degree in chemical physics, and joined the CU Boulder physics Ph.D. program in the summer of 2016. In the interim three years, he worked as a research assistant at the Max-Born-Institut in Berlin, Germany and at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, and traveled...

Christina is from Portland Oregon and completed her B.A. degree in Physics at Reed College in 2013. She is interested in novel imaging techniques, especially with applications in biology and chemistry. She received an M.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in 2014, where her research was on mid-infrared microscopy capable of sub-wavelength resolution using a super-...

Bin Wang grew up in Yellow Mountain in China. He pursued undergraduate studies at University of Science and Technology of China. While there, he performed theoretical research on spin transportation in Double-Quantum-Dot systems. After graduating in 2016 with a B.S. in physics with honors, he joined the KM group in the fall of 2016 to work on nanoimaging. Outside of science, Bin enjoys reading...

Yingchao grew up in Qingdao, China. He went to Xian Jiaotong University and received Bachelor of Science degree there in 2016. During his undergraduate study, he studied low dimensional materials using optical techniques such as near field optical microscope. Now, he works on angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and tries to reveal the novel properties of quantum materials....