Olivia Krohn
Former JILA graduate student Olivia Krohn was awarded a distinguished fellowship at Sandia National Laboratories. The prestigious fellowship is a three-year appointment that support independent and groundbreaking research.
Krohn was awarded the Jill Hruby Postdoctoral Fellowship, named for the first woman to lead a national security lab. Krohn’s research focuses on molecular collisions, particularly at low energies. Her team employs advanced laser techniques which help control the velocity of molecules and measure the energy distribution after molecules collide.
Krohn completed her PhD in physics at JILA, CU Boulder in 2023 with Professor and JILA Fellow Heather Lewandowski. Her dissertation focused on trapping laser-cooled ions to perform and observe cold chemical reactions. She was also awarded the 2025 Justin Jankunas Doctoral Dissertation Award in Chemical Physics by the American Physical Society.
Written by Kirsten Apodaca, CU Boulder Physics