Graduate Student

Before joining the Kaufman Group, Jack completed his undergraduate degree in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins. There, he quickly became fascinated with many-body physics, leading him to work in experimental condensed matter under Prof. Collin Broholm. Using neutron scattering, he investigated quantum magnetism and superconductivity and even tried to synthesize some novel materials. His path to AMO began the first time he heard about optical tweezers. After two years of imaging materials with scattering, the opportunity to catch individual atoms in the catch was too good to pass up.

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Johnny grew up in Southeastern Massachusetts and graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in Physics in 2024. As an undergraduate, he worked on projects in coherent diffractive imaging and tomography using synchrotron x-ray light sources. His current research interests focus on the applications of table-top extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray high harmonic sources for imaging and critical dimension metrology.

Sarah is from Burlington, Vermont, where she attended the University of Vermont and graduated in 2025 in the Honors College with dual degrees in Physics and Mathematics. Her undergraduate honors thesis focused on the behavior of light in optical microcavities, specifically strongly coupled exciton-photon polaritons and their effect on cavity resonance.

Alison graduated from Amherst College with a degree in Physics and Computer Science. During college, she gained exposure to several areas of physics. She worked on topological photonics research in Mikael Rechtsman's group at Penn State and on an antihydrogen hyperfine structure measurement experiment at CERN. For her undergraduate thesis, she characterized and mitigated various sources of error on Professor Larry Hunter's long-range spin-spin interaction precision measurement experiment.

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He graduated with honors from Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 2024, working on using quantum sensors for probing physics beyond the standard model.