Graduate Student

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.

Classical light sources, like Lasers, have a fundamental limit on how small of a signal they can measure (the Sta

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

Nikhil completed his undergraduate degree in intensive physics at Yale, where he worked with Peter Schiffer and Michel Devoret on projects studying emergent order in artificial spin ice systems and fundamental paradigms of quantum mechanics (in addition to a brief foray into COVID-19 misinformation during the pandemic). After working on projects implementing digital quantum simulations at IBM, Nikhil started his PhD at UChicago under Hannes Bernien, where he worked on a second generation dual-species tweezer array before transferring to JILA.

I am a graduate student working on high-resolution mid-IR molecular spectroscopy using frequency combs. I received my undergraduate degree from Trinity College, where I worked on high-pressure nanoparticle colloids