Graduate Student

I am a graduate student working on the 1d strontium lattice clock experiments. I received my bachelor's degree from University of Science and Technology of China.

I’m a graduate student working on high-resolution molecular spectroscopy for breath analysis using mid-IR frequency combs. I completed my undergraduate degree in physics at Carleton College.

I am a graduate student working on the KRb polar molecules experiment. I received my bachelor's in Physics and Mathematics from U.C. Berkeley, where I made optical tweezers move in 3D at Dan Stamper-Kurn's lab.

Bennett grew up in Seattle, Washington, and received his BS in physics from Rice University in 2025. Working as an undergraduate in Dr. Thomas Killian’s Lab, Bennett studied shockwave dynamics in ultracold plasmas and synthetic dimension quantum simulators.

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.