Graduate Student

Lab Role Sort Order
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Weiss

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.

Bernal

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

Harle

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.

Boettner

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

Adsule

Harish completed his BS-MS in Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, where he worked in the Photonic Devices Lab, getting entangled with Quantum Optics and modelling quantum dot devices. He also had a brief interaction with the Condensed Matter Theory group as a part of his MS project. Subsequently, he joined the Sun group as a PhD student and is currently interested in spin physics in quantum dots.

Lee

I am a graduate student working on the strontium 3D lattice clock, where we study many-body phenomena to understand and enhance the performance of atomic clocks. I received my master's degree at the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Immanuel Bloch's group implementing optical tweezers for a fermionic quantum processor.