Allison grew up in Superior, CO and went to Fairview High School in Boulder. Currently, she is studying Applied Mathematics with an emphasis in physics and computer science. She began working in the KM Group in summer of 2017 and has really enjoyed doing research. Outside of the lab and her studies, she loves to rock climb and plays on CU Boulder’s Women’s Ultimate Frisbee team.
Matt was born and raised in Norman, Oklahoma. In 2010 he joined the Air Force and became an avionics technician. He met his wife Rie while stationed in Japan and returned to the US to attend school at CU Boulder after finishing his enlistment. A senior, he is expecting to graduate May 2021 with BAs in physics and astronomy. Working with the imaging team, Matt has developed both polarization and phase retrieval projects. He hopes to attend graduate school to continue his studies in AMO. He enjoys cooking, gaming, and hiking in his spare time.
Yingchao grew up in Qingdao, China. He went to Xian Jiaotong University and received Bachelor of Science degree there in 2016. During his undergraduate study, he studied low dimensional materials using optical techniques such as near field optical microscope. Now, he works on angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and tries to reveal the novel properties of quantum materials. Besides research, he also has many other hobbies including music, movies, Ping-pong, hiking and etc..
Wenjing grew up in Yangzhou, China and graduated with B.S. in Physics at Nanjing University in 2015. She joined the KM group in the summer of 2016. She is now focusing her research on photoemission spectroscopy. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and hiking.
Bin Wang grew up in Yellow Mountain in China. He pursued undergraduate studies at University of Science and Technology of China. While there, he performed theoretical research on spin transportation in Double-Quantum-Dot systems. After graduating in 2016 with a B.S. in physics with honors, he joined the KM group in the fall of 2016 to work on nanoimaging. Outside of science, Bin enjoys reading books, doing outdoor activities, cooking & baking.
Jeremy grew up in the St. Louis area and received his B.S. in Physics at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2018. His undergraduate research with Edward Ackad used numerical models to study interactions of ultrafast EUV lasers with noble gas nanoclusters. He joined the KM Group in 2018 and has enjoyed working on the development and precise control of ultrafast VUV and EUV light sources for applications in atomic clocks, spintronics, imaging, and more.
NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022)
R&D100 Award (2019)
Sinéad grew up in Aberdeen, Scotland. She graduated from the University of St. Andrews with a first class honours MPhys in experimental physics in 2018. As an undergraduate, she worked on projects in the fields of synthetic optics, cold atoms and Kerr lens modelocked laser design. In 2017, she completed a semester exchange at the College of William & Mary where she worked on a project to design an ECDL laser.
Drew grew up in the Pacific Northwestern corner of Washington State. He graduated from Brown University in 2013 with a degree in chemical physics, and joined the CU Boulder physics Ph.D. program in the summer of 2016. In the interim three years, he worked as a research assistant at the Max-Born-Institut in Berlin, Germany and at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, and traveled extensively. Drew’s previous research topics have included plasmonic interferometry, ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy, electron bubbles in liquid helium and other topics.
Brendan grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and studied mathematics and German as an undergraduate at UNC Chapel Hill. After spending a year as an exchange student at the University of Ulm in southern Germany, he became interested in renewable energy integration into electric power systems. He subsequently worked for two years at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, specializing in simulating the operational effects of connecting large-scale wind and solar generators to South Asian electricity grids.
