Ceren is an asst. professor at Indiana University Bloomington in the Department of Physics, and a research scholar at Harvard University in the Department of Physics. Ceren enjoys working at the intersections of different subfields of physics, brainstorming with other scientists and spending time with nature. She was an ITAMP Fellow at Harvard University before joining IU Bloomington as a faculty. She earned her PhD in Physics at University of Michigan Ann Arbor in 2021 studying quantum many-body systems out of equilibrium, quantum phases and phase transitions. Prior to that, she graduated in 2015 from Istanbul Technical University double majoring in Physics and Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering, where she started physics research with quantum thermodynamics and quantum optics. Click here to see Ceren's contributions, or check the Research tab.
Dr. Ma earned his PhD in 2023 at the University of Connecticut in Storrs writing his dissertation on cooperative phenomena in many-body radiative systems with analytical and numerical methods in Yelin Group. He was a visiting PhD student at Harvard University between 2021 and 2023, and continued to work in Yelin Group at Harvard as a postdoctoral research until he joined our group in February 2025. Prior to his graduate training, he graduated from Wuhan University in 2017 majoring in physics and studying heat transfer between metamaterials covered by semiconducting films. He is currently focusing on cavity induced physics in quantum materials and engineered systems, open quantum systems and Rydberg atom array quantum simulations.
Lauren is a PhD student in Physics at Princeton University, New Jersey and regularly visiting our group. She is excited by the discovery of hidden patterns and emergent phenomena in complex systems, and interested in many-body physics, quantum simulation, and statistical mechanics. She graduated from MIT in 2023 majoring in Physics. In our group, she is focusing on the preparation and dynamical detection of symmetry protected topological states in quantum simulators, and many-body physics out of equilibrium.
Dr. Karle investigates chiral cavity induced physics in quantum matter in our group. He graduated from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in 2024 working in Lemeshko Group on the topics of quantum chaos, ultracold atoms and molecules, and many-body physics. Click here to see Volker's contributions.
Cole Brzezinski, 3rd year in Computer Science and Physics majors at IU
Jiecheng Feng, PhD student in Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
Zhongling Lu, PhD student in Yale University