Zekai Chen

Bose-Einstein Condensation Lab, Postdoctoral researcher.

zchen57 <at> ur.rochester.edu

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Zekai Chen earned his B.S degree in electronics engineering in Peking University in Beijing, China. During his undergraduate study he worked in a cold atom group in Peking University. When he came to Rochester, he first worked on quantum metrology in Prof. John Howell's group. Zekai joined Bigelow's trapping and cooling group in 2017. His research focused on synthetic gauge potentials induced by the Raman process in an ultracold quantum gaseous system and imprinting topological defects such as skyrmions and knots in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate with the Raman process.

After graduation in 2022, he joined Hanns-Christoph Nägerl's group in University of Innsbruck in Austria, working on ultracold RbCs molecule project and build up interests in ultracold polar molecules, strongly correlated many-body system and quantum chaos and thermalization.

Zekai rejoined the CAT group in Fall 2024.