Monika Schleier-Smith is an associate professor in the Physics Department at Stanford and Nina C. Crocker Faculty Scholar in the School of Humanities and Sciences.
Sam Cohen (graduate student, Physics) received his undergraduate degree in 2021 from Princeton University, where he pursued research in the group of Jeff Thompson. He subsequently spent one year at the Institut d'Optique in the group of Antoine Browaeys. Sam is supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Jonathan Jeffrey (graduate student, Applied Physics) graduated from Georgia Tech in 2020 with B.S. degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering. He worked as a research scientist in the Quantum Systems Division of the Georgia Tech Research Institute before arriving at Stanford in the fall of 2022.
Merrick Ho (graduate student, Physics) received his B.S. degree from the National University of Singapore, where he conducted research in the group of Travis Nicolson.
Philipp Kunkel (postdoc) received his Ph.D. in 2019 from the University of Heidelberg, where he worked in the group of Markus Oberthaler.
Neomi Lewis (graduate student, Applied Physics) received her undergraduate degree in 2021 from SUNY Stony Brook.
Gabriel Moreau (graduate student, Physics) received a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in Music in 2020 from Michigan State University, where he was a recipient of a Goldwater Scholarship. At Stanford, he is supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Nolan Peard (graduate student, Applied Physics) received B.S. degrees in Physics and Music from MIT in 2020. He is a Fannie & John Hertz Foundation Fellow.
Datla Prithvi Raj (graduate student, Physics) received his B.S. degree in Physics from the National University of Singapore. His past research has been conducted in the Center for Quantum Technologies (group of Huanqian Loh) and at CU Boulder (group of Adam Kaufman). He holds a Stanford Graduate Fellowship.
Shankari Rajagopal (postdoc) received her undergraduate degree from MIT and her Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara in 2019. Currently a Stanford Science Fellow, Shankari will begin a faculty position at the University of Michigan in 2025.
Michael Wahrman (graduate student, Applied Physics) received his undergraduate degree in 2021 from Columbia University.
Michelle Wu (graduate student, Physics) received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan University. Her past research has included work on 3D-printed random lasers, as well as experiments with laser-cooled atoms in the group of Ming-Shien Chang.
Lin Xin (postdoc) received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 2022 in the group of Mike Chapman.
Tony Zhang (graduate student, Physics) graduated from MIT in 2019 with S.B. degrees in Physics and in Math with Computer Science. His undergraduate research included experiments with trapped ions in the group of Isaac Chuang. He is an awardee of the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (DOE-SCGSR) Program.
Ocean Zhou (graduate student, Applied Physics) received his undergraduate degree in 2022 from UC Berkeley. He holds a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.