People
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.
Eric Cooper (graduate student, Physics) graduated from Pomona College in 2018, receiving the American Physical Society’s Leroy Apker Award for his outstanding undergraduate research. Eric holds an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Jacob Hines (graduate student, Applied Physics) received his B.S. in Physics from UC Santa Barbara in the College of Creative Studies program in 2016. At UCSB, he conducted his senior thesis research in the Weld Lab. Jacob holds a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate 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.
Ognjen Marković (graduate student, Physics) received B.A. and M.Sci. degrees in physics from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 2015. He has previously conducted research at the Weizmann Institute and in the group of Zoran Hadzibabic at Cambridge. Throughout his time at university, Ognjen also taught and mentored gifted high school students in the physics program at the Petnica Science Center in Serbia.
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.
Avikar Periwal (graduate student, Physics) received his undergraduate degree in Physics from Caltech in 2018, minoring in Computer Science. He is a recipient of the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
Shankari Rajagopal (postdoc) received her undergraduate degree from MIT and her Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara in 2019. She is a Stanford Science Fellow.
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.