People

Current Group Members

Former Group Members

Postdoctoral 

• Dr. Arina Tashchilina (2020-2024)
  Current position: PDF @IQOQI Ferlaino group

• Dr. Erhan Saglamyurek (2016-2022)
  Current position: Project Scientist @ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories

Graduate (alphabetically by last name)

• Bahar Babaei (M.Sc. Physics 2024): "Microwave-optical double-resonance vector magnetometry with warm Rb atom"
  Current position: Research Assistant, our group

• Logan W. Cooke (Ph.D. Physics 2024): "Artificial Gauge Fields in Ultracold Atomic Ensembles"
  Current position: Postdoctoral fellow, Czischek group, University of Ottawa

• Taras Hrushevskyi (M.Sc. Physics, 2017): "Quantum gas apparatus for Bose-Einstein condensation of 87Rb"
  Current position: Research Associate, Barzanjeh group, University of Calgary

• Joseph Lindon (M.Sc. Physics 2024): "A Qutrit in Ultracold Rubidium-87"
  Current position: Quantum hardware engineer, Anyon Systems, Waterloo, ON

• Brittany (Ying-Ying) Lu (M.Sc. Physics 2021): "Magnetometry with Microwave-Assisted Optical Pumping in Warm Rb Vapor and Microfabricated Rb Vapor Cells"
  Current position: PhD candidate, UCLA

• James Maldaner (M. Sc. ECE, 2020): "Towards a monolithic process for open-access Fabry-Perot etalon cavities"
  Current position: PhD candidate, Porat group, University of Alberta

• Anindya Rastogi (Ph.D. Physics 2024): "Broadband, on-demand optical memories based on alkali-atom-ensemble for photonic quantum technologies"
  Current position: Postdoctoral fellow, Walmsley group, Imperial College London (London UK)

• Benjamin D. Smith (Ph.D. Physics 2024): "Nonlinear interactions using neutral atomic gases"
  Current position: Postdoctoral fellow, Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM, USA)

• Michelle Sullivan (M. Sc. Physics, 2020): "A Cold Atoms Apparatus for a New Hybrid Quantum System"
  Current position: Secondary school teacher, Edmonton Public School Board

• Jacques Thibault (M.Sc. Physics, 2019): "Micro-wire Magnetic Trap Chips for use in Ultracold Atom Experiments"
  Current position: Consultant, Baker Hughes (Calgary)

• Andrei Tretiakov (M.Sc. Physics 2016 & Ph.D. Physics 2021) "Manipulating optical properties of rubidium through microwave interactions "
  Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Campbell group, UCLA

Undergraduate (alphabetically by last name)

• Sarah Amaneddine (B.Sc. Physics, 2024) [summer researcher 2021]

• Satchel Jeanne Armena (B.Sc. Physics, 2020) [Phys 499 project Winter 2020]

• Jayke Boghean (B.Sc. Engineering Physics, Co-op 2022) [summer USRA researcher 2019]

• Jacob Byers (B.Sc. Engineering Physics, Co-op 2023) [summer USRA researcher 2020]

• Christian Chenard (B.Sc. Engineering Physics 2024) [summer researcher 2023]

• Holly Christiani (B.Sc. Physics, 2018) [Phys 499 project Winter 2018]

• Kristen Côté (B.Sc. Physics, 2015) [Phys 499 project Winter 2016]

• Douglas Florizone (BSc. Engineering Physics, 2026) [Co-op research 2024]

• Luca Galler (B.Sc. Astrophysics, 2025, Waterloo) [Co-op research 2022-2023]

• Sophie Gans (B.Sc. Astrophysics, 2024) [Summer research 2024]

• Charles Jensen (B.Sc. Physics, 2015) [lab volunteer 2014]

• Taryn Haluza-DeLay (B.Sc. Engineering Physics, 2020) [summer USRA researcher 2017]

• Chad Hauck (B.Sc. Physics 2023) [summer USRA researcher 2022]

• Julieta Hernandez (B.Sc. Physics 2022) [Phys 499 Fall 2021]

• Chenxi Huang (B.Sc. Engineering Physics, Coop 2020) [summer researcher/Coop 2016]

• Yeh-In Kang (B.Sc. Engineering Physics 2024) [summer researcher 2022]

• Inka Kennepohl (B. Sc. Physics, 2021) [summer SUPRE researcher 2019 & Phys 499 Fall 2021]

• Timothy Lee (B. Sc. Engineering Physics, Co-op 2022) [summer researcher/Co-op 2018 + co-op Winter 2019]

• James Maldaner (B.Sc. Eng. Phys. 2015, also see above) [ECE 409 project, summer researcher 2014]

• William Morrish (B.Sc. Physics 2015) [summer researcher 2015]

• Ketty Na (B.Sc. Physics, 2016) [lab volunteer 2014; Phys 499 project Fall 2015]

• Keiran Nicholson (B.Sc. Physics 2025) [USRA summer researcher 2023]

• Jessica Obacz (B.Sc. Physics 2015) [summer researcher 2014]

• Tian Ooi (B. Sc. Engineering Physics, 2023) [summer SUPRE researcher 2020 + Co-op Winter-Summer 2021+ summer research 2023]

• Christian Prosko (B.Sc. Physics 2016) [Phys 499 project Fall 2015]

• Anna Prus-Czarnecka (B.Sc. Physics 2024) [research assistant 2021 - 2023]

• Dylan Podkowka (B.Sc. Physics 2016) [lab volunteer 2014/5]

• Franz Benedict Romero (BSc. Engineering Physics, 2026) [Co-op research 2024]

• Myles Ruether (B.Sc. Physics 2020) [summer researcher 2019 & 2020, Phys 499 Winter 2020]

• Haille Sharum (B.Sc. Physics 2015) [summer researcher 2015]

• Xiaodan (Alice) Shen (B.Sc. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2015) [summer intern, 2014]

• Jichu Shi (B.Sc. Engineering Physics 2024) [summer SUPRE researcher 2022, summer researcher 2023, RA 2023-2024]

• Tristan Stark (B. Sc. Physics 2019) [Phys 499 project Winter 2019]

• Daniel To (B. Sc. Engineering Physics, Coop 2022) [summer researcher/Co-op 2018]

• Carter Trautman (B.Sc. Engineering Physics, 2020) [co-op researcher May-Dec 2017]

• Scott Wilson (B.Sc. Engineering Physics, Coop 2020) [summer USRA/fall researcher/Coop 2016]

• Salman Zafar (B.Sc. Engineering 2026)[ELITE Program for Black Youth summer researcher, 2023]

High-school interns 

• Brielle Airey (WISEST Summer Research program) [summer 2023]

• Julia Hokanson [summers 2023, 2024]

• Svetlana Hricko (WISEST Summer Research program) [summer 2024]

• Anna Konnova (WISEST Summer Research program) [summer 2024]

Research Assistants (alphabetically by last name)

• Taras Hrushevskyi (RA from 2017 - 2021, now at Barzanjeh lab @ UCalgary)

• Myles Ruether (RA from 2020 - 2021, now at Simmons lab @ SFU/Photonic Inc)