Email: cweber@scu.edu
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Group leader
Group leader
Chris Weber, Ph.D.
2021 - present. Professor of Physics and Engineering Physics at Santa Clara University
2014 - 2021. Associate professor of Physics at Santa Clara University
2008 - 2014. Assistant professor of Physics at Santa Clara University
2005-2008. Post-doctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2005. Ph.D. in physics from U.C. Berkeley
1999. B.A. in physics and applied mathematics from U.C. Berkeley
Undergraduate researchers
Undergraduate researchers
Max Gertner, 2026
Engineering Physics Major
Geoff and Josie Fox Fellow
Anna Kavanagh, 2027
Physics Major
Clare Boothe Luce Fellow
Interested in joining us? Contact Prof. Weber for information about research positions.
Lab Group Alumni
Lab Group Alumni
Former group member: Postdoctoral researcher
Former group member: Postdoctoral researcher
Erin Knutson, Ph.D.
Erin Knutson earned a B.A. in physics from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 2015, with a minor in mathematics. During college, she worked as a researcher in an atomic cooling and trapping laboratory at the Patuxent River Naval Air Force base. She enrolled at Tulane University to pursue a Ph.D. in physics under advisor Dr. Ryan T. Glasser. Her Ph.D. research centered on nonlinear and quantum optics, specifically the generation of multimode squeezed light using four-wave mixing in atomic vapor, as well as the application of orbital angular momentum of light to machine learning-based optical communications schemes. Erin was awarded a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship in 2017 and defended her thesis in June 2020. She joined the Weber lab in Sept. 2020.
Starting in summer of 2021, Erin works as an editor for Physical Review A.
Former group member: Postdoctoral researcher
Former group member: Postdoctoral researcher
Manita Rai, Ph.D.
In July 2022 Mania Rai joined the Weber group as a postdoctoral researcher. Manita earned her Ph.D. from Temple University in the group of Darius Torchinsky. While in the Weber group she has worked on surface X-ray diffraction measurements of topological semimetals, pump-probe and transient-grating measurements of coherent phonons, and time-resolved circular dichroism.
Starting in January 2025 she is a postdoc in the group of Anatoly Zayats at King's College London.
Former group members: Undergraduates
Former group members: Undergraduates
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Former group member: Visitor
Former group member: Visitor
Fabian Cadiz
Fabian visited the Weber lab for two months in 2014, while a Ph.D. student in Daniel Paget's group at École polytechnique. He is currently an assistant professor at École polytechnique.
Chris Weber's contact information
Chris Weber's contact information
Email: cweber@scu.edu
Phone: none
Office: SCDI, room 2311Q (2nd floor, southeast corner)
Lab: SCDI, rooms 1106 & 1108 (1st floor, north wing)
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Mailing address: Department of Physics and Engineering Physics // Santa Clara University // 500 El Camino Real // Santa Clara, CA 95053-0315 U.S.A.
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