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Resume

Work
Experience

2019 - Present

ORAU Senior Research Fellow

Quantum Science Branch, DEVCOM ARL

Supporting or co-leading projects in: solid-state polaritonic diamond clock, diamond magnetometry, the search for SiC defects, electrometry and wavemixing with Rydberg atoms, quantum communication with cold atom spin waves

2014 - 2019

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the University of Maryland, College Park

Group of Paul Lett and Bill Phillips

Built and operated a sodium Bose-Einstein condensate experiment focused on sensing below the Standard Quantum Limit using spin-mixing collisions.

2017 - 2018

Research Assistant

Bryn Mawr College

Group of Michael Noel

Operated two magneto-optical traps and elucidated qualities of the dipole-dipole interaction between Rydberg atoms, including coherence, scaling, and range.

Education

2007- 2014

Bryn Mawr College |
PhD in Physics

Among other things, I developed a technique for imaging the resonant long-range dipole-dipole interaction between ultracold Rydberg atoms in a magneto-optical trap.

2003- 2007

University of Wisconsin-Madison | BS in Physics

I served as president of the University Physical Society, and worked on the Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory.

Skills
& Expertise

  • Lasers and optics

  • Experimental instrumentation

  • Quantum and semi-classical modeling, computational methods and HPC

  • Teaching physics at all levels

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