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
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Lasers and optics
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Experimental instrumentation
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Quantum and semi-classical modeling, computational methods and HPC
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Teaching physics at all levels