CV
Education
| University of Colorado, Boulder | Boulder, CO |
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| PhD Physics | Aug 2023 - Present |
| Research Advisor: Jun Ye |
| State University of New York, Stony Brook | Stony Brook, NY |
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| BS Physics with Honors & Optics Specialization, Summa Cum Laude GPA: 3.97 |
Aug 2018 - May 2022 |
| Mentors: Prof. Dominik Schneble, Dr. Martin G. Cohen |
| Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art | New York, NY |
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| Major in visual art | Sep 2014 - May 2018 |
Research Experience
| Ye Group (JILA / CU Boulder) | Boulder, CO |
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| Supervisor: Jun Ye | Jul 2023 - Present |
| Working on a 3D optical lattice clock project, pushing the limits of atomic clock precision and studying the many-body physics of a fermi-degenerate gas in an optical lattice. |
| Advanced Optical BioImaging Lab (SciLifeLab / Royal Institute of Technology) | Stockholm, Sweden |
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| Supervisor: Professor Ilaria Testa | Sep 2022 - May 2023 |
| Used a spatial light modulator to create holographic optical focus arrays. The focus array is being implemented in a RESOLFT microscopy setup, used to study live neurons and other cells. | |
| As a community engagement project, initiated the program “Scientific Research Through an Artist’s Lens,” connecting 16 artists from the Royal Institute of Art with 33 researchers at SciLifeLab in Stockholm, with an exhibition planned at SciLifeLab for April 25th, 2023. |
| Ultracold Quantum Systems Group (Stony Brook University) | Stony Brook, NY |
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| Mentors: Professor D. Schneble, Dr. M.G. Cohen | Aug 2020 - Aug 2022 |
| Designed a system to engineer optical traps for ultracold atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Experimented with holography with a digital micromirror device. | |
| Additionally, investigated the lineshape of transitions between the magnetic sublevels of the ground state of Rubidium with Prof. Schneble’s guidance, in a double-resonance (optical pumping) setup. |
Honors & Scholarships
| Fulbright Research Award Sweden (Fulbright U.S. Student Program) | Sep 2022 - May 2023 |
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| 1 of 13 selected for 9 months of funded independent research or study in Sweden. Awarded the Roth-Thomson award by the Lois Roth Foundation to support the community engagement project “Scientific Research Through an Artist’s Lens.” |
| Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award (Swiss Benevolent Society of New York) | Aug 2021 - May 2022 |
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| Award granted to a college senior or graduate student who demonstrates sustained academic excellence (cumulative GPA of at least 3.8) in a demanding study program |
| Sigma Pi Sigma Inductee (American Institute of Physics) | Apr 2021 |
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| Membership is awarded each year to selected physics students at Stony Brook University |
| Academic Achievement Award (Stony Brook University) | Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021 |
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| Awarded to students who achieve a 4.00 GPA for an academic semester |
Presentations
| Creating adaptable multi-focal arrays (MFAs) for pRESOLFT with a spatial light modulator (SLM) | Porto, Portugal |
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| Presented poster at the 2023 Focus On Microscopy conference. | Apr 2023 |
| Creating an Optical Ring Lattice for Bose Einstein Condensates using a Digital Micromirror Device | Stony Brook, NY |
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| Stony Brook University 2021 Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Symposium | May 2021 |
| 20-minute virtual talk to physics faculty and students on research conducted in the Ultracold Quantum Systems Lab |
Teaching Experience
| Private tutor | New York, NY |
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| New York State Regents high school physics | Oct 2019 - May 2020 |
Leadership Experience
| RC Flying Club (Stony Brook University) | Aug 2019 - Aug 2021 |
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| As president, held fly meets at Stony Brook’s R&D Park where members flew their aircraft. Organized an activity in SBU’s STEM Craft Night 2020. |
| American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, SBU Chapter (Stony Brook University) | Sep 2019 - Jul 2020 |
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| Leader of the testing subteam and selected electronics for the national Design/Build/Fly competition aircraft. Qualified for the competition and placed 61/101. |
Memberships
| Sigma Pi Sigma (American Institute of Physics) | Apr 2021 - Present |
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| Physics national honors society |
| Laser Teaching Center (Stony Brook University) | Apr 2020 - May 2022 |
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| Conducted experiments remotely using an optics kit provided by the center in the summer of 2020. Measured the evolution of laser beam profile over propagation distance and learned about diffraction and Gaussian beams |
| Society of Physics Students (American Insitute of Physics, SBU chapter) | Sep 2018 - May 2022 |
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| Participated in the club’s membership program as a mentor from Nov 2021 to May 2022 |
Skills
| Programming |
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| Python, Mathematica, Matlab, and LaTeX |
| Languages |
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| English, Swiss-German |