
Martin Zwierlein
Thomas A. Frank (1977) Professor of Physics
Department of Physics, Center for Ultracold Atoms and Research Laboratory of Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Room 26-255
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-324-4310
zwierlein.AT.mit.edu
Curriculum Vitae | Physics Dept. Bio | Quantum World Video

Eric Wolf
Graduate Student – BEC1: Fermionic Superfluids
Room 26-267
617-324-0500
eawolf.AT.mit.edu

Huan Bui
Graduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Graduate Student – BEC1: Fermionic Superfluids (2021-2023)
Room 26-267
617-324-0500
huanbui.AT.mit.edu

Yiming Zhang
Graduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Room 26-265
yzhang97.AT.mit.edu

Jacob VanArsdale
Graduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Room 26-265
jacobvan.AT.mit.edu

Botond Oreg
Graduate Student – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope
Room 26-167
bzo20.AT.mit.edu

Carter Turnbaugh
Graduate Student – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope
Room 26-167
cartertu.AT.mit.edu

Tingran Wang
Graduate Student – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope
Room 26-167
trwang.AT.mit.edu
Jens Hertkorn
Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope
Room 26-167
j3h.AT.mit.edu

Ruixiao Yao
Graduate Student – Fermi3: Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases
Room 26-267
413-379-6274
ruixiaoy.AT.mit.edu

Sungjae Chi
Graduate Student – Fermi3: Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases
Room 26-267
sungjchi.AT.mit.edu

Kevin Wang
Graduate Student – Fermi3: Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases
Room 26-267
mkwang24.AT.mit.edu
FORMER GROUP MEMBERS
Alexander Yu Chuang
Graduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK

Ningyuan Jia
Postdoctoral Associate – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope
Senior Quantum Scientist at QuERA Computing, Inc.
Airlia Shaffer-Moag
Graduate Student – Fermi3: Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases
Postdoc with Galit Lahav at Harvard Medical School
Thomas Hartke
Graduate Student – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope
Yiqi Ni
Graduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK

Cedric Wilson
Graduate Student – Fermi3: Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases
Postdoc with Charles Brown at Yale
Carsten Robens
Postdoctoral Associate
Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK | BEC1: Fermionic Superfluids
Quantum Research Scientist at AWS Center for Quantum Networking
Richard Fletcher
Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow
Fermi3: Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases
rfletch.AT.mit.edu

Parth Patel
Graduate Student – BEC 1: Fermionic Superfluids
Scientist at Vector Atomic

Biswaroop Mukherjee
Graduate Student – BEC 1: Fermionic Superfluids
Quantum Research Scientist, Software at Amazon
Zhenjie Yan
Graduate Student – BEC 1: Fermionic Superfluids
Postdoc with Dan Stamper-Kurn at UC Berkeley
Zoe Yan
Graduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Postdoc with Waseem Bakr at Princeton
Lev Kendrick
Undergraduate Student – Fermi3
J. Thatcher Chamberlin
Undergraduate Student – Fermi3

Matthew Nichols
Graduate Student – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope
Quantitative Researcher at Radix Trading
Hao Zhang
Postdoctoral Associate – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope

Elmer Guardado-Sanchez
Undergraduate Student – BEC 1: Fermionic Superfluids
PhD student with Waseem Bakr at Princeton

Wenjie Ji
Graduate Student – Theory of Fermionic Superfluids
Working with Xiao-Gang Wen at MIT

Mark Ku
Graduate Student – BEC 1: Fermionic Superfluids
Postdoc at Harvard
Jennifer Schloss
Graduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Graduate Student with Ron Walsworth
Qingyang Wang
Graduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Graduate Student with Susanne Yelin

Waseem Bakr
Postdoctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor at Princeton University
wbakr@princeton.edu

Jordan Goldstein
Undergraduate Student

Peyman Ahmadi
Postdoctoral Fellow 08/2008-12/2011
Research Scientist at Nufern

Caroline Figgatt
Undergraduate Student 01/2008-05/2011
Graduate Student in the group of Chris Monroe, NIST/Maryland

Thomas Gersdorf
Diploma Student (ETH Zürich) 03/2011-02/2012
Diploma Thesis:
A Quantum Gas Microscope for Fermionic Atoms

Sara Campbell
Undergraduate Student 01/2009 – 06/2010
Summer Student 05/2011-07/2011
Senior thesis:
Building an Apparatus for Ultracold Lithium-Potassium Fermi-Fermi Mixtures
Graduate Student in the group of Jun Ye, JILA, Boulder, Colorado
2018 Howard-Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Hanna Gray Fellow

Christoph Clausen
Visiting Student 11/2007 – 08/2008
Graduate Student in the group of Nicolas Gisin, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Pangus Ho
Undergraduate Student 01/2008-05/2008
Kevin Fischer
Undergraduate Student 01/2009 – 12/2009
Graduate Student in the group of Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford, CA

Vinay Ramasesh
Undergraduate Student -05/2012
Master Student 2012-2013
Senior thesis:
Towards a Quantum Gas Microscope for Fermionic Atoms
Master thesis:
Construction of a Fermi Gas Microscope for Fermionic Atoms
Graduate student at Berkely with Irfan Siddiqi

Ibon Santiago
Graduate Student 09/2008-05/2012
Master thesis:
LiNaK: Multi-Species Apparatus for the Study of Ultracold Quantum Degenerate Mixtures
Graduate Student at Oxford University
Julian Struck
Postdoctoral Fellow – BEC 1: Fermionic Superfluids
Junior Research Chair Département de Physique
Ecole Normale Supérieure / PSL Research University, CNRS
Sebastian Will
Research Scientist – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Tarik Yefsah
Postdoctoral Fellow -BEC 1: Fermionic Superfluids
CNRS Permanent Researcher at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

André Schirotzek
Graduate Student 01/2005 – 01/2010
Ph.D. Thesis:
Radio-Frequency Spectroscopy of Ultracold Atomic Fermi Gases
Research Scientist at the Advanced Light Source (ALES)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Scientific Assistant, Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert-Einstein Institute), Berlin

Jacob Sharpe
Undergraduate Student 09/2008 – 08/2009
5 diabolo passing world record holder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_f8gU20oWM

Ariel Sommer
Graduate Student 2007-01/2013
Ph.D. Thesis:
Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases: Non-Equilibrium Dynamics and Dimensional Crossover
Postdoctoral Fellow at U. Chicago (Jon Simon) and MIT (W. Ketterle)
Assistant Professor, Lehigh University

Cheng-Hsun Wu
Graduate Student 2007-01/2013
Ph.D. Thesis:
Strongly Interacting Quantum Mixtures of Ultracold Atoms
Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University
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Zachary Bogorad
Undergraduate Student – BEC 1: Fermionic Superfluids

Lawrence W. Cheuk
Graduate Student – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope
Ph.D. Thesis:
Quantum Gas Microscopy of Strongly Correlated Fermions
Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (Group of John Doyle) (2016-2019)
Assistant Professor at Princeton University (since 2019)
Katherine Lawrence
Graduate Student – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope

Huanqian Loh
Postdoctoral Fellow – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
President’s Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Centre for Quantum Technologies
National University of Singapore

Melih Okan
Graduate Student – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope

Emilio Pace
Undergraduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK

Jeewoo Park
Graduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Yong-Il Shin at the
Quantum Gas Lab @ Seoul National University