Associate Professor Shimon Kolkowitz
Funding bold and innovative science
Associate Professor and Herst Chair in Physics Shimon Kolkowitz has been named a member of the third annual cohort of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators, to achieve remarkable physics insights and open new frontiers. This new cohort of 19 researchers will each receive a five-year, $1.25 million grant to enable them to pursue their research goals and try new ideas.
“I am honored to have been selected as a Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator", said Kolkowitz, who is an Associate Professor and Herst Chair in Physics. "This award will support the construction and operation of a brand new meter-scale tabletop network of optical atomic clocks at UC Berkeley designed to search for new physics. By performing precision comparisons between optical atomic clocks in novel ways we will test the predictions of general relativity in the lab at a level competitive with the most sensitive space-based experiments, search for dark matter in unexplored regions of parameter space, and begin to explore the interplay between relativity and quantum mechanics.”