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Photos of members of the Kolkowitz Group

The Kolkowitz group on April 24th, 2025 (Group outing to the Exploratorium).
From left to right: Jack Dolde, Dhruva Ganapathy, Matt Cambria, Sean Xu, Shimon Kolkowitz, Saroj Chand, Anke Stoeltzel, Jenny Chen, Shuo Ma, Eric Gediman, Bennett Christensen, Manasa Sriraj

For past group photos, please see the Kolkowitz group photo arXiv.

Faculty

Shimon KolkowitzShimon Kolkowitz

Position title:Assistant Professor

Email:kolkowitz@wisc.edu

Phone:(608) 262-2865

Graduate Students

Andrew HouseholderAndrew Householder

Email: andrew_householder@berkeley.edu

Photo of Jordan Lei in natureJordan Lei

Email: jordanlei@berkeley.edu

Alyssa Matthews

Alyssa Matthews

Email: alyssa.matthews@berkeley.edu

Anke StoeltzelAnke Stoeltzel

Email: anke.stoeltzel@berkeley.edu

Undergraduate Researchers

Sean Xu

Leigh Zaman

Post-Baccalauret Researchers

Fiona Kovisto

Postdoctoral Research Associates

Saroj Chand, Postdoctoral ResearcherSaroj Chand

Email: schand@berkeley.edu

Dhruva Ganapathy

Dhruva Ganapathy

E-mail: dhruva@berkeley.edu

Photo of Genyue Liu with the Golden Gate Bridge in the backgroun dGenyue Liu

Email: genyuel@berkeley.edu

Zhongyuan Liu in front of a buildingZhongyuan Liu

photo of Shuo Ma in front of a body of water at sunset

Shuo Ma

Email: shuom112@berkeley.edu

Yael SternfeldYael Sternfeld

Email: yaelsternfeld@berkeley.edu

Kolkowitz Group Alumni

Brighton Coe

Former graduate student. Now a PhD student in the Eriksson group in the Physics department at UW-Madison.

Phillip Flinchum

Former undergraduate researcher.

Carter Fox

Former graduate student researcher in the Kolkowitz group. Now a PhD student with the Xiao group in MS&E at UW-Madison.

Aedan Gardill

Former graduate student. Now an employee at Mad City Labs.

Kelsey Jacobus

Former undergraduate researcher.

Ishita Kemeny

Former postdoc researcher. Now a postdoc in the Brar group in the Physics department at UW-Madison.

Haoran Li

Former undergraduate researcher. Now pursuing a PhD in physics at UCSB in the Jayich group.

Sam Li

Former undergraduate researcher. Now a Physics PhD student at Harvard in the Greiner group.

Hong Ming Lim

Former graduate student researcher. Now a PhD student in the Saffman group in the Physics department at UW-Madison.

Brett Merriman

Former undergraduate researcher. Now pursuing a PhD in physics at UIUC in the Covey group.

Nico Ranabhat

Former undergraduate researcher

Wangping Ren

Former undergraduate researcher. Now pursuing a PhD in physics at Oxford University.

Megan Tabbutt

Former Kolkowitz lab graduate student. Now a member of the Bechtol group.

Celine Tan

Former undergraduate researcher

Jacques Van Damme

Former Masters of Physics – Quantum Computing student and researcher in the Kolkowitz group. Now a PhD student at Imec in Belgium.

Sissi Xu

Former undergraduate researcher. Now an employee at Epic Systems.

Xin Zheng

Former Research Scientist. Currently a Senior Physicist at AOSense, Inc.

Matthew Cambria

Former graduate student. 

Jack Dolde

Former graduate student.

Jenny Chen

Former undergraduate student, now a Physics PhD student at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Bennett Christensen

Former undergraduate student and post-bacc researcher now a PhD student at Colorado State University.