Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics Experimentalist

Roger Falcone is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and an affiliated faculty member of Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group and Applied Science and Technology Program. He chaired the Physics Department from 1995-2000. As of January 2018 he is a Professor of the Graduate School at Berkeley. He received his A.B. in Physics (1974) from Princeton, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (1979) from Stanford, and was the Marvin Chodorow Fellow in Applied Physics (1980-83) at Stanford. He was the Director of the Advanced Light Source x-ray synchrotron facility at...

Aziza Suleymanzade is an Assistant Professor, holding the endowed Robert J. Birgeneau Professorship in Physics. Her group explores hybrid quantum systems that combine Rydberg atoms, superconducting circuits, and nanophotonics. Her research focuses on creating novel quantum interfaces and generating entanglement resources that link these platforms for quantum information processing, communication, and sensing.

Prior to joining Berkeley, Aziza was a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard University, working on silicon-vacancy-based quantum networks in diamond nanophotonic cavities. She...

Kater Murch is Professor of Physics and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. Kater received his B.A. in physics from Reed College in 2002. After that, he spent a long year slacking off, working as a bee keeper, honing his guitar skills, and studying the cello before finally starting his Ph.D. work at UC Berkeley with Prof. Dan Stamper-Kurn. Kater focused his interests on general problems in quantum measurement, and performed some of the first studies of position measurement quantum backaction. For a postdoc, he joined Irfan Siddiqi's group to study...

Dan M. Stamper-Kurn came to Berkeley following his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D. 2000) and postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology (1999 – 2001). He is the recipient of the 2000 APS Division of Atomic, Optical and Molecular Physics Outstanding Thesis award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2001 – 2003), the David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering (2002 – 2007), and the Presidential Young Investigator Award in Science and Engineering (2002). He holds the Class of 1936 Second Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences...