Current Group Members:
Charlie Doret
Principal Investigator and Assoc. Prof. of Physics
Office: Hopper Science 028; (413) 597-2817
Lab: Hopper Science 003
Email: (that’s a 2, not a z)
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Bless Bah Awazi `24
Senior Thesis Student
Bless joined the lab during Summer 2021, and has worked on electronics, optics, and vacuum projects.
Sonya Dutton `24
Senior Thesis Student
After a summer spent in Kate Jensen’s lab, Sonya joined the Doret group in Summer 2022, where she is building an interference filter stabilized diode laser for driving the Sr+ optical qubit.
Da-Yeon Koh `24
Senior Thesis Student
Da-Yeon joined the lab in Summer 2023, where she has been working on rebuilding the Ca+ optics setup to implement EIT cooling of Ca+.
Sam Bishop `25
Research Associate
Sam joined the lab for Winter Study 2023, and has been working on the Ca+ optics setup and Sr+ lasers.
Former Thesis Students
Timothy Chang `23
2019-2023
A Part-per-billion test of King’s Linearity in Ca+
PhD Student at Stanford
LeRoy Apker Award Finalist
Renee DePencier Pinero `23
Towards a Dual-Species Ca+/Sr+ Ion Chain
Research Scientist, MIT Lincoln Lab
Paige Robichaud ’21
2019-2021
A New Ion Trapping System to Study Mesoscopic Heat Transfer
PhD Student at Harvard
Matthew Roychowdhury ’21
2020-2021
Towards the Precise Measurement of Isotope Shifts in Transitions of non s-state Electrons
Research Scientist, MIT Lincoln Lab
Jacob Lezberg ’20
2019-2020
Towards the Precise Measurements of Isotope Shifts in the S1/2 -> D3/2 Transition of 40-42,44,48Ca+
Software Engineer, General Dynamics; MSECE student at Purdue
Felix Knollman, ’19
2018-2019
Precision Measurements of Isotope Shifts in the 729 nm E2 Transition of 40-42,44,48Ca+
Scientist, Ion Storage Group, NIST Boulder (9/2019 -8/2020)
PhD student at MIT
Ashay Patel, ’18
2017 – 2018
Towards an Analog Quantum Simulation of
Heat Transport in a Dual-Species Ion Chain
PhD student at CalTech
Sierra Jubin ’17
2015-2017
Improvements to a System for Trapping 40Ca+
PhD student in the Plasma Physics Program at Princeton
Sarah Stevenson ’17
2016-2017
Toward Control of Trapped 40Ca+ for Quantum Simulation
Scientist, Fiber Sources & Applications Group, NIST Boulder
PhD student at CU Boulder (9/2019 – )
Ariel Silbert ’16
2015-2016
Implementation of an Experimental Setup for Trapping and Cooling 40Ca+
MS in Data Analytics, George Washington
Senior Specialist at Gartner
Cole Meisenhelder ’15
2014-2015
Design and Construction of Laser Systems for Trapping and Cooling 40Ca+
PhD, Harvard; Scientist at Q-Cat
Additional Group Alumni
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Aidan Ryan `22 2021-2022
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Christopher Chung `22 Fall 2018
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Kirby Gordon `20 Summer 2017,18
![](https://sites.williams.edu/ion/files/2017/12/William-Fung-150x150-e1594230544703.jpg)
Will Fung ’19 Summer 2016
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Owen Kay ’17 Summer 2015
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Elena Polozova `17 Summer 2015
![](https://sites.williams.edu/ion/files/2017/12/Kirby-William1-150x150-e1655847848496.jpg)
Will Kirby ’17 Summer 2014
![](https://sites.williams.edu/ion/files/2017/12/John_Russell-e1655847865417-208x300.jpg)
John Russell ’16 Winter Study 2015