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Current Group Members:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Charlie Doret
\nPrincipal Investigator and Assoc. Prof. of Physics
\nOffice: Hopper Science 028; (413) 597-2817
\nLab: Hopper Science 003
\nEmail:\u00a0\"\"\u00a0(that’s a 2, not a z)
\nDownload C.V.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Current Students<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Forrest Hu ’26<\/p>\n

Forrest joined the lab in Fall of 2023, now a senior thesis student.\u00a0 He has worked on a wide assortment of projects in optics, electronics, design, and simulations in COMSOL and ZEMAX, and is leading our ongoing quantum simulation efforts with dual-species Ca+<\/sup> \/ Sr+<\/sup> chains.<\/p>\n

\"\"Miles Kodama ’26<\/p>\n

Miles joins the lab in Fall 2025 as a senior thesis student.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Killian Reilly ’27<\/p>\n

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Whitman Horton ’29<\/p>\n

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Alyssandra Wei ’29<\/p>\n

Alyssandra joined the lab in Spring 2025 and has been building an optical assembly for a transfer-cavity-based laser frequency stabilization.<\/p>\n

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Former Thesis Students<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Sam Bishop `25
\n2023-2025<\/h3>\n

Implementing EIT Cooling and Resolved Sideband Thermometry of Ca+<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

PhD Student at MIT<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Bless Bah Awazi `24
\n2021-2024<\/p>\n

Assembly of an Apparatus for Trapping 88<\/sup>Sr+<\/sup> and 40<\/sup>Ca+<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

PhD Student at Duke<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Sonya Dutton `24
\n2022-2024<\/p>\n

Development of a Narrow, Ultrastable Interference Filter-Stabilized External-Cavity Diode Laser for Thermometry of Sr+<\/sup><\/a>
\nM.S. Student at Heidelberg<\/span><\/p>\n

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Da-Yeon Koh `24
\n2023-2024<\/p>\n

Construction of a Stabilized Laser for Cooling Strontium Ions<\/a><\/p>\n

PhD Student at Stanford<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Timothy Chang `23
\n2019-2023<\/p>\n

A Part-per-billion test of King’s Linearity in Ca+<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

PhD Student at Stanford
\nLeRoy Apker Award Finalist<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Renee DePencier Pinero `23<\/p>\n

Towards a Dual-Species Ca+<\/sup>\/Sr+<\/sup> Ion Chain<\/a><\/p>\n

Research Scientist, MIT Lincoln Lab<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Paige Robichaud ’21
\n2019-2021<\/p>\n

A New Ion Trapping System to Study Mesoscopic Heat Transfer<\/a><\/p>\n

PhD Student at Harvard
\nNSF Fellowship Winner<\/span><\/p>\n

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Matthew Roychowdhury ’21
\n2020-2021<\/p>\n

Towards the Precise Measurement of Isotope Shifts in Transitions of non s-state Electrons<\/a><\/p>\n

Research Scientist, MIT Lincoln Lab; PhD Student, UC San Diego<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jacob Lezberg ’20
\n2019-2020<\/p>\n

Towards the Precise Measurements of Isotope Shifts in the\u00a0S1\/2<\/sub> -> D3\/2<\/sub> Transition of 40-42,44,48<\/sup>Ca+<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

Software Engineer, General Dynamics; MSECE student at Purdue<\/span><\/p>\n

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Felix Knollman, ’19
\n2018-2019<\/p>\n

Precision Measurements of Isotope Shifts in the 729 nm E2 Transition of\u00a040-42,44,48<\/sup>Ca+<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

Scientist, Ion Storage Group, NIST Boulder (9\/2019 -8\/2020);
\nPhD student at MIT<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ashay Patel, ’18
\n2017 – 2018<\/p>\n

Towards an Analog Quantum Simulation of<\/a>
\nHeat Transport in a Dual-Species Ion Chain<\/a><\/p>\n

PhD, CalTech<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Sierra Jubin ’17
\n2015-2017
\nImprovements to a System for Trapping 40<\/sup>Ca+<\/sup><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

PhD student in the Plasma Physics Program at Princeton<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Sarah Stevenson ’17
\n2016-2017
\nToward Control of Trapped 40<\/sup>Ca+<\/sup> for Quantum Simulation<\/a><\/p>\n

Scientist, Fiber Sources & Applications Group, NIST Boulder
\nPhD student at CU Boulder (9\/2019 – )
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\"\"Ariel Silbert ’16
\n2015-2016
\nImplementation of an Experimental Setup for Trapping and Cooling 40<\/sup>Ca+<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

MS in Data Analytics, George Washington
\nSenior Specialist at Gartner
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\"\"Cole Meisenhelder ’15
\n2014-2015
\nDesign and Construction of Laser Systems for Trapping and Cooling 40<\/sup>Ca+<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

PhD, Harvard; Scientist at Q-Cat<\/span><\/p>\n

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Additional Group Alumni<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Katie Brockmeyer ’24 Jan. 2023<\/p><\/div>\n

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Katya Ulyanov ’24 Spring 2023<\/p><\/div>\n

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Aidan Ryan `22 2021-2022<\/p><\/div>\n

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Christopher Chung `22 Fall 2018<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kirby Gordon `20 Summer 2017,18<\/p><\/div>\n

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Will Fung ’19 Summer 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

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Iona Binnie ’19 Summer 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ellery Galvin ’18 Summer 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

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Owen Kay ’17 Summer 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

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Elena Polozova `17 Summer 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

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Will Kirby ’17 Summer 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

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John Russell ’16 Winter Study 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

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