Martin Zwierlein
Thomas A. Frank Professor of Physics
Division Head, Atomic, Biological, and Condensed Matter Physics
Department of Physics, Center for Ultracold Atoms and Research Laboratory of Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Room 26-255
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-324-4310
zwierlein.AT.mit.edu
Curriculum Vitae | Physics Dept. Bio | Quantum World Video
Biswaroop Mukherjee
Graduate Student – BEC 1: Fermionic Superfluids
Room 26-267
617-324-0500
roop.AT.mit.edu
Matthew Nichols
Graduate Student – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope
Room 26-167
matthewanichols AT gmail.com
Thomas Hartke
Graduate Student – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope
Room 26-167
hartke.AT.mit.edu
Yiqi Ni
Graduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Room 26-265
617-253-6677
yxni.AT.mit.edu
Alexander Yu Chuang
Graduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Room 26-265
617-253-6677
achuang.AT.mit.edu
Carsten Robens
Postdoctoral Associate
Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Room 26-265
617-253-6677
crobens.AT.mit.edu
Richard Fletcher
Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow
Fermi3: Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases
rfletch.AT.mit.edu
Airlia Shaffer-Moag
Graduate Student – Fermi3: Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases
Room 26-267
617-324-0500
airlia.AT.mit.edu
Cedric Wilson
Graduate Student – Fermi3: Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases
Room 26-267
617-324-0500
wilsonc.AT.mit.edu
Parth Patel
Graduate Student – BEC 1: Fermionic Superfluids
Room 26-267
617-324-0500
pbpatel.AT.mit.edu
Zhenjie Yan
Graduate Student – BEC 1: Fermionic Superfluids
Room 26-267
617-324-0500
zhenjie.AT.mit.edu
Zoe Yan
Graduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Room 26-265
617-253-6677
zzyan.AT.mit.edu
Hao Zhang
Postdoctoral Associate – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope
Room 26-267
617-324-0500
htzhang.AT.mit.edu
Ningyuan Jia
Postdoctoral Associate – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope
Room 26-267
617-324-0500
njia4.AT.mit.edu
Lev Kendrick
Undergraduate Student – Fermi3
J. Thatcher Chamberlin
Undergraduate Student – Fermi3
FORMER GROUP MEMBERS
Elmer Guardado-Sanchez
Undergraduate Student – BEC 1: Fermionic Superfluids
PhD student with Waseem Bakr at Princeton
Wenjie Ji
Graduate Student – Theory of Fermionic Superfluids
Working with Xiao-Gang Wen at MIT
Mark Ku
Graduate Student – BEC 1: Fermionic Superfluids
Postdoc at Harvard
Jennifer Schloss
Graduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Graduate Student with Ron Walsworth
Qingyang Wang
Graduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Graduate Student with Susanne Yelin
Waseem Bakr
Postdoctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor at Princeton University
wbakr@princeton.edu
Jordan Goldstein
Undergraduate Student
Peyman Ahmadi
Postdoctoral Fellow 08/2008-12/2011
Research Scientist at Nufern
Caroline Figgatt
Undergraduate Student 01/2008-05/2011
Graduate Student in the group of Chris Monroe, NIST/Maryland
Thomas Gersdorf
Diploma Student (ETH Zürich) 03/2011-02/2012
Diploma Thesis:
A Quantum Gas Microscope for Fermionic Atoms
Sara Campbell
Undergraduate Student 01/2009 – 06/2010
Summer Student 05/2011-07/2011
Senior thesis:
Building an Apparatus for Ultracold Lithium-Potassium Fermi-Fermi Mixtures
Graduate Student in the group of Jun Ye, JILA, Boulder, Colorado
2018 Howard-Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Hanna Gray Fellow
Christoph Clausen
Visiting Student 11/2007 – 08/2008
Graduate Student in the group of Nicolas Gisin, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Pangus Ho
Undergraduate Student 01/2008-05/2008
Kevin Fischer
Undergraduate Student 01/2009 – 12/2009
Graduate Student in the group of Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford, CA
Vinay Ramasesh
Undergraduate Student -05/2012
Master Student 2012-2013
Senior thesis:
Towards a Quantum Gas Microscope for Fermionic Atoms
Master thesis:
Construction of a Fermi Gas Microscope for Fermionic Atoms
Graduate student at Berkely with Irfan Siddiqi
Ibon Santiago
Graduate Student 09/2008-05/2012
Master thesis:
LiNaK: Multi-Species Apparatus for the Study of Ultracold Quantum Degenerate Mixtures
Graduate Student at Oxford University
Julian Struck
Postdoctoral Fellow – BEC 1: Fermionic Superfluids
Junior Research Chair Département de Physique
Ecole Normale Supérieure / PSL Research University, CNRS
Sebastian Will
Research Scientist – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Tarik Yefsah
Postdoctoral Fellow -BEC 1: Fermionic Superfluids
CNRS Permanent Researcher at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
André Schirotzek
Graduate Student 01/2005 – 01/2010
Ph.D. Thesis:
Radio-Frequency Spectroscopy of Ultracold Atomic Fermi Gases
Research Scientist at the Advanced Light Source (ALES)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Scientific Assistant, Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert-Einstein Institute), Berlin
Jacob Sharpe
Undergraduate Student 09/2008 – 08/2009
5 diabolo passing world record holder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_f8gU20oWM
Ariel Sommer
Graduate Student 2007-01/2013
Ph.D. Thesis:
Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases: Non-Equilibrium Dynamics and Dimensional Crossover
Postdoctoral Fellow at U. Chicago (Jon Simon) and MIT (W. Ketterle)
Assistant Professor, Lehigh University
Cheng-Hsun Wu
Graduate Student 2007-01/2013
Ph.D. Thesis:
Strongly Interacting Quantum Mixtures of Ultracold Atoms
Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University
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Zachary Bogorad
Undergraduate Student – BEC 1: Fermionic Superfluids
Lawrence W. Cheuk
Graduate Student – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope
Ph.D. Thesis:
Quantum Gas Microscopy of Strongly Correlated Fermions
Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (Group of John Doyle) (2016-2019)
Assistant Professor at Princeton University (since 2019)
Katherine Lawrence
Graduate Student – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope

Huanqian Loh
Postdoctoral Fellow – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
President’s Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Centre for Quantum Technologies
National University of Singapore
Melih Okan
Graduate Student – Fermi2: Fermi Gas Microscope
Emilio Pace
Undergraduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Jeewoo Park
Graduate Student – Fermi1: Fermionic Dipolar Molecules of NaK
Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Yong-Il Shin at the
Quantum Gas Lab @ Seoul National University