JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Office: S166
Office Phone: 303 492-4876
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: coheno@jilau1.colorado.edu
Web page: http://jilawww.colorado.edu/~coheno

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Dr. Oren Cohen joined the group in September 2004. He received his Master and Ph.D. from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. During his Masters Oren studied semiconductor quantum structures while in his Ph.D. he investigated optical spatial solitons. His current interest include high harmonic generation in modulated hollow fibers and EUV imaging.

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Office: S166
Office Phone: 303-492-2942
Lab: C1B15
Lab Phone: 303-735-1594
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: wli@jila.colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Dr. Wen Li was born in Yongjia, a small town in Zhejiang province of China. He graduated with honor as a B.S. from Beijing University, China. In May of 2006, he received his Ph. D. degree of chemistry from Stony Brook University. In his Ph. D. research, he studied the reaction dynamics of photon-matter and matter-matter interactions using high resolution velocity mapping technique. He joined KM group in Aug. 2006 and is currently working on ultrafast molecular dynamics probed with high harmonic generation (HHG) and cold target recoil ion momentum spectroscopy (COLTRIMS).

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Office: S166
Office Phone: 303-492-2942
Lab: C1B15
Lab Phone: 303-735-1594
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: isabell.thomann@colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Isabell Thomann is a graduate student from Speyer, Germany. She studied in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland, where she received her diploma in physics in 2001. After working as a research assistant at NIST on a Cr:Forsterite laser for absolute frequency measurements in the telecommunications region, she joined the KM group in 2003. Her current interest is the phase-stabilization of high-power fs pulses for the generation of as pulses. She very much enjoys the beautiful mountains and the wildlife around Boulder.

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Office: A309
Office Phone: 303-492-7803
Lab B1B19
Lab Phone: 303-492-7764
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: daisy.raymondson@colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Daisy received her B.S. in physics and mathematics from UC Davis in 2001. She worked as a research assistant with the quantum information group at Los Alamos National Laboratory for one year and joined the KM group in the fall of 2002. She is currently working on EUV imaging techniques with Ariel Paul and Richard Sandberg, and building a high-repetition-rate laser amplifier. In her spare time Daisy enjoys fighting crime on the streets under cover of darkness.

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Office: S168
Office Phone: 303-735-4528
Lab: B1B15
Lab Phone: 303-492-7873
Cell Phone: 303-859-3925
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: popmintchev@jila.colorado.edu
Web page: http://jilawww.colorado.edu/~popmintc

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Tenio graduated with Ms.S. in physics, specialization laser physics and quantum electronics, from University of Sofia, Bulgaria in 2002. He is currently working on increasing the flux of high harmonic generation from ions in plasma waveguide using all-optical quasi-phase matching techniques, as well as, on extending the phase matching of high harmonic generation to extremely high photon energies using mid-infrared driving light.

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Office: S168
Office Phone: 303-735-4528
Lab: B1B19
Lab Phone: 303-492-7764
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: miajaavi@colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Luis graduated form ITESM (Monterrey Institute of Technology), Monterrey, Mexico in 2002 with a degree in Engineering Physics. He joined the KM group in the summer of 2003. Currently Luis is working with Tim Lei studying molecular dynamics on metal surfaces.

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Office: S155
Office Phone: 303-492-1638
Lab: B1B19
Lab Phone: 303-492-7764
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: siemens@jila.colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Mark graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 2003 with a B.S. in Engineering Physics. He started graduate school at CU and joined the KM group in 2003 as well. He enjoys watching Denver Broncos games and MacGyver reruns.

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Office: S168
Office Phone: 303-735-4528
Lab: B1B31
Lab Phone: 303-492-7766
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: xibin.zhou@colorado.edu
Web page: http://zhouxibin.googlepages.com/

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Xibin Zhou joined the KM group as a graduate student in May 2004. He is from the east coast of China and received his B.S. degree in Physics from Universtiy of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2003. Now he is working on the generating, shaping and measuring of ultrashort laser pulses.

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Office: S168
Office Phone: 303-735-4528
Lab: B1B19
LabPhone: 303-492-7764
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: sandberr@colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Richard grew up in Loveland, Colorado. After graduating from high school, he spent two years in Ecuador as a missionary. He got his BS in physics from Brigham Young University and started his graduate work in physics at CU in August 2004. At BYU, he studied the optical properties of uranium and thorium as materials for UV and soft X-ray mirrors. He is married to Deanne Saunders and they have a little girl, Karadyn, and they are expecting another girl in July, 2006.

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Office:
Office Phone:
Lab: B1B31
Lab Phone: 303-492-7766
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: robynne.hooper@colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Robynne graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005 receiving a BS in physics. As an undergraduate she studied stimulated Raman scattering in hydrogen. She joined the KM group in 2006.

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Office: S168
Office Phone: 303-735-4528
Lab: B1B19
Lab Phone: 303-492-7764
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: qing.li@colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Qing received her B.S. in physics from USTC (University of Science and Technology of China), China in 2005. She joined the KM group in the summer of 2006. Qing enjoys this peaceful and beautiful city of Boulder.

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Office:
Office Phone:
Lab: B1B19
Lab Phone: 303-492-7764
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: chan.la-o-vorakiat@colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Chan La-o-vorakiat was born in Thailand, which is the same country in which he received the B.S. in physics from Mahidol University, Bangkok.
He started the grad student life in spring 2007 and have been in the group since the
summer of 2007.

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Office: S168
Office Phone: 303-735-4528
Lab: B1B19
Lab Phone: 303-492-7764
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: jing.yin@colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Jing Yin is a graduate from Hefei, China. She got her B.S. from USTC (Univ. of Sci.&Tech. of China, an unforgettable place) in 2006, and joined the KM group in the summer of 2007. Jing is very happy to enjoy the beautiful science as well as the beautiful mountains in Boulder.

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Office: S168
Office Phone: 303-735-4528
Lab: B1B15
Lab Phone: 303-492-7873
Cell Phone: 720-341-6046
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: mingchang@jila.colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Ming-Chan received his B.S. in Physics from NTHU (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) and his M.S. in Electro-Optical Engineering from NCTU (National Chiao Tung University). He joined the KM group as a Ph.D graduate student in 2007. He is interested in pulse measuring, shaping and high harmonic generation from ions in capillary discharge using all-optical phase matching techniques. He is from a very warm and humid city, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The weather there is totally different from Boulder.

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Office: A705
Office Phone: 303-492-6763
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: rachael@colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Rachael works as an assistant to Prof. Margaret Murnane and Prof. Henry Kapteyn. She received her Bacherlor of Arts and Bacherlor of Science degrees from the University of Auckland in 1997. Rachael is from New Zealand and is here with her husband, who completed his doctorate in Applied Mathematics. They recently had a daughter (in Oct 2005).

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Lab: C1B15
Lab Phone: 303-735-1594
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email:

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Emily Gregonis has been working with the KM group as an undergraduate research assistant since September 2006. She is currently studying physics and linguistics at CU. In her free time she enjoys road cycling, reading, and
hiking, along with playing rugby on the CU women's club team.

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Lab: B1B15
Lab Phone: 303-492-7873
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email:

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Adrienne was born and raised in Littleton, Colorado. As a high school student, she is very excited to be working in laser research. She will graduate high school in 2008 and plans to study physics in college. Adrienne joined the KM group in 2006.

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Lab: B1B19
Lab Phone: 303-492-7764
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: alison.ferris@yahoo.com

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Alison joined the KM group in the summer of 2007.  Although Alison is currently a senior at Fairview High School in Boulder, she plans on studying physics or engineering as an undergraduate.  In addition to burning holes with lasers, Alison enjoys playing ultimate frisbee and other outdoor activities.

University of Sofia, JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST

Office:
Office Phone:
Fax: 303-492-5235
Email: christov@jila.colorado.edu
Web page: http://www.phys.uni-sofia.bg/~ipc

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography: Dr. Ivan P. Christov (download vita) is a Professor at the Physics Department, University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Sofia, in 1980 and 1986 respectively. Since 1987 he has been with the Institute of Laser Physics, University of Sofia where he was a Director of the Institute for the period 1993-2000. During 1991-1992 Prof. Christov was a visiting scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany, with an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. Prof. Christov's research has been directed to development of advanced methods for generation and amplification of ultrashort coherent pulses in the visible and UV spectral domains. He currently is developing theoretical models to better understand light-matter interaction in attosecond time scale. Prof. Chrsitov is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

Assistant Professor, University of Arizona

KMLabs Inc.

Vice-President, KMLabs Inc.

Assistant Professor, SUNY Stony Brook

Associate Professor, Colorado State University

Associate Professor, Kansas State University

Associate Professor, Colorado School of Mines

Boston University

NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, JILA

JILA, Research Associate

Research Scientist, University of Colorado at Boulder

Associate Professor, Brigham Young University

Vice-President, KM Labs Inc.

Chair, Physics Department, Hamline University

University of Colorado at Denver

University of Kiel, Germany

Associate Professor, Institute of Physics of Sao Carlos, Brazil

Laser Scientist, KMLabs Inc.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford University

Nomadics Inc.

Research Scientist, Max Plank Institute, Garching

SEMATECH

Raydiance Inc.

Group Leader, Spectra Physics Lasers

Group Leader, Spectra Physics Lasers

New Wave Inc.

Northrop Grumman Space Technology

CTI Laser Inc. (Lockheed)

CTI Laser Inc. (Lockheed)

TRW