Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Margaret Murnane
Dr. Margaret Murnane is a Fellow at JILA and a member of the Department of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado. She received her B.S and M.S. degrees from University College Cork, Ireland, and her Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of California…
Henry Kapteyn
Dr. Henry C. Kapteyn has been a Professor at the Department of Physics and a Fellow of JILA, at the University of Colorado since 1999. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at the University of Michigan, and an Assistant…
Senior Scientist
Michaël Hemmer
Michaël graduated with a Masters degree in engineering from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille (France). He graduated with a PhD in Optics in 2011 from the University of Central Florida working on the development of ultrafast nonlinear amplifiers for high field physics…
Chen-Ting Liao
Ting is originally from Taiwan, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Space Science and Master of Science degree in physics. After working in the semiconductor and x-ray industries for two years, he came to the US to study optics. Ting received his PhD…
Research Associate
Albert Beardo
Albert comes from Barcelona, Spain, and received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2021. During his doctoral training, he worked on combining formal nonequilibrium thermodynamics and kinetic theory to develop nanoscale…
Shunye Gao
Tika Kafle
I grew up in Jhapa, Nepal. After doing my BS and MS in physics from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, in 2012, I enjoyed teaching undergraduate physics course until I moved to University of Kansas to pursue my PhD in August 2014. During my PhD, I worked with Prof. Wai-Lun Chan focusing my work on…
Joshua Knobloch
Joshua spent his childhood living and working on a family farm in rural Illinois. In the fall of 2010, he enrolled at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana; in addition to classes, he worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant for the beginning physics courses, and he designed and…
Na Li
Michael Tanksalvala
Honors & Awards
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NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022)
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R&D100 Award (2019)
Graduate Student
Iona Binnie
Iona grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. She attended Williams College, where she worked under professor Catherine Kealhofer to construct an ultrafast electron diffraction system for the study of dynamic processes in materials. She graduated magna cum laude in 2019 with a bachelor's degree in…
Theodore Culman
Eric Fang
Grzegorz Golba
Anna (Anya) Grafov
Anya grew up in Maryland, and graduated from the University of Maryland with High Honors in Physics in 2020. As an undergraduate, she conducted research on the optical properties of noble-metal nanostructures, and also contributed to projects in plasma physics. Anya began her PhD studies in…
Will Hettel
Will grew up in Half Moon Bay, California. While pursuing a B.S. in Physics at UC Santa Barbara, he began his optics career as an intern at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. There he studied high-temperature superconductors with optical pump-probe, synchrotron, and…
Nicholas Jenkins
Clay Klein
Clay grew up in southwest Pennsylvania and received a B.S. in Physics with a minor in Mathematics from Clarion University of Pennsylvania in 2022. As an undergraduate, he worked on a variety of research projects including developing aerogels for thermal insulation on high speed…
Rachel Larsen
Yunhao Li
Jiayi Liu
Brendan McBennett
Brendan grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and studied mathematics and German as an undergraduate at UNC Chapel Hill. After spending a year as an exchange student at the University of Ulm in southern Germany, he became interested in renewable energy integration into electric power systems. He…
Drew Morrill
Drew grew up in the Pacific Northwestern corner of Washington State. He graduated from Brown University in 2013 with a degree in chemical physics, and joined the CU Boulder physics Ph.D. program in the summer of 2016. In the interim three years, he worked as a research assistant at the Max-Born-…
Emma Nelson
Sinéad Ryan
Sinéad grew up in Aberdeen, Scotland. She graduated from the University of St. Andrews with a first class honours MPhys in experimental physics in 2018. As an undergraduate, she worked on projects in the fields of synthetic optics, cold atoms and Kerr lens modelocked laser design. In 2017,…
Richa Sapkota
Oliver Shao
Benjamin Shearer
Jeremy Thurston
Honors & Awards
- NSF Graduate Fellowship