Postdoctoral Opportunities

The Laser Cooling and Trapping group welcomes applicants to the National Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. We have had a long tradition of NRC Post Docs in our group.

Current NRC Post Docs:

Alice Crawford

Ken O'Hara

Joseph Reiner

Ian Spielman

Jennifer Strabley

Former NRC Post Docs:

Benjamin Davies, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI

Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico

Fredrik Fatemi, Naval Research Laboratory

Michael Gatzke, McKinsey and Co.

Steve Gensemer, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

Lori Goldner, NIST

Phil

Gould, University of Connecticut

Kris Helmerson, NIST

Thomas Killian, Rice University

William Klipstein, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

John Lawall, NIST

Michael Lim, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ

Laura Lising, University of Maryland

Robert Lutwak, FTS, Inc.

Alan Migdall, NIST

Krista Mullman, Nicolet Instrument Corporation, Madison, WI

Steven Peil, U.S. Naval Observatory

John Prodan, Lockheed

Jacob Roberts, Colorado State University

Laura Ratliff, NIST

Jesse Simsarian, Lucent Technologies

Aephraim Steinberg, University of Toronto

Carol Tanner, University of Notre Dame

Mark Wagshul, S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook

Richard Watts, NIST

Chris Westbrook, Institut d'Optique, Orsay

Jonathan Weinstein, Guest Researcher, NIST

Keep in mind that the application deadline is February 1 for a position that starts any time between the following July and January, so you need to plan ahead! You must have completed all the requirements for your Ph.D. by the time you start your Post Doc.

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The application materials are available from the National Research Council. There are five different research opportunities within the program for our group:

1. Bose Einstein Condensation [K. Helmerson, W.D. Phillips]
2. Laser Cooling of Neutral Atoms [W.D. Phillips]
3. Optical Tweezers [K. Helmerson]
4. Quantum Information and Quantum Optics [W.D. Phillips, K. Helmerson, P.D. Lett, J. Porto]
5. Ultracold Collisions [P.D. Lett]

If you are interested in applying after visiting the NRC site, contact one of the group members for further discussions. Note that the NRC program is for U.S. citizens only. Our group has also had many foreign Post Docs, including five Alexander von Humboldt fellows. We welcome inquiries from abroad as well.