Changala
Bryan Changala
Bryan Changala received a B.S. in Chemistry and Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013. He completed his Ph.D. in Physics in 2019 in the Ye group at JILA, University of Colorado Boulder, where he applied infrared frequency combs to the spectroscopy of buckminsterfullerene and other complex polyatomic molecules. From 2020 to 2024, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the McCarthy laboratory at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Bryan returned to CU as an Associate JILA Fellow and Asst. Professor of Physics, Adjoint, in January 2025.
The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program supports university-based centers and institutes where the collective efforts of a larger group of individuals can enable transformational advances in the most promising research areas. The program is designed to foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics by providing needed resources such as combinations of talents, skills, disciplines, and/or specialized infrastructure, not usually available to individual investigators or small groups, in an environment in which the collective efforts of the larger group can be shown to be seminal to promoting significant progress in the science and the education of students. PFCs also include creative, substantive activities aimed at enhancing education, broadening participation of traditionally underrepresented groups, and outreach to the scientific community and general public.