Ana Maria Rey
Khan
I obtained my M.Phil (Electronics) at Quaid-i-Azam university, Pakistan. I further obtained my PhD (Physics) degree under the supervisions of Prof. José Tito Mendonça and Dr. Hugo Tercas in 2021 at Instituto Superior Técnico, university of Lisbon, Portugal. I also worked as a visiting PhD student in the group of Prof. Maciej Lewenstein at ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain.
Xu
I received my B.Sc. in physics and mathematics at the University of British Columbia in 2016 and my M.A. and Ph.D. in physics at University of California at Berkeley in 2021, under the supervision of Prof. Joel E. Moore. I joined Prof. Rey’s group in fall, 2021.
Sundar
I completed my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Erich Mueller at Cornell University in 2017. In my PhD, I developed ideas for quantum simulation of many-body physics —including Majorana fermions, Kondo physics, and quantum dimer models—using ultracold gases. I also modeled the emergence of supersolids in cold atoms trapped in a cavity.
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