Niu
Zhijing Niu
Zhijing joined the group in fall 2021 after graduating from Xi’an Jiaotong University. In the past, she worked on condensed matter experiments with Prof. Mengkun Liu at Stony Brook University as an exchange student. After that, she switched her interest to AMO physics and did a gap year in Prof. John Doyle’s group at Harvard University where she worked on laser cooling ytterbium hydroxide. She did her first year of graduate school remotely in China and worked in Prof. Matthias Weidemüller’s group on Rydberg atoms at USTC. She is currently working on the strontium CW experiment to build an ultra-low linewidth CW superradiant laser.
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