Schäfer
Vera M. Schäfer
Vera was a postdoctoral research associate working on realising a continuous-wave superradiant laser using Strontium atoms in a high finesse ring cavity. She joined the lab in 2021 coming from the University of Oxford where she was working on trapped ion quantum computing. She is currently a Junior Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg where she is developing precision spectroscopy of single trapped highly-charged ions.
Email
vera.schaefer@mpi-hd.mpg.de
Period With Group
2020 to 2022
Affiliation After Leaving Group
Junior Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
Current Affiliation
Junior Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
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