Shagam
I am an NRC postdoctoral research associate working on the electron EDM project with Jun Ye and Eric Cornell. I received my PhD from the Weizmann Institue of Science in Rehovot, Israel working in the group of Ed Narevicius. My research there focused on low temperature chemistry and physics with cold molecules using a novel merged molecular beam technique.
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