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CV in PDF format. A detailed CV is available upon request.

Appointments

  • 2024–present
    Yale University
    Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Physics. Member of the Energy Sciences Institute, the Yale Quantum Institute, the Institute for Foundations of Data Science, and the Wu Tsai Institute. Fellow of Pauli Murray College.
  • 2023–2024
    University of California, San Diego
    Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Postdoctoral training

  • 2022–2023
    Stanford University
    Gordon and Betty Moore Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, and Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. Mentor: Steven A. Kivelson.
  • 2019–2022
    Columbia University
    MRSEC Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of Physics and Chemistry, and Center for Precision Assembly of Superstratic and Superatomic Solids. Mentors: Andrew J. Millis and David R. Reichman.

Education

  • 2019
    Ph.D. in Physics, The University of British Columbia
    Thesis: Peierls Bipolarons and Localization in Solid-State and Molecular Systems. Advisers: Mona Berciu and Roman V. Krems. Part of the doctoral research was carried out at Harvard University with Eugene Demler and Hossein R. Sadeghpour.
  • 2013
    M.Sc. in Chemical Physics, University of Waterloo
    Adviser: Marcel Nooijen.

Honors

  • 2025
    Nevill F. Mott Prize, International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
  • 2024
    Young Investigator Program Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • 2022
    Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University
  • 2022
    Young Investigator Award, Physical Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society
  • 2019–2022
    NSF MRSEC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia University
  • 2017–2018
    ITAMP Visiting Fellowship, Harvard University

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