Leibrandt Group

David Leibrandt is a Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UCLA. Prior to moving to UCLA in 2022, he was an Associate Professor Adjoint at the University of Colorado and led the trapped-ion optical atomic clock and precision measurement experiments within the Ion Storage Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, CO. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2009 and his B.S.E. in Engineering Physics from the University of Michigan in 2004. David is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the EFTF Young Scientist Award and the Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award for the development of optical atomic clocks based on quantum-logic spectroscopy of aluminum ions with record fractional inaccuracy below 10^-18. [CV]

Rick Mattish is a postdoc in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UCLA. Rick works on the thorium nuclear clock and the space optical clock experiments.

Chao Feng is a postdoc in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UCLA. Chao works on the polyatomic molecule experiment.

Asad Contractor is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UCLA. Asad works on the thorium nuclear clock experiment.

Stephen Randolph is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UCLA. Stephen works on the space optical clock experiment.

Nick Lackmann is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UCLA. Nick works on the thorium nuclear clock experiment.

Ziwen Li is a student in the Master of Quantum Science and Technology (MQST) program at UCLA. Ziwen works on the polyatomic molecule experiment.

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