Stanford University
Physics - Experimental condensed matter physics
2009 - present
Eric Eason began taking college courses at age 11, and at age 13 he enrolled as a full-time student in the College of Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He graduated in May of 2009 with two BS degrees in Applied Math and Engineering Physics. Eric plans to earn a PhD degree and become a professor or research scientist in condensed matter physics. He would like to study advanced materials such as high-temperature superconductors, which are of both theoretical and practical interest.
In 2007, he was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, where he worked on a mercury-ion optical atomic clock and co-authored an article in the European Physical Journal. In 2008, Eric did a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) project at the University of Colorado, where he designed instrumentation for high-bandwidth noise spectroscopy in quantum tunneling junctions. He is currently implementing this instrumentation in a scanning tunneling microscope for his honors thesis project.
Eric has studied classical piano since age 4, and he is a national award-winning composer. He is also an Eagle Scout, and in his spare time he enjoys scuba diving, bicycling, skiing, and robotics.
