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Monika Schleier-Smith, PhD

2005 HERTZ FELLOW

Associate Professor, Stanford University

MAKING HISTORY

Monika Schleier-­Smith is an associate professor in the physics department at Stanford University.

Her research centers on advancing control and understanding of quantum many-body systems through experiments with laser-cooled atoms. Schleier-Smith received her A.B. in Chemistry and Physics, with a minor in Mathematics, from Harvard University. For her Ph.D. research at MIT, she was recognized with a Hertz Foundation Thesis Prize. She subsequently pursued postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian­ University (LMU Munich). She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Career Award and the President’s Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Schleier-Smith serves the Foundation as an Early Career Director.

EDUCATION

Graduate Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Atomic Physics, Molecular Physics, Physics

Graduate Thesis
Cavity-Enabled Spin Squeezing for a Quantum-Enhanced Atomic Clock

Undergraduate Studies
Harvard University

HERTZ RECOGNITION

2011 — Hertz Thesis Prize

SELECTED AWARDS

2021, I.I.Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, American Physical Society
2020, MacArthur Fellow, MacArthur Foundation
2019, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Department of Defense
2014, Sloan Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
2011, Hertz Thesis Prize, Fannie & John Hertz Foundation

 

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