Group Members
A native of Omaha, Nebraska and a squirrel watching enthusiast, when I'm not working on physics, you may find me running or gardening!
Group Leader: Dr. Benjamin P. Nachman
Staff Scientist, Physics Division, Berkeley Lab
Research Affiliate, Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Research Associate, UC Berkeley Department of Physics
Brief Academic History
- Chamberlain Postdoctoral Fellow
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2016-2020 - Research Fellow
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, 2018 - Ph.D. in Physics, minor in Statistics
Stanford University, 2016 - MASt in Applied Mathematics
Cambridge University, 2013
Churchill Scholarship
- B.A. in Physics, Mathematics, Economics
Cornell University, 2012
Current Group Members
Postdocs
Dr. Sascha Diefenbachar
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Aishik Ghosh
UC Irvine / LBNL Postdoc
Dr. Elham Khoda
U. Washington Postdoc(Berkeley Lab visitor)
Dr. Vinicius Mikuni
NESAP Fellow
Dr. Dennis Noll
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Mariel Pettee
Chamberlain Fellow
Dr. Fernando Torales Acosta
Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Students
Kehang Bai
U. Oregon (Visiting)
Alkaid Cheng
U. Wisconsin (Visiting)
Krish Desai
4th year UCB Graduate Student
Matan Grinberg
3rd year UCB Graduate Student
Radha Mastandrea
3rd year UCB Graduate Student
Jingjing Pan
Yale Graduate Student (visiting)Postgraduates
Shahzar Rizvi
UCB Masters Student
Gup Singh
SULI InternUndergraduates
Sulaiman Alvi
UCB Undergraduate
Ming Fong
UCB Undergraduate
Nishank Gite
UCB Undergraduate
Vishnu Sangli
UCB Undergraduate
Sowmya Thanvantri
UCB Undergraduate
Hyunoh Yeo
UCB UndergraduateFormer Members
Graduate Students
Jay Chan
U. Wisconsin Graduate Student (visitor)Fall '22 - Spring '23
Next: LBNL postdoc
Haoxing Du
UCB Graduate StudentRotation, Spring '22 - Fall '22
Next: Redwood Research
Luc LePottier
UCB Graduate StudentRotation, Fall '21 - Spring '22
Yvonne Ng
UC Irvine Graduate Student (visitor)Fall '20 - Spring '21
Next: DESY postdoc
- Pablo Martín [Visitor, Fall 2019] (theory PhD student from Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC)
- Gang Zhang [Visitor, Spring 2019] (experimental PhD student from Tsinghua University)
- Wanyun Su [Visitor, Fall 2018] (experimental PhD student from Shanghai)
- Javier Aparisi Poso [Visitor, Fall 2018] (experimental PhD student from Valencia)
- Fuyue Wang [Visitor, Fall 2016 - Fall 2017] (instrumentation PhD student from Tsinghua University)
- Michela Paganini [Visitor, Fall 2016 - Spring 2019] (experimental PhD student from Yale University)
Post-baccalaureate Interns
Zoe Webb-Mack
SULI Summer '21(Next: post-bach fellow at Barnard)
Ian Lim
SULI/BLUR Fall '17 - Spring '18(Next: Ph.D. student at UC Davis)
Yao Xu
SULI Fall '21Undergraduates
Kees Benkendorfer
Reed Undergraduate ('21)(Next: Ph.D. student at Harvard)
Diana Chamaki
UCB Graduate ('21)(Next: Intern at NASA Ames)
Rebecca Hicks
UCB Undergraduate ('21)(Next: SULI at LANL)
Jason Huang
UCB Graduate ('21)(Next: Ph.D. student at UIUC)
Norman Karr
UCB Undergraduate ('21)
Kasia Krzyzanska
Princeton UndergraduateREU Summer '21
(Next: Masters at Oxford then Ph.D. at Cornell)
Jerry Lai
UCB Undergraduate ('21)(Next: Software Engineer at Roblox)
Ashia Lewis
University of Alabama UndergraduateNERSC Summer Intern '21
Luc LePottier
University of Michigan Graduate ('21)(Next: Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley)
Joshua Lin
UCB Graduate ('20)(Next: Ph.D. student at MIT)
Adi Suresh
UCB Undergraduate ('22)(Next: Ph.D. student at Stanford)
Vikas Ummadisetty
UCB Undergraduate
Jason Wong
UCB Undergraduate- Wyatt Blair [URAP Spring 2019 - Fall 2019]
- Alex Spies [URAP Spring 2018 - Spring 2019]
- Charles Johnson [URAP Fall 2018 - Spring 2019]
- Sam Bright-Thonney [URAP Fall 2017 - 2018]
- Harley Patton [URAP Fall 2016 - 2018]
- Zitong Yang [URAP Fall 2016 - Spring 2017]
- Yitian Chen [URAP Fall 2016 - Spring 2017]