Prof. David Patterson earned his PhD at Harvard University. After running a small group at Harvard, he joined the UCSB physics faculty in fall 2017. When not in the lab, he can be found in the nearest machine shop, or enjoying the outdoors almost any way possible.
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Postdocs and project scientists
Aaron Calvin earned his PhD at Georgia Tech. Aaron joined in summer 2018 and brings his extensive ion trapping experience and good cheer to the lab.
Lincoln Satterthwaite knows our microwave spectrometer inside out. Previously a lab tech in the group, he joined as a grad student in the fall of 2019 to build the supercell. Now, Lincoln works as a project scientist for the group while also managing the Physics Department machine shop.
Graduate students
Merrell Brzeczek joined the group in fall of 2021 and works on the ion trap in collaboration with Prof. Andrew Jayich’s group.
Samuel Kresch works on the ion trap. Joining the group initially as an undergraduate in the winter of 2022 he has stayed on the team for his doctoral studies.
Undergraduate students
- Desi Hawkins – Works on the microwave experiment.
Former researchers
Postdocs:
- Mariyam Fatima – Visiting postdoc from Cologne, Germany.
Graduate Students:
- Zeyun Peng
- Worked on the ion trap.
- Scott Eierman
- Worked on the ion trap and now works as an engineer for ASML in San Diego.
- Greta Koumarianou
- Worked on the microwave spectroscopy experiment. Now is working on making fusion energy in Irvine.
Undergraduate Students:
- Elijah Lane
- Daniel Sorensen – Now a PhD Student at CU Boulder / NIST
- Ben Riley – Now a PhD Student at Columbia
- Yael Brynjegard-Bialik – Now a PhD Student U of Arizona
- Billy Murphy – Now a Software Engineer
- Tristan Richmond
- RJ Sedlik – Now a PhD Student at UCSD
- Irene Wang – Now an Operator at SLAC
- Jerry Yan
- Ce Pei
- Simon Gan – Now a Software Engineer at Amazon
- Lia Yeh – Now a PhD Student at Oxford
- Luca Scharrer – Now a PhD Student at UChicago
- Matthew Capocci
- Kaelin Spencer – Now a Project Engineer at Experior Labs
- Dylan Finestone – Now a Scientist at HRL Laboratories
- Devin Thatcher – Now a PhD Student at Berkeley
Lab Technicians:
- James Stadler
