# People ## MPQ Principal Investigators Please visit our partner institution's [website](https://www.mph-quantum.mpg.de/3892/Principal-Investigators) for a full list of Principal Investigators associated with the Center. Sort & Filters close ## Filters Roles expand\_more - Leadership (2) - Harvard Principal Investigators (6) - Postdoctoral Fellows (5) - Administrators (1) - Alumni (2) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 14 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Last Name A-ZLast Name Z-A sort list grid\_view ## 14 results [### William Cairncross ](/people/william-cairncross) Will Cairncross did his PhD at JILA under the supervision of Eric Cornell and Jun Ye, applying techniques from quantum optics to test fundamental symmetries through a precision measurement of the electron’s electric dipole moment with molecular ions. At... ![Will Cairncross](/sites/g/files/omnuum7841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mphqoc/files/will_cairncross.jpeg?itok=_r1NWzvT) [### Lawrence Cheuk ](/people/lawrence-cheuk)Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck/Harvard Research Center for Quantum Optics person [### Eugene Demler ](/people/eugene-demler-0) Professor of Physics, Harvard University nteractions and correlations in condensed matter systems often manifest themselves in striking and novel properties of the materials. Many examples can be found among superconductors and superfluids, quantum magnets, integer and fractional quantum Hall... ![demler_photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum7841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mphqoc/files/demler.png?itok=L4gexK5R) [### John Doyle ](/people/john-doyle) Henry S. Silsbee Professor of Physics John Doyle's research centers on using cold molecules for science ranging from bio-analysis to particle physics to quantum information. His group studies fundamental collisional processes in atoms and molecules and develop tools to achieve full quantum... ![John Doyle](/sites/g/files/omnuum7841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mphqoc/files/doyle_john014r_cropped_0.jpg?itok=V8Q5vAZA) [### Xun Gao ](/people/xun-gao-0) Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck/Harvard Research Center for Quantum Optics Dr . Xun Gao finished his PhD with Prof. Luming Duan at Tsinghua University in 2018. His research interests include quantum machine learning, application and computational power of near-term quantum computer and tensor network method. ![Xun_Gao_headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum7841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mphqoc/files/unknown.jpeg?itok=0S3AomiE) [### Markus Greiner ](/people/markus-greiner) Co-Director, Max Planck/Harvard Research Center for Quantum Optics George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics Markus Greiner's research is focused on experiments with ultracold atoms, in which strongly correlated many-body quantum systems can be experimentally realized in a well controlled way. This opens the door for studying fundamental questions of modern... ![mgreiner.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum7841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mphqoc/files/mgreiner_1.jpeg?itok=4cT6iqXK) [### David Grimes ](/people/david-grimes-0)Postdoctoral Fellow, Ni group person [### Martin Lebrat ](/people/martin-lebrat) Martin Lebrat did his PhD at ETH Zurich under the supervision of Tilman Esslinger, studying the transport properties of ultracold lithium-6 atoms in mesoscopic devices. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Greiner group working on the quantum gas... person [### Mikhail Lukin ](/people/mikhail-lukin) George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, Harvard University Mikhail Lukin received the Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University in 1998. He has been a Professor of Physics at Harvard since 2004, where he is currently a co-Director of Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms. His research interests include quantum... ![lukin_photo.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum7841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mphqoc/files/lukin_photo.jpeg?itok=rrIR4XYc) [### Kang-Kuen Ni ](/people/kang-kuen-ni) Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics, Harvard University The Ni research group is working to create molecules at the lowest possible temperatures, and to study their chemical reactions and physical interactions. At such ultra-cold temperatures, quantum mechanics describes all aspects of the molecules: their... ![Ni_photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum7841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mphqoc/files/kang-kuenniheadshot_1.jpg?itok=7gmOrmJy) [### Clare Ploucha ](/people/clare-ploucha) Administrative Program Manager, Max Planck/Harvard Research Center for Quantum Optics ![Clare Ploucha](/sites/g/files/omnuum7841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mphqoc/files/rsz_30_clare_ploucha_copy.jpg?itok=wIn-WLZa) [### Giulia Semeghini ](/people/giulia-semeghini)Postdoctoral Fellow, Lukin Group Giulia Semeghini did her PhD at LENS (European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy) in Florence under the supervision of Giovanni Modugno, studying the effects of disorder on the transport of quantum particles. She continued to work at LENS as a... ![Giulia Semeghini](/sites/g/files/omnuum7841/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mphqoc/files/giulia_semeghini.png?itok=LQAENwlf) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")