NCNR - Key Persons
Alejandra is a postdoc working on the magtrap experiment. She did her Ph.D. in Jun Ye's group at JILA implementing a magneto-optical trap of neutral diatomic molecules. She has also worked on the room temperature molecular spectroscopy experiment in the Ion Storage group as an NRC postdoc.
Awards
2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Chin-wen Chou, David Hume, David Leibrandt, Dietrich Leibfried, Tara Fortier, Scott Diddams, Alejandra Collopy
Job Titles:
- Electronics Engineer at NIST 's Time
Aidan Montare is an electronics engineer at NIST's Time and Frequency Division in Boulder, Colorado. Aidan works to improve and develop NIST's remote calibration services, and researches new time transfer systems. Aidan is also a member of the Ham Radio Citizen Science Investigation (HamSCI), where she works to make NIST's time and frequency services useful to scientists studying the upper atmospheric and space physics. She is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and an alumni of the Case Amateur Radio Club W8EDU.
Allison Carter is a staff scientist in the Ion Storage Group working on quantum sensing and simulations with large crystals of ions in a Penning trap. She is interested in the use of trapped ions as a quantum information platform and in developing techniques for improving quantum information processing with trapped ions. Before joining NIST, she worked on developing a trapped ion quantum network, with a focus on improving the efficiency of the photonic connections used for establishing entanglement between ions in separate traps. She earned her PhD on this research from the University of Maryland in 2021.
Andrew Ludlow is a physicist and leader of the Neutral Atom Optical Clock Group in the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder. He is also a lecturer and adjoint professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, and a senior investigator in Q-SEnSE. His main research interests include the development of optical atomic clocks, cold atom systems for quantum metrology, ultrastable optical sources and laser interferometry, and the application of these systems to fundamental physics studies and advanced technology. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2008 and a B.S. in Physics from Brigham Young University in 2002. Andrew is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and is the recipient of various awards for his research activity including the APS Pipkin Award, the Arthur S. Flemming Award, the Presidential Early Career Award, the EFTF Young Scientist Award, and the APS DAMOP Thesis Prize.
Andrew Novick has been employed in the Time and Frequency Division since 1998. He began working in the division as a student at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1987 and continued as an associate until becoming a federal employee. He makes onsite measurements and calibrations and also builds and deploys remote measurement systems for time and frequency calibration services.
Andrew also is the Time and Frequency Division Quality Manager, maintaining the division's quality documents.
Archita Hati is an Electronics Engineer and the calibration service leader of the Phase Noise Metrology Group in the Time and Frequency Division. Her research focuses on precision phase and amplitude noise metrology, designing high spectral purity oscillators and frequency synthesizers, and vibration-induced noise metrology. She is currently involved in the design and development of low-noise X-band oscillators, and a new secondary noise standard for phase and amplitude noise calibrations. She is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, and a member of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Commission A and the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium technical committees.
Baruch is a Rothschild postdoctoral fellow working on the cryogenic molecular ions experiment. He got his PhD in 2023 from the Weizmann Institute in Israel investigating scattering resonances in cold molecular collisions. When not in the lab he enjoys hiking with his family and cooking.
Job Titles:
- Division Chief
- Division Safety Representative
Job Titles:
- Division Secretary
- Group Office Manager