ROCHESTER SCIENTIFIC - Key Persons

Dr. Brian Patton has been working in the field of experimental atomic physics since 2000. His expertise spans nuclear magnetic resonance, spin-exchange optical pumping, and fundamental and applied atomic magnetometry. He is the author of over a dozen scientific articles, is a contributing author to the reference book Optical Magnetometry, and has co-authored several patents. Dr. Patton is presently affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley and the Technical University of Munich, where he is a member of the collaboration designing a next-generation measurement of the neutron electric dipole moment.

Dr. Simon Rochester has been conducting experimental and theoretical research in AMO physics since 1995, and is an author of over forty scientific papers and the developer of the Atomic Density Matrix package for Mathematica. He also authored-along with Dmitry Budker and University of Latvia Rector Marcis Auzinsh-the atomic physics textbook Optically Polarized Atoms: Understanding Light-Atom Interactions (Oxford University Press, 2010), and is a contributing author to the reference book Optical Magnetometry (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He received his Ph.D. in Physics from U.C. Berkeley.