Coherent Atomic Manipulation and Cooling

Alex's academic career to date has spanned a range of disciplines within atomic, molecular and optical physics, including, in order: optical tweezing with nanofibers and dipole trapping of microspheres as an undergraduate in the groups of Phil Jones and Peter Barker at University College London; cold atom interferometry and composite pulses as a graduate in the group of Tim Freegarde at the University of Southampton; and hybrid atom-ion trapping, cold chemistry, and molecular spectroscopy as a post-doc in the group of Eric Hudson at the University of California, Los Angeles.