JILA News
MLB Marlins coach and former JILAn, Dr. Aaron Leanhardt, gave the first Life After JILA talk of the fall semester, with a record-breaking turnout for the seminar series. Over 60 JILAns, including PIs, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and undergraduate students, attended Dr. Leanhardt’s talk about his journey from academia to professional baseball.
Dr. Surya Pratap Deopa, Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of JILA Fellow and MCDB Professor Tom Perkins, has been honored with the 2025 BioFrontiers Outstanding Contribution Award.
JILA and NIST Fellow and University of Colorado Boulder physics professor Jun Ye has been awarded a prestigious 2025 AB Nexus seed grant for his pioneering work in quantum sensing technologies.
JILA is delighted to welcome Dr. Taeho Ryu as an Associate Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Nobel Prize winner Eric Cornell honors his friend and colleague, Jun Ye, in the Coloradan.
On Wednesday, May 14th, over 115 students, postdoctoral researchers, staff, research scientists, and principal investigators attended the second Industry Spotlight Seminar, surpassing the record-breaking attendance from the inaugural event in this series the month prior. This seminar, hosted by JAGS, featured two current employees (and former JILAns) from Atom Computing, a Colorado quantum computing company founded in 2018 by JILA alumni and former Ye group member, Dr. Benjamin Bloom.
Former JILA graduate student Olivia Krohn was awarded a distinguished fellowship at Sandia National Laboratories. The prestigious fellowship is a three-year appointment that support independent and groundbreaking research.
Professor Cindy Regal, Baur-SPIE Chair at JILA, has been named a 2025 Brown Investigator by the Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech.
In a thrilling display of scientific communication and creativity, Thi Hoang, a graduate student at JILA, emerged victorious at the inaugural Quantum Science Slam held during the CLEO 2025 conference. This new event, designed to bring cutting-edge science to life for a broader audience, saw participants deliver engaging and entertaining 10-minute presentations on their research.
On April 16th, over 100 graduate students, undergraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, staff, research scientists, and PIs attended the first JILA Association of Graduate Students (JAGS) Industry Spotlight.