The Department of Physics is pleased to welcome Dr. Brian Zhou as an Assistant Professor

The Department of Physics is pleased to welcome Dr. Brian Zhou as an Assistant Professor.  Dr. Zhou earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University working with Dr. Prof. Ali Yazdani and was a Post Doctoral Scholar in David D. Awschalom’s Group at the Institute for Molecular Engineering of the University of Chicago. He is an experimental condensed matter physicist interested in studying new tools using resonant optical fields that manipulate single nitrogen vacancy (NV) center spins with high efficiency and spatial resolution. In his research, Dr. Zhou engineers ‘superadiabatic’ dynamics to overcome conventional speed limits to adiabatic protocols, thereby hybridizing their robustness with speed.