Kayleigh Cassella (’11) was the first of our graduates to receive an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which she used while working toward her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley.
She obtained her doctorate, also in physics, in 2018 and has continued to live and work in Berkeley subsequently. First she spent two years doing a postdoc with Prof. Dan Stamper-Kurn on E8 (experiment-8), and she is now a professional Quantum Engineer for Atom Computing Inc.
She was recently featured in The Quantum Daily in their listing of “52 Wonder Women Working In Industry As Quantum Scientists & Engineers” — check it out (she’s #10)!
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