Shimon Kolkowitz is an atomic physicist and quantum scientist, with his research focusing on quantum sensing, precision measurement, and metrology. Shimon majored in Physics at Stanford University as an undergraduate, graduating in 2008. Shimon earned his Ph.D. in experimental physics at Harvard in 2015, where his research focused on quantum sensing with defects in diamond. He was subsequently a National Research Council (NRC) postdoctoral fellow at JILA/NIST with Professor Jun Ye from 2015-2017, working on precision measurements with optical lattice atomic clocks. This allowed him to confirm that two clocks differing in height by a few millimeters run at different speeds because of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Shimon started his faculty position at UW-Madison in 2018. Shimon is a 2019 Packard Science and Engineering Fellow, a 2022 Sloan Research Fellow, and a recent recipient of the NSF CAREER award.
A word from Mark Eriksson, the John Bardeen Professor of Physics and Chair of Physics:
Shimon Kolkowitz is a worldwide leader in quantum science and technology. He is also one of the kindest and most responsible people you will ever meet. We are extremely lucky to have him.