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Monika Schleier-Smith is an Associate Professor in the Physics Department at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011, and completed her undergraduate studies with an A.B. in Chemistry & Physics and Mathematics from Harvard University in 2005. Following her doctoral studies, she pursued postdoctoral research at LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. Her current research focuses on advancing optical control of interactions with laser-cooled atoms, applying this work to quantum simulation, metrology, and computation. She has pioneered techniques and ideas for simulating phenomena in condensed matter physics and quantum gravity using tools from atomic physics. Furthermore, she has developed protocols for quantum control and entanglement-enhanced sensing.
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