Dr. Sabrina Leslie

Biography

Sabrina Leslie began her academic training in 1998 at the University of British Columbia, where she immersed herself in the Combined Honours Physics Mathematics Program and was recognized as a Canada Scholar and recipient of the CK Choi Presidential Award. In 2002, she moved to the University of California, Berkeley as an NSERC fellow to pursue her doctoral studies in optical atomic physics under the guidance of Dr. Dan Stamper-Kurn. She pioneered imaging experiments focusing on disorder-to-order transitions in atomic vapours held in optical traps. Her PhD work was published in top journals and provided her with extensive training in instrumentation, imaging, data analysis, and teamwork in a scientific environment.

Research Interests