Lawrence W. Cheuk
Princeton University
Citation: For his pioneering experiments on quantum control of molecules with optical tweezers.
Bio: Dr. Lawrence Cheuk is an experimental atomic, molecular and optical physicist at Princeton University. His group’s main interest is in advancing the control of molecules for their use in quantum science. In particular, his group is both interested in developing new techniques to prepare and probe single molecules, and also in using arrays of individually controlled molecules as a new platform for quantum simulation and quantum information processing. Lawrence received his AB degree from Princeton in 2010, and his PhD degree from MIT in 2017, where he worked in the group of Martin Zwierlein on strongly interacting fermi gases and quantum gas microscopy of fermionic atoms. He then moved to Harvard University as a post-doc in the group of John Doyle, where he worked on laser-cooling and optical trapping of molecules. In 2020, he joined the faculty at Princeton. He was a finalist for the Deborah Jin Doctoral Thesis Award and has been honored with the Harvard/Max Planck Quantum Optics Fellowship, the Sloan Fellowship, and the AFOSR Early Career Award.