Thomas Purdy
Principal Investigator
Email: tpp9@pitt.edu
Office: Allen Hall 210
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh (2019-Present)
Physicist, NIST (2014-2018)
Postdoc, JILA (2010-2014)
Ph.D. Physics, UC Berkeley (2009)
B.S. Physics, Carnegie Mellon University (2002)
Graduate Students
Mihir Khanna
Email: mihir.khanna@pitt.edu
Joined summer 2020
B.S Physics with High Honors, Brandeis University (2018)
Yang Hu
Email: yah52@pitt.edu
Joined summer 2020
B.S. Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (2016)
Angad Gupta
Email: angadgupta@pitt.edu
Joined summer 2020
BS-MS Physics, DST-INSPIRE scholar, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - Kolkata (2018)
Chris Ligato
Email: cjl105@pitt.edu
Joined fall 2021
B.S Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh (2020)
Youssef Tawfik
Email: yot23@pitt.edu
Joined summer 2024
B.S Physics, Zewail City of Science and Technology (2021)
This could be you!
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Alumni
Shan Hao
Former graduate student
Currently at Apple
Hayden Orth
Former undergraduate student
Currently a graduate student at New York University
Jingchen Zhang
Former graduate student
Currently at Joint Quantum Institute (JQI)
Robinjeet Singh
Former postdoc
Currently at NIST Boulder
Chris Ligato
Former undergraduate student
Currently a graduate student in the PurdyLab