Stanford University
Monika Schleier-Smith is an Associate Professor in the Physics Department at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, following undergraduate studies at Harvard University, and subsequently pursued postdoctoral research at the LMU Munich and Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. Her current research centers on advancing optical control of interactions among laser-cooled atoms for applications in quantum simulation, metrology, and computation. She has pioneered approaches to engineering and harnessing entanglement for enhanced sensing; and extended tools of atomic physics towards simulations of condensed-matter physics and quantum gravity. Her honors and awards include the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the I. I. Rabi Prize of the American Physical Society, and an American Physical Society Fellowship.