Travis L Nicholson

I am an experimental physicist that works on quantum science with ultracold atoms. I earned my PhD in 2015 from the University of Colorado, and my graduate research was performed at JILA in the group of Jun Ye. There I realized the most accurate atomic clock, which neither gains nor loses a second in 15 billion years. After that I did a postdoc at MIT, studying quantum nonlinear optics with ultracold rubidium. In 2017, I took a position as assistant professor of physics at the National University of Singapore and principal investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies. There I began my research in indium ultracold gases. In 2024 I was recruited to Duke as an assistant professor of physics with a joint appointment in ECE. I am also a principal investigator at the Duke Quantum Center.