16 January 2018

Dan Stamper-Kurn is Professor of Physics at the University of California and a Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, both in California, USA. He is an experimentalist who uses ultracold atomic gases to explore fundamental phenomena in condensed-matter physics, atomic physics, and quantum optics. Prof. Stamper-Kurn also chairs the Science Definition Team of the Bose-Einstein Condensation Cold Atom Laboratory (BECCAL), a joint mission of the German (DLR) and American (NASA) space agencies that aims to operate a quantum gas experiment aboard the International Space Station.