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Tanya Zelevinsky is an experimental atomic physicist at Columbia University, known for her work with ultracold molecules. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the recipient of the 2019 Francis M. Pipkin Award, "for pioneering research on producing ultracold molecules confined in optical lattices and using them for precision spectroscopy, molecular clock techniques, and tests of fundamental physics."

Educational background
Zelevinsky received her Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2004, working on precision measurements of helium fine structure. She was a Postdoctoral Associate at JILA and the University of Colorado until 2007, where her team developed the optical lattice clock based on fermionic strontium.

Research Focus
At Columbia, Zelevinsky works on high-precision spectroscopy of cold molecules, ultracold chemistry and quantum optics. Her group is also developing molecular lattice clocks.

Awards
The 2019 Francis M. Pipkin Award honors "exceptional research accomplishments by a young scientist in the interdisciplinary area of precision measurement and fundamental constants and to encourage the wide dissemination of the results of that research."