User:Lightmatterchem/sandbox Kang-Kuen Ni

= Kang-Kuen Ni = Kang-Kuen Ni is a Morris Kahn associate professor at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University and a member of the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms.

Early life and education
Ni was raised in Taiwan, and graduated from Hsinchu Experimental High School in 2000. After high school, she moved to the U.S. to attend the University of California Santa Barbara for her B.S. in creative studies. While Ni was an undergraduate, she participated in The University of California Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees (UC LEADS) program, which allowed her to engage in various research projects "from astrophysics and gravitational physics to condensed matter physics." In 2003, under the guidance of Carl Wieman at JILA, Ni began her Ph.D. study in physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she received The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP). She completed her doctoral research in 2009 with the guidance from Deborah S. Jin and Jun Ye. Her doctoral thesis is titled A Quantum Gas of Polar Molecules.

Career
After her doctorate, Ni began working as a Center of Physics of Information postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology, under the leadership of Jeff Kimble. In 2011, she moved back to JILA as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow to work under Eric Cornell. Ni started her independent career in 2013 at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University.

Awards and honors

 * 2019 American Physical Society I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
 * 2018 Department of Energy Young Investigator Award
 * 2018 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
 * 2016 Packard Fellowship for Science and Technology
 * 2015 Beckman Young Investigator Award
 * 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics
 * 2015 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Award
 * 2014 The International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers Outstanding Young Researcher Award (Macronix Prize)
 * 2010 American Physical Society Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Thesis Prize