Jun Ye
| Jun Ye | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1967 Shanghai, China |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
National Institute of Standards and Technology; JILA; University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Alma mater |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (B.S.); University of New Mexico (M.S.); University of Colorado at Boulder (Ph.D.) |
| Doctoral advisor | John L. Hall |
| Known for | atomic clocks, ultracold molecules, precision spectroscopy, frequency combs |
| Notable awards |
Department of Commerce Gold Medal (2001, 2011, 2014) Arthur S. Flemming Award (2005) Carl Zeiss Research Award (2007) William F. Meggers Award (2007) I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular or Optical Physics (2007) Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2011) Presidential Rank Award (2015) |
Jun Ye (born 1967) is a Chinese-American physicist at JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the University of Colorado at Boulder, working primarily in the field of atomic, molecular and optical physics.
Jun Ye was born in Shanghai, China, shortly after the Cultural Revolution. His father was a naval officer and his mother an environmental scientist. He was primarily raised by his grandmother. Ye graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1989. He then moved to the United States to commence graduate studies, completing a master's degree at the University of New Mexico under Marlan Scully in theoretical quantum optics in 1991. He also gained experience in experimental physics under John McInerney working on semiconductor lasers, and spent a summer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Ye then went to Boulder to begin a Ph.D. in physics. He was accepted as the last graduate student of eventual Nobel Prize laureate John L. Hall. His thesis was on high-resolution and high-sensitivity molecular spectroscopy, which he completed in 1997. He then moved to California Institute of Technology as a Milikan Postdoctoral Fellow, working under Jeff Kimble.
Jun Ye moved back to Boulder and JILA as a JILA Associate Fellow and NIST physicist in 1999. John Hall donated most of his lab space to him. He was promoted to full Fellow in 2001 and has been there since, establishing a research program in AMO physics and precision measurement.
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