Elana Urbach, Ph.D.

THESIS: "Nanoscale Magnetometry with Single Spin Qubits in Diamond"
ADVISOR: Prof. Mikhail Lukin
GRADUATION: November 2021
Kudoboard: https://harvardphysics.kudoboard.com/boards/JV4H1MWP

What is your home town?
Falls Church, VA

What research did you do while at Harvard Physics?
My research focuses on using nitrogen vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond as a tool to magnetically probe the structure and dynamics of different materials on the nanoscale. We have used the NV center to detect single proteins using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and investigated the structure of a 2D material, hexagonal boron nitride, using nuclear quadrupole resonance spectroscopy. We also probed electrons on the diamond surface and the susceptibility of graphene.

What are your plans for the future?
I will be doing a postdoc with Professor Chris Stubbs, working on the Rubin Observatory telescopes!