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Kang-Kuen Ni 🔗
Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, Harvard University 🔗
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Email: ni@chemistry.harvard.edu
Status: unreviewed revisit date: None Application status: none LOR status: not_needed
Department(s)/lab(s): Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Physics | Ni Group @ Harvard
Summary:

Ni's group creates and controls individual molecules at the lowest achievable temperatures, using optical tweezers to study state-resolved ultracold chemical reactions and quantum effects in molecular collisions. Included here as a borderline precision-measurement/quantum-sensing platform (ultracold polar molecules), analogous to the eEDM/ultracold-molecule work elsewhere in the department, though her core emphasis is chemical reaction dynamics rather than device sensing.

Created at: July 9, 2026, 2:41 p.m. Updated at: July 9, 2026, 2:41 p.m. Metadata: Profile current as of Jul 2026, Harvard Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology page.