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Lene Hau 🔗
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Harvard University 🔗
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Email: hau@fas.harvard.edu
Status: unreviewed revisit date: None Application status: none LOR status: not_needed
Department(s)/lab(s): Physics, Applied Physics | Hau Lab @ Harvard
Summary:

Hau is renowned for slowing light to bicycle speed and then stopping and coherently storing optical pulses in a Bose-Einstein condensate via electromagnetically induced transparency; her current program extends this quantum-optics platform to couple light-driven photosynthetic proteins with engineered nanostructures, bridging fundamental photon physics and biophysics.

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 Physics / SEAS Applied Physics pages.