Benesch combines native mass spectrometry with mass photometry (developed jointly with Philipp Kukura) and other biophysical methods to determine how proteins, including molecular chaperones, assemble, interact and evolve, integrating single-molecule bioanalytical technologies for proteomics.
Studies the global structure of the Milky Way (bulge, bar, disk, spiral arms) using infrared and radio observations of stars and gas, and the evolution of galaxy groups via radio observations.
Develops cryogenic detector technology for CMB experiments. Directions: (1) TES bolometer array design and fabrication for SPT-3G and CMB-S4; (2) MKID detector development as alternative to TES for next-generation CMB focal planes; (3) low-noise SQUID multiplexed readout for large-format arrays; (4) SPT-3G science: CMB lensing, cluster SZ, B-mode polarization. Argonne joint appointment.
Berengut works on the atomic structure theory underpinning next-generation clocks: highly charged ions, whose optical transitions are both extremely narrow and exceptionally sensitive to variation of fundamental constants and to new physics, and the thorium-229 nuclear clock. He identifies which ionic species and transitions maximise sensitivity to the physics of interest while remaining experimentally accessible, and computes the many-body structure needed to interpret them — work that has directly guided the experimental HCI clock programmes at PTB, MPIK and NIST. Positioned against the established body of NV-ensemble quantum sensing work — DEER, nanoscale NMR and T1 relaxometry protocols operating at pT/sqrt(Hz) field sensitivity — clocks and magnetometers are the two great classes of quantum sensor; his work is on the frequency side of the same estimation problem that fixes pT/sqrt(Hz) performance on the magnetic side. Theory PI with close experimental collaborations.
Bergner performs laboratory rotational spectroscopy and astrochemical kinetics measurements to identify and characterize prebiotic molecules relevant to star- and planet-forming regions, complementing observational spectroscopy of protoplanetary disks. The lab is actively recruiting postdocs.
Berry studies rotary molecular motors, especially the bacterial flagellar motor, using novel forms of light microscopy (laser dark-field microscopy, back-focal-plane laser interferometry, optical and magnetic tweezers) to track sub-micron handles with nanometre and sub-millisecond resolution, revealing how these nanoscale engines are built, controlled and generate torque.
Builds astronomical spectroscopic instrumentation and studies galaxy structure, dynamics, and evolution via integral field spectroscopy (e.g., SDSS-IV MaNGA); leads WIYN telescope instrumentation efforts.
Betzig shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing PALM, a single-molecule localization method that broke the optical diffraction limit, and subsequently invented lattice light-sheet and adaptive-optics microscopy to image subcellular dynamics in living organisms with minimal phototoxicity. His current work, split between Berkeley and Janelia, continues to push the spatial and temporal resolution of live-cell and developmental imaging beyond conventional limits.
Beugnon is one of five permanent members of LKB's Bose-Einstein Condensates team (associated with Jean Dalibard's Atoms and Radiation chair at College de France), studying two-dimensional Bose gases, superfluidity, and box-trapped homogeneous quantum gases as precisely controllable quantum simulators.
Biercuk's Quantum Control Laboratory sits precisely at the intersection of control engineering and precision measurement. The group uses trapped ytterbium ions — including large 2D Penning-trap crystals — as both quantum simulators and as calibrated sensors, and is best known for noise spectroscopy: using the qubit itself as a spectrum analyser of its environment, then designing dynamical-decoupling and open-loop control sequences that null the dominant noise. That programme produced Q-CTRL, his quantum control software company, and more recently a serious push into quantum sensing for navigation (magnetic anomaly navigation, quantum-enhanced RF sensing) as a commercial and defence application. Positioned against the established body of NV-ensemble quantum sensing work — DEER, nanoscale NMR and T1 relaxometry protocols operating at pT/sqrt(Hz) field sensitivity — his filter-function and noise-spectroscopy formalism is now standard equipment in the NV community for designing the DEER and dynamical-decoupling sequences that deliver pT/sqrt(Hz) sensitivity; a candidate from that background would find the theoretical toolkit immediately familiar. Large, well-funded group with strong industry pathways.