Senior Research Scientist at Stanford and the Lead Instrument Scientist of the MAGIS-100 detector at Fermilab
Jan Rudolph (He/Him) is a Senior Research Scientist at Stanford and the Lead Instrument Scientist of the MAGIS-100 detector at Fermilab.
Previously, he worked on building a compact quantum sensor for microgravity applications within the QUANTUS/MAIUS collaboration. This machine has been dropped and catapulted over 500 times in the Bremen Droptower and has collimated a cloud of rubidium atoms to the lowest effective temperature ever created in a lab environment. It serves as a design template for rocket mission payloads and the future BECCAL experiment on the ISS.
Jan joined the Hogan Lab to design, build, and operate a 10m-scale clock gradiometer with strontium atoms for tests of fundamental physics. This instrument is the prototype for the 100m-baseline detector MAGIS-100 now under construction at Fermilab. His current research focus is clock atom interferometry and large momentum transfer atom optics.