Scientific Director of the Quantum Institute at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Malcolm Boshier is leading a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) that develops cold atom quantum technologies. A major direction of this research is harnessing atoms provided by a Bose-Einstein condensate to build a waveguide atom interferometer. Such a device would be extremely sensitive to any interaction that affects the energies of atoms and could be miniaturized to dimensions of just a few millimeters, which might make possible a new generation of ultra-sensitive miniature sensors. He joined LANL in 2002 after an academic career at the University of Sussex and Yale University, following graduate research at Oxford University. Malcolm was elected an APS Fellow in 2014 “For high precision laser spectroscopy of hydrogen and muonium, and for advancing the state of the art in cold atom manipulation.”