"My greatest enjoyment came from being able to learn, discuss and tackle problems in an environment where my scientific understanding and development was encouraged. I had a great time working while at the same time had fun with fellow students, postdoctoral researchers and professors."
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Brett Barwick completed his undergraduate degree at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. He earned a Ph.D. with Professor Hermann Batelaan on Coherent Control of Free Electrons. He is now a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at Caltech where he is interested in matter optics, ultrafast laser technology, fundamental quantum mechanics and creating new tools to study the ultrafast dynamical processes that underlie much of chemistry, physics and biology. |
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University of Nebraska – Lincoln Graduate Students have opportunities to learn about physics in interesting places in the U.S. and abroad."I had the great opportunity while at UNL to visit my advisor (Prof. Batelaan) while he was taking a sabbatical at the University of Innsbruck, in Austria. We traveled around to several different universities in both Austria and Germany, where I was able to give a talk, visit exciting research groups, and see the Alps."
Our students gain experience that helps them reach their career goals in a supportive and energizing environment."At UNL there are great opportunities to be involved in fun, interesting and challenging physics research projects. My greatest enjoyment came from being able to learn, discuss and tackle problems in an environment where my scientific understanding and development was encouraged. I had a great time working while at the same time had fun with fellow students, postdoctoral researchers and professors. " The University of Nebraska – Lincoln provides graduate students with broad research experiences that allow them to pursue many different types of opportunities in their next career steps."I am now a postdoc at Caltech in the group of Ahmed Zewail, where I am doing experiments that involve ultrafast electron microscopy. Ultrafast electron microscopy involves the use of a microscope such as a TEM which has been modified with a pulsed source so that the pictures captured with it can be combined to make a "movie" of the ultrafast motion and dynamics of objects which are on the nanometer or smaller scale. My time spent at UNL has given me both the research experience and the physics background which I hope will help me excel in my future endeavors both here at Caltech and hopefully in the future as a professor."
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