Emily Davis

Emily Davis is a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, Berkeley.

After graduating from MIT with bachelor’s degrees in physics, electrical engineering and computer science, Emily worked for a year in Immanuel Bloch’s quantum physics lab in Munich, Germany. She then pursued her PhD at Stanford University with Hertz Fellow Monika Schleier-Smith. She built a cavity QED experiment to study nonlocal spin dynamics. Emily’s work sought to understand the degree of entanglement and to maximize it for improved sensitivity to an electro-magnetic field. Potential applications could create more nuanced MRIs, and better mapping of electrical currents created by brain activity, and more sensitive measurements of geomagnetic fields for earthquake prediction.

Emily is now a postdoc at Berkeley in the Yao group studying many-body physics and magnetometry using nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond.