Carrie received her PhD in physics in 2018 from JILA at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her PhD work with Prof Dana Z. Anderson was on the development and implementation of shaken lattice interferometry wherein one builds an interferometric sensor with ultracold atoms trapped in a phase-modulated optical lattice. From Boulder, she moved to Aarhus, Denmark, where she worked with Prof Jacob Sherson on a variety of things, including the rebuilding of a quantum gas microscopy system and the demonstration of three-dimensional atom localization to within a single cubic lattice site in that system. She has also worked on various projects in quantum control as well as the development and implementation of various tools for quantum education and outreach.

Carrie comes to Bristol with the ultimate goal of developing a quantum gas microscope with two orthogonal axes of high-resolution imaging for use in quantum simulation, but she plans to start with an ultracold atom setup that will be used (among other things) to study robust quantum control. Given the photonics community at Bristol, she is also extremely interested in studying how quantum control and simulation is currently applied (and can be extended) in such setups, as well as any potential interfaces between the cold atoms and photonics worlds.