Nick Hutzler

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University, Physics, 2014

A.M., Harvard University, Physics, 2009

B.S., California Institute of Technology, Mathematics, 2007

La Crosse Central High School, La Crosse, WI, 2003


Positions

California Institute of Technology, Physics Department
Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy (PMA)

2017 – Assistant Professor
2017 Visiting Associate

Harvard University, Physics Department

2014 – 2017 Harvard Quantum Optics Center Prize Postdoctoral Fellow
2007 – 2014 Graduate Research Assistant

California Institute of Technology

2007 Research Technician
2006 Victor Neher SURF Fellow
2005 Arthur R. Adams SURF Fellow
2005 – 2007 Undergraduate Research Assistant
2004 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow (SURF)

Previous Research

2014 – 2017 Assembling ultracold polar molecules for quantum simulation and information
Kang-Kuen Ni, Harvard University and Harvard/MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA)

2014 Laser slowing and cooling of atoms and molecules from a cryogenic buffer gas beam source
John M. Doyle, Harvard University and Harvard/MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA)

2007 – 2013 ACME electron electric dipole moment search
John M. Doyle, Harvard University and ACME Collaboration

2005 – 2007 Coils and shielding for the SNS neutron electric dipole moment search
Brad Filippone, California Institute of Technology

2004 Characterization of cryogenic inductor core materials for low-noise, space-based electronics
Talso C. P. Chui, California Institute of Technology and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Teaching

2021, Spring
2020, Fall
2020, Spring
2019, Fall
2019, Spring
2019, Winter
2018, Fall
2017, Fall


Topics in Classical Physics - Optics, Ph 106c
Atoms and Photons, Ph 137a
Topics in Classical Physics - Optics, Ph 106c
Atoms and Photons, Ph 137a
Advanced Experimental Physics, Ph 177
Advanced Experimental Physics, Ph 177
Atoms and Photons, Ph 137a
Atomic and Molecular Physics, Ph 103

Teaching Fellowships at Harvard University

2014, 2013 Teaching and Communicating Physics, Physics 302L
2013, 2012 All Physics in 13 Days, Freshman Seminar 23y
2011 Modern Atomic/Molecular/Optical Physics, Physics 165
2009 Quantum Mechanics I, Physics 143a

2013 – 2017 Teaching Consultant, Harvard University Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
2012 – 2013 Departmental Head Teaching Fellow, Harvard Physics Department
2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

Honors and Awards

2021 Sloan Research Fellowship
2019 NSF CAREER Award
2018 NIST Precision Measurement Grant
2014 Harvard Quantum Optics Center Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship
2006 Herbert J. Ryser Scholarship

Other

Board of Directors, Los Angeles Philanthropic Foundation
Board of Directors, Caltech Alumni Association
Member,
Caltech SURF Board
Member-at-Large,
DAMOP GPMFC Executive Committee