PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Mikael P. Backlund
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Member, Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center (IQUIST)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

B.S., University of California, Berkeley, 2010
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2016
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 2016-2020

mikaelb@illinois.edu

GRADUATE STUDENTS

David Durden

B.S., University of Georgia, 2019
ddurden2@illinois.edu

Cheyenne Mitchell

B.S., Bridgewater College, 2019
csm9@illinois.edu

Swastik Hegde

B.Tech., National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surthkal, 2016
M.S., Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, 2019
swastik2@illinois.edu

Lakshmy Priya Ajayakumar

B.S.-M.S., Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, 2020
lpa3@illinois.edu

Armine Dingilian

B. S., B. A., University of California, Berkeley, 2020
armined2@illinois.edu