Elizabeth Goldschmidt

Elizabeth Goldschmidt is an experimental physicist and Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on quantum optics and quantum information.
Education
Goldschmidt received her bachelors in physics from Harvard University in 2006 before joining a public policy think tank in Washington, DC for a year. She then attended a physics graduate program at the University of Maryland. In 2013, Goldschmidt obtained her doctorate in physics as a Joint Quantum Institute fellow under advisor Alan Migdall, publishing her thesis entitled "Non-classical light for quantum information."
Career and research
Upon leaving the University of Maryland, Goldschmidt worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), studying ultracold and Rydberg excited atoms in optical lattices for quantum simulation. Following her time at NIST she joined the United States Army Research Laboratory, headquartered in Maryland, to continue her work on quantum optics in solid-state systems. Goldschmidt has authored numerous articles within the field of quantum information, including the 2018/19 Nature publication "A topological source of quantum light.
In early 2022, Goldschmidt was recognized for her excellence in both research and education with the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award. This award supports a project titled "Dynamically Reconfigurable Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Solid-State Quantum Emitters." A major goal of this project is to use rare-earth mirrors to create optical cavities, within which light-matter interactions can be investigated. In addition, Goldschmidt is designing and implementing a mentorship program for the Open Quantum Initiative Fellowship. This undergraduate fellowship will promote diversity within physics by targeting historically underrepresented groups, with the first recipients beginning research in summer 2022.<ref name=":2" />

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