Zoe joined the group in Spring 2025. She is majoring in Physics and Chemistry. She is excited to be introduced to the research process and learn more about lasers! 

Congratulations to Minhal and Sophie for passing their preliminary exams! They have been awarded their MS, as well as achieved dissertator status!

Congratulations to Mikaela for submitting her graduate school applications! We wish you all the best in the next chapter!

Mace spent the Summer and Fall semesters working with post doc, Varun, on the XFAST instrument. Thank you so much for your contributions and good luck with the next steps, Mace!

Congratulations to Zain for passing her preliminary exam! She has been awarded her MS, as well as achieved dissertator status!

This year the Bergmann Group went to UW Trout Lake Station for the group retreat. Each day was filled with scientific talks with some fun outdoor exploration sprinkled in between!

Sophie attended the Ultrafast X-ray Summer School at SLAC. Her group won first prize in the mock proposal poster competition. Congrats!

Additionally, Sophie was interviewed about the summer school in the following article: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2024-06-28-training-next-generation-ultrafast-x-ray-scientists 

BBQ dinner break during the XRF imaging beam time on early prints at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource with Susan Bates Schlotterbeck (right) from the Marriott Library, Utah.

Mace is a first-year physics graduate student, and they graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2022 with a degree in physics. Here in Bergmann group, they will be working on the X-FAST project. Welcome Mace, we are looking forward to working with you!

Muneeza gives her final presentation as an undergraduate at UW – Madison before she heads off to the University of Chicago for graduate school. Congratulations Muneeza!