Naomi Ginsberg

Who is Naomi Ginsberg?

Naomi Shauna Ginsberg, earned her B.A.Sc. in engineering at the University of Toronto in 2000, and completed her PhD in Physics at Harvard. She is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Her initial interest was biomedicine, but she graduated with an electrical engineering focus, and an emphasis on physics and optics. Accepted into Harvard, and whilst in the research group of physics professor Lene Hau, Ginsberg studied Bose-Einstein condensates, ultracold clouds of atoms that exist at temperatures just a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero. In a well documented series of experiments the Hau Group halted and stored a light signal in a condensate of sodium atoms, then transferred the signal into a second sodium cloud 160 µm away. The American Institute of Physics listed this feat as #1 in its Top Ten discoveries of 2007. Ginsberg was the lead author on the paper “Coherent control of optical information with matter wave dynamics,” that appeared on the cover of Nature in February of that year. "Some researchers work for many years to get their first article on the cover of Nature. Ginsberg achieved that honor as a graduate student".