Deborah S. Jin

Who is Deborah S. Jin?

Deborah S. Jin is a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology; Professor Adjunct, Department of Physics at the University of Colorado; a fellow of the JILA, a NIST joint laboratory with the University of Colorado. In 2003, Dr. Jin's team at JILA made the first fermionic condensate. She won the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant" in 2003, and in 2004 she was recognized by Scientific American as "Research Leader of the Year". She also was awarded The Franklin Institute's The Franklin Institute Awards 2008 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics. She is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Jin graduated from Princeton University in 1990 and received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1995.

Professor Deborah S. Jin, Fellow of JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards & Technology and the University of Colorado, NIST Fellow and physicist Professor Adjoint Physics Department, University of Colorado, was named the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award Laureate for North America, for her work in ultracold gases of fermions. The award ceremony took place on March 28 at Sorbonne University in Paris, France.