Ania Bleszynski Jayich, Ph.D.

Ania Bleszynski Jayich received her Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 2006 and her B.S. in physics and mathematical and computational science from Stanford University in 2000. Under the supervision of Professor Bob Westervelt, her thesis focused on scanned probe imaging of electron flow in semiconductor nanostructures. As a postdoc in Professor Jack Harris’s group at Yale University, she worked on magnetization measurements of condensed matter systems using ultrasensitive micromechanical detectors. Before joining UC Santa Barbara as an assistant professor in 2010, she worked on coupling nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond to nanomechanical resonators, in a project co-supervised by professors Misha Lukin at Harvard University and Jack Harris.