- Education
- 2008 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- 2007 MA, University of California, Berkeley
- 1998 BA, Reed College
- Professional History
- 2013-present Assistant Professor, Washington University
- 2008-2013 Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
- Kater received his B.A. in physics from
Reed College in 2002. After that, he spent a long year
slacking off, working as a bee keeper, honing his guitar
skills, and studying the cello before finally starting his
Ph.D. work at UC Berkeley with Prof. Dan Stamper-Kurn. After
some time studying Bose-Einstein condensation in multiply
connected geometries, Kater focused his interests on general
problems in quantum measurement, and performed some of the
first studies of position measurement quantum
backaction. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2008, Kater continued
work in the Stamper-Kurn group studying a possible super-solid
phase of matter which occurs in spinor-Bose-Einsten
condensates, and constructing a state of the art BEC
apparatus. After a short postdoc in the Stamper-Kurn Group,
Kater joined Irfan Siddiqi's group to study superconducting
quantum circuits, where he continued to study basic questions
in quantum measurement and quantum noise. In 2013, Kater
joined the faculty at Washington University. In 2015 Kater received the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Physics.
An interview with Kater: Wine, Quantum Mechanics and the Nature of Time
Cheating Heisenberg: Feature in Reed Magazine
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