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Three CU Boulder Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) researchers were recently recognized along with their research groups at NIST for their outstanding scientific achievements.

“Congratulations to PREP researchers Bakhrom Oripov, Benedikt Hampel, and Saeed Khan for these impressive awards,” said CU PREP Program Manager and Professor Paul Beale. “We’re thrilled to have such remarkable scientists contributing to their fields.” 

2023 Applied Physics Letters Rising Stars Collection 

Each year, Applied Physics Letters (APL) selects outstanding publications by emerging investigators for inclusion in the . This year, two CU PREP participants were recognized in the collection.  

• Bakhrom Oripov, postdoctoral fellow in the Quantum Nanophotonics Group, was recognized in the 2023 APL Rising Stars Collection for the paper “.” Oripov earned his PhD in condensed matter physics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2020 and has been conducting research at NIST through PREP since 2021.   

• Benedikt Hampel, postdoctoral fellow in the Faint Photonics Group, was recognized in the 2023 APL Rising Stars Collection for the paper “.” After earning his PhD in electrical engineering from TU Braunschweig, Germany in 2018, Hampel joined PREP as a postdoctoral associate in 2021. 

2023 NIST Precision Measurement Lab (PML) Distinguished Associate Award 

This award recognizes associates for outstanding contributions to the Precision Measurement Laboratory. 

• Saeed Khan, senior research fellow in the Quantum Nanophotonics Group, received a 2023 NIST PML Distinguished Associate Award in recognition of his group receiving the 2023 Bronze Medal Award. The award citation read “for the monolithic integration of superconducting single-photon detectors with Josephson junctions for advanced computing and single-photon metrology.” Khan earned his PhD from the University of Central Florida and joined PREP in 2018.