email: bernien[at]uchicago.edu
office: (773) 834-6098
Short CV:
Academic Employment
| 2019- | University of Chicago, PME, Assistant Professor |
| 2015-2019 | Harvard, Postdoctoral Fellow, PI: Mikhail Lukin |
| 2014-2015 | QuTech, Delft. Postdoctoral fellow, PI: Ronald Hanson |
Education
| 2010-2014 | Technical University Delft, The Netherlands PhD physics (cum laude). Advisor: R. Hanson |
| 2009 | Seoul National University, South Korea Research intern. Advisor: Dai-Sik Kim |
| 2003-2009 | Hannover University, Germany MSc physics. Thesis Advisor: M. Oestreich |
| 2006-2007 | Beijing University, China |
Awards and scholarships
| 2023 | Klung Wilhelmy Science Award |
| 2023 | NSF Career Award |
| 2023, 2022, 2021 | Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher |
| 2022 | New Horizons in Physics Prize |
| 2021 | Sloan Research Fellowship |
| 2020 | International Quantum Technology Young Scientist Award |
| 2016 | Kavli Publication Prize, biennial award given to the best publication |
| 2015 | The Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper award |
| 2015 | Kavli PhD Thesis Prize, biennial award given to the best PhD thesis |
| 2015 | Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellowship, NWO |
| 2013 | 1st place: Young Speakers contest of the Dutch Physical Society NNV |
| 2013 | FOM Film challenge 2012, best outreach film |
| 2012 | Best PhD Candidate Award, Universiteitsfonds Delft |
| 2012 | Elsevier Diamond and Carbon Materials Young Scholar Prize |
| 2009 | DAAD-KOSEF scholarship: “Korean Summer Institute Program” |