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Mara Prentiss 🔗
Professor of Physics, Harvard University 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Prentiss Lab @ Harvard
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Prentiss's group works on cold-atom light-pulse interferometry for compact, potentially fieldable inertial sensors (gravimeters/gyroscopes), alongside a parallel biophysics program using optical tweezers and single-molecule methods to study DNA and cell mechanics. The atom-interferometric sensing work is squarely in the quantum-sensing gravimetry/inertial-navigation tradition alongside cold-atom-gradiometer and atom-chip clock efforts elsewhere in the field.

Created at: July 9, 2026, 2:41 p.m. Updated at: July 9, 2026, 2:41 p.m. Metadata: Profile current as of Jul 2026, Harvard Dept. of Physics faculty page.