Jon Kindem

Jon Kindem has worked for five different companies, beginning with Reed College in 2011. At Reed College, they were a Tutor and Grader for the Physics Department, tutoring groups of students in Freshmen and Sophomore-level physics and grading problem sets for the junior-level electrodynamics course, sophomore-level modern physics course, and the introductory general physics course.

In 2012, Jon Kindem was a Summer Research Intern at the National Institutes of Health, working with Dr. Justin Taraska in the Lab of Molecular and Cellular Imaging at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Jon developed methods to quantitatively map the localization of proteins to endocytic and exocytic sites within cells using evanescent field microscopy and image analysis in MATLAB.

Jon Kindem then went on to pursue a PhD at Caltech, where they were a Graduate Research Assistant in the Nanoscale and Quantum Optics group with Prof. Andrei Faraon from 2013 to 2019. During this time, they developed on-chip quantum light-matter interfaces based on nanophotonic resonators integrated with rare-earth ions embedded in solids, including a nanoscale quantum memory using an ensemble of neodymium ions coupled to a nanobeam cavity fabricated in the YVO host crystal.

In 2019, Jon Kindem became a NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at JILA, working in the labs of Prof. Konrad Lehnert and Prof. Cindy Regal on a microwave-to-optical converter based on a silicon nitride membrane simultaneously coupled to an optical cavity and microwave circuit.

Most recently, Jon Kindem has been a Senior Quantum Engineer and Quantum Engineer at Atom Computing since 2021.

Jon Kindem completed their Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Reed College in 2013, and then went on to pursue their Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Physics from Caltech, which they completed in 2018.