Bennett Sodergren

Bennett Sodergren has worked in various roles in the field of engineering since 2010. In 2010, they worked as a Laboratory Assistant at the UC Berkeley Physics Department, where they modeled hundreds of circuits and wrote technical manuals to update the laboratory course, as well as repaired and maintained lab electronics and computers. In 2011, they worked as a Segrè Intern at the UC Berkeley Physics Department, where they scrapped and rebuilt an optical trap from a safer, modular design and added optics for fluorescence microscopy, enabling a variety of molecular biophysics experiments, and tested, calibrated, and refined the new apparatus and wrote a detailed manual. In 2014, they worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Colorado Boulder, where they prototyped, built, and tested one of the world’s first mobile modelocked dual frequency comb lasers, in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and designed and began construction on a deployable trace-gas sensing lab, as well as refurbished fiber ring oscillators and began adapting them to interface with new amplifiers, electronics and locking systems. In 2016, they worked as a Research and Development Engineer at Vescent Photonics, Inc. In 2017, they worked as an Electro-Optical Systems Engineer at Analog Devices. Bennett currently works as a Research and Development Engineer at Vescent Photonics, LLC.

Bennett Sodergren began their educational journey at Sacramento City College, studying Physics from 2006 to 2009. Bennett then attended the University of California, Berkeley, where they earned a Bachelor's Degree in Physics between 2009 and 2012. Finally, they obtained a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2015.