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Sun Park

Sun Park is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Professor Eric Cornell’s lab at JILA. Originally from South Korea, she obtained her B.A. in physics and chemistry at Oberlin College in 2019 and started the Ph.D. program at University of Colorado Boulder. When not in the lab, she can be found hiking in the Rockies with her husband, Benton, and their dog, Cassiopeia.

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