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Michele Kelley (Fed)
Physicist
Michele is a National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Nanoscale Spectroscopy Group in the Nanoscale Device Characterization Division of the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML). She is currently working on optically active point defects or "color centers" in wide bandgap semiconductors for quantum sensing and quantum single photon emission. Michele has a particular interest in advancing solid-state platforms for quantum technologies through color center discovery and characterization. She is also developing methods for more efficient and more sensitive magnetometry with color centers using adaptive experiment design.
Michele received a B.S. (2016) in physics from Middle Tennessee State University, and a M.S. (2020) and Ph.D. (2023) in physics and astronomy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During her time at UNC, she worked on hyperpolarized nuclei for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with a focus on ultra-low magnetic field applications.
Michele's general research interests include:
- color centers
- quantum sensing
- nuclear hyperpolarization
- magnetic resonance
- adaptive experiment design
Awards
- National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (2023)
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2020)