Doerte Blume

Doerte Blume is a Professor of Physics at University of Oklahoma doing research in the area of cold atom and few-body physics.

Biography Blume completed her undergraduate and obtained a PhD in 1998 from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. Her PhD was supervised by Jan Peter Toennies and K. Birgitta Whaley. This included research done at University of California, Berkeley. Following this she completed a post-doc at JILA, University of Colorado Boulder.

Research Blume conducts research into sub-atomic particles at Washington State University.

In 2022 she obtained a $1million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to investigate quantum synchronization.

Honors and awards 2006 - Washington State University College of Sciences Young Faculty Performance Award 2010 - Fellow of the American Physical Society for "contributions to physics of weakly-bound quantum clusters and strongly-interacting degenerate Fermi gases in one dimension." 2014 - Washington State University College of Arts and Sciences Mid-Career Achievement in Scholarship/Creative Activities Award 2016 - Meyer Distinguished Professorship at Washington State University 2025 - George Lynn Cross Professorship Bush Lectureship at the University of Oklahoma

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