Physics at Harvard, as well as Principal Investigator for the Atom Cooling Group at the Rowland Institute, 1991 A Carlsberg Scholarship which enabled her to spend a year undertaking research, by the Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark, 1988 Recipient of the Research Fellowship, 1986–1989, by the Faculty of Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Publications Lene Vestergaard Hau, Manipulating Light Unit 7 of the Annenberg Foundation's "Physics for the 21st Century" Anne Goodsell, Trygve Ristroph, J. A. Golovchenko, and Lene Vestergaard Hau, Field ionization of cold atoms near the wall of a single carbon nanotube (2010) Rui Zhang, Sean R. Garner, and Lene Vestergaard Hau, Creation of long-term coherent optical memory via controlled nonlinear interactions in Bose–Einstein condensates (2009) Naomi S. Ginsberg, Sean R. Garner, and Lene Vestergaard Hau, Coherent control of optical information with matter wave dynamics (2007). Naomi S. Ginsberg, Joachim Brand, Lene Vestergaard Hau, Observation of Hybrid Soliton Vortex-Ring Structures in Bose–Einstein Condensates (2005). Chien Liu, Zachary Dutton, Cyrus H. Behroozi, Lene Vestergaard Hau, Observation of coherent optical information storage in an atomic medium using halted light pulses Lene Vestergaard Hau, S. E. Harris, Zachary Dutton, Cyrus H. Behroozi, Light speed reduction to 17 metres per second in an ultracold atomic gas Further reading Lene Vestergaard Hau, Quantum Optics: Slowing single photons Brian Murphy and Lene Vestergaard Hau, Electro-optical nanotraps for neutral atoms, Lene Vestergaard Hau, Optical information processing in Bose–Einstein condensates, Lene Vestergaard Hau, Quantum physics – Tangled memories, Lene Vestergaard Hau, Nonlinear optics: Shocking superfluids, Christopher Slowe, Laurent Vernac, Lene Vestergaard Hau, A High Flux Source of Cold Rubidium Christopher Slowe, Naomi S. Ginsberg, Trygve Ristroph, Anne Goodsell, and Lene Vestergaard Hau, Ultraslow Light & Bose–Einstein Condensates:Two-way Control with Coherent Light & Atom Fields Marin Soljacic, Elefterios Lidorikis, J. D. Joannopoulos, Lene Vestergaard Hau, Ultra Low-Power All-Optical Switching Trygve Ristroph, Anne Goodsell, J. A. Golovchenko, and Lene Vestergaard Hau, Detection and quantized conductance of neutral atoms near a charged carbon nanotube Zachary Dutton, Lene Vestergaard Hau, Storing and processing optical information with ultra-slow light in Bose–Einstein condensates Zachary Dutton, Naomi S. Ginsberg, Christopher Slowe, and Lene Vestergaard Hau, The Art of Taming Light: Ultra-slow and Stopped Light Lene Vestergaard Hau, Frozen Light Zachary Dutton, Michael Budde, Christopher Slowe, Lene Vestergaard Hau, Observation of quantum shock waves created with ultra-compressed slow light pulses in a Bose–Einstein Condensate Lene Vestergaard Hau, Taming Light with Cold Atoms Invited feature article. Published