Waseem S. Bakr is Professor of Physics at Princeton University who received his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University. His areas of interest include strongly correlated many-body systems, degenerate gases in optical lattices, ultracold molecules, and Rydberg atoms, among others. Since 2023, he has been Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies in the Physics Department at Princeton University and is also on the Princeton Quantum Initiative Executive Committee. He has received numerous awards over the years, including, the recent Brown Science Investigator Award (2022) and the Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering (2016). He is also principal investigator at the Laboratory for Ultracold Quantum Gases at Princeton.