Elijah Kritzell is a PhD candidate in the Applied Physics Program at Rice University. He received his B.S. in both Physics and Astronomy from The Ohio State University in 2021. He is now pursuing his PhD in the Junichiro Kono Lab, where his research focuses on ultrastrong light-matter coupling. He designs photonic cavities to couple vacuum photons to magnetic materials for applications within quantum information, spintronics, and novel cavity-enabled technologies. 

In addition to his research interests, Elijah is a passionate educator. Concurrent to earning his certificate in Teaching and Learning from the Rice Center for Teaching Excellence, he served as an instructor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rice University, where he developed and taught new lab course curricula. He was recently named a CTE Graduate Fellow.