Phil Richerme is a post-doctoral fellow working with Prof. Chris Monroe at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland.  His research interests include quantum simulation of interacting many-body systems; cryogenic ion traps for large-scale quantum information processing; and new ion trap geometries and methods for 2-dimension and 3-dimensional systems.  His BS in Physics (with a minor in Music) is from MIT, his Ph.D. from Harvard with two years working at CERN in Geneva.