Dan Stamper-Kurn is a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley and a Faculty Scientist in the Materials Science Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He earned his PhD from MIT, working with Wolfgang Ketterle on pioneering early experiments on Bose-Einstein condensation. He then performed postdoctoral research at Caltech, working with Jeff Kimble on cavity QED, before establishing his own research program at Berkeley. Stamper-Kurn's research has touched on many topics, including magnetic order in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates, cavity optomechanics, quantum-limited and mid-circuit measurements, geometric effects in materials, and quantum optics with atom-tweezer arrays. He has established and now directs the Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and is one of the leading academic centers for quantum information science and engineering. Stamper-Kurn is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Optica, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the co-recipient of the NASA Group Achievement Award for leadership in developing quantum technologies in space, and the recent recipient of the 2025 Senior BEC Award.