Kunal Varkekar

Position: Undergraduate co-op student (Winter 2025, Phys Astro 4B)
Email: kunal.varkekar@uwaterloo.ca
Current Institution: 4B Physics and Astronomy Undergraduate, University of Waterloo

Purushottam (Kunal) Varkekar is an undergraduate student enrolled in their final year of Astrophysics. He will be working with Dr. Islam and Dr. Sabooni on a Phys 437 research project. The goal of the project is to utilize deformable optics to correct for aberrations in the light and ultimately reduce cross talk when optically addressing a trapped ion system.