Kristan Lee Corwin is an American physicist who is a professor and division chief at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
[1] She moved to the University of Colorado Boulder for graduate studies, where she worked on laser trapping and molecular cooling with Carl Wieman.
[2] She moved to the École Normale Supérieure for a postdoctoral fellowship, where she worked alongside Christophe Salomon on quantum gases.
[3] Corwin then returned to the United States, where she worked as a research fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
[3] In 2003, Corwin joined the faculty at the Kansas State University,[1][4] where she was made Ernest K. and Lillian E. Chapin Professor of Physics and Dean for Research.