Cora Fujiwara recently completed her PhD at the Department of Physics at the University of California San Diego under the supervision of Prof. David Weld. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of California Berkeley, where she worked in the Space Sciences Laboratory on microchannel photocathode detectors for extreme ultraviolet radiation. Her research focuses on the lithium BEC experiment. She has recently accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto in the Thywissen Lab.