Dr. Jason Williams is a Principal in the Engineering and Science Directorate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for maturing precision quantum sensors based on ultracold gases in space. He currently serves as a Principal Investigator for space-based atom interferometry and as the Project Scientist for NASA’s Cold Atom Lab (CAL), a multi-user facility that has operated on the International Space Station since 2018. CAL is dedicated to the space-based study of quantum gases and to the maturation of quantum technologies that cannot be achieved on Earth. Dr. Williams received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University, studying ultracold Fermi gases, and held a NIST NRC Postdoctoral RA in Professor Jun Ye’s lab at JILA and the University of Colorado developing high-precision optical lattice clocks.