Meyer earns Lockheed Martin Graduate Fellowship for portable optical clocks research
Dylan Meyer, a fourth-year electrical engineering PhD student, has been selected as the recipient of the Lockheed Martin Graduate Fellowship for the 2026-27 academic year.
Nominated by department faculty members and selected by the College of Engineering & Applied Science at CU ǸԹ, Lockheed Martin provided Meyer a one-year fellowship of $8,000 as part of a valued partnership that aligns their shared goals of developing tomorrow’s leaders and conducting research that has a positive impact on society.
“I think it is always nice to be given a ‘good job’ from those you respect and admire,” Meyer said. “The CU research community is an impressive one and to be recognized as part of it feels great.
His research focuses on linking portable optical clocks to allow them to be used in a wider setting helping improve navigation technologies and other essential infrastructure. Meyer specifically uses optically derived millimeter waves to accomplish this. Other research interests of his include using optics to derive low noise millimeter and RF waves for use in radar and next generation telecommunications.
Meyer is part of theFrequency Combs & Quantum Metrology lab led by ProfessorScott Diddams in the Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering Department.This year, he will be taking an optical table from the lab to a roof top, outdoor experiment, hoping to push him closer to real-life scenarios.
“I hope that some lessons learned in my research can allow for others to continue to push the envelope of precise timing and the sciences related to it,” Meyer said. “Maybe some small nugget of information can help others with future projects or some insight can lead to something really impactful.”
Time is a silent infrastructure that supports most of the modern world, and it is really humbling and gratifying to be a small part of this scientific community!
Meyer earned his bachelor’s in electrical engineering at the University of Alabama and received his masters in electrical engineering at CU ǸԹ.
In 2024, Meyer earned the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for his promising quantum-related research. He currently serves as one of the frequency control student representatives for the.
“Thank you’s abound, number one to my advisor Scott, but also to the people who I have worked with from my former mentors both at the University of Alabama and at CU ǸԹ and my current teammates. None of my research would be possible without my amazing labmates!”