I cherish my time with Gabi when we both were at MIT. He was a postdoc in the George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory led by Prof. Michael S. Feld and I was a graduate student in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Laboratory (LIGO) led by Rainer Weiss (Nobel laureate in physics). We got to know each other, not through research meetings, but through weekly soccer activity in the physics department. Every week after soccer practice sessions, we exchanged research ideas and brainstormed how to combine our expertise, which led to the publication of an excellent joint paper on nanometer-resolved surface vibrometry of cells in Physical Review Letters. Through this process, we both learned the importance of open-mindedness for impactful collaborative research. In this talk, I will share this memory with the audience.
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