(John) Alex Crosse is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics at NYU Shanghai. He received his Ph.D. from Imperial College in 2011 under the direction of Prof. Stefan Scheel (now at the University of Rostock, Germany) and subsequently worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the group of Prof. Renbao Liu (2011-2013) and as a visiting scholar (2014) and then Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2014-2015) in the groups of Prof. Aaron Danner and Prof. Mankei Tsang (respectively) at the National University of Singapore. He joined NYU Shanghai in 2016.