Cody Hsieh is currently enrolled in the Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP), a PhD programme at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Cody obtained a master’s degree from the Department of Physics at National Taiwan University, working under the supervision of Dr. Ming-Shien Chang at the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica. Dr. Chang’s group specializes in experimental ultracold atomic physics and optical science, focusing on the quantum control of atomic spins for quantum simulations and quantum sensing. For his master’s thesis, Cody studied the relaxation dynamics of ground electronic spins of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in nanodiamonds and quantum control on NV centres. Currently continuing research in Dr. Chang’s lab, Cody is working on an atomic Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) experiment focusing on the thermalisation of spinor condensates, an isolated quantum many-body system.