Univ. Prof. Dr. Francesca Ferlaino
- Professor, Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Scientific and Managing Director, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Innsbruck, Austria
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FF’s Short Profile
Francesca Ferlaino is born on 23th December 1977 in Napoli, Italy. She studied physics at the University of Federico II in Napoli and she then moved to Trieste, where she studied for her theoretical diploma thesis at the ISAS. After few months of wandering around the world, she has started her PhD in Florence (Italy) at LENS on experiments with ultracold quantum gases, receiving her PhD degree in 2004. She spent two additional years at LENS as a PostDoc before coming to Innsbruck in 2006 as a visiting scientist in the group of Rudi Grimm. At the beginning her stay was just planned for 3 months. The 3 months became 6. The 6 months 1 year. 1 year easily doubled to 2 years, and the 2 years doubled again, and again :). Francesca is now Full Professor at the University of Innsbruck and Research Director at the Institute for Quantum optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI).
She won the Lise-Meitner postdoctoral fellowship granted by the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF), the START Prize from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMWF), the ERC Starting Grant, the ERC Consolidator Grant and the ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. In 2014 she obtained the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Professorship.
Francesca’s research is dedicated to the experimental study of fundamental few- and many-body phenomena realized with ultracold quantum gases of atoms and molecules. The main focus here is the realization of exotic states of matter such as giant three-body states, quantum dipolar gases of highly magnetic atoms and ultracold polar molecules. Francesca is leading the ERBIUM Team and the Theory Team at the Univ. of Innsbruck and the Er-Dy Team and the T-Reqs at the IQOQI.
Aside from physics, Francesca has spent a lot of time travelling around (more than 50 different states), behind the objective of her photo camera, and with its family.
Faculty Positions and Professional Experience
Since 2019
Managing and Scientific Director at the IQOQI
Since 2019
Elected Member of the Senate of the University of Innsbruck.
Since 2014
Full Professor of Physics (Tenure – P98), University of Innsbruck (Austria) & Scientific Director of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Science
2013-2017
Director of the Innsbruck Physics Research Center
2009-2014
Tenure-Track Professorship (P99) for Atomic Physics, University of Innsbruck (2012-2014); Research and Teaching Associate (2009-2011)
05-07/2016
DIPC Visiting Fellowship, San Sebastian (Spain)
04-05/2016
JILA Visiting Fellowship, University of Colorado, Boulder (US)
03-04/2016
Bershadsky Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at Harvard University, Cambridge (US)
2014
Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (declined offer)
03-06/2014
Guest Lecturer at the University of Wien, Austria
2007 – 2009
Lise-Meitner Postdoctoral Fellow of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
2006 – 2007
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
2004 – 2006
Senior Scientist (Assegnista di ricerca), European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Florence (Italy)