Center for Ultracold Atoms and Quantum Gases, IExP and IQOQI, Innsbruck
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We welcome Damiano Alessandroni to our group! Damiano completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Physics in 2023 at Roma Tre University, and he is currently enrolled at the same university for his Master’s Degree in Theoretical Physics. During the TIQIT 2024 event, he was introduced to the research field of ultracold atoms. Now, he started working in our theory team for his master’s thesis.
We welcome two new members to our theory team!
Héctor Briongos is a visiting PhD student, staying from September 8 to December 6, and Marc Camus is starting his PhD in our group.
Héctor completed his bachelor studies in physics at the University of Valladolid and his master studies in quantum science and technology at the University of Barcelona. For his master thesis, he collaborated with Dr. Jose Ramón Martinez Saavedra at Quside Technologies. In January 2024, he started his PhD at the University of Barcelona, supervised by Montserrat Guilleumas and Bruno Juliá-Díaz.
Marc completed his bachelor and master studies in physics at the University of Barcelona. His master’s thesis, supervised by Bruno Juliá-Díaz, focused on a system of spin-polarized fermions in a one-dimensional harmonic trap interacting via p-wave scattering. After graduating in July 2025, he joins our theory team in September 2025 as a PhD student.
This summer, we are once again welcoming four master’s students from the University of Naples Federico II through the Aurora program. Each student will stay for a period of three to four weeks and complete a project within one of the teams in our group.
Our guests and their projects are:
Luigi Petillo – Feasibility study of a stochastic super-resolution imaging method in the Erbium Lab
Carlo Valentino – Magnetic field stabilization in the Er-Dy Lab
Paolo Palumbo – Survival probability of atoms in an optical tweezer in the TREQS Lab
Krishan Joshi – Injection locking of the 401 nm diode laser in the TREQS Lab
We wish the students an enjoyable stay in Innsbruck and much success with their projects!
We say goodbye to Rémy Dolbeaut, master student in Lyon, who did a five months master internship in the Erbium lab. Rémy worked on simulations of superradiance and also gained some hands-on experience in the lab.
Thanks for your work and we whish you all the best for the future!
A warm welcome to Ester Carranza Botey, who is joining our group here in Innsbruck as a guest for seven months. Ester completed her master studies in physics and physical technologies at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. For her master thesis and for an optics research internship during her master studies, she worked in the field of photonics and nanostructured technologies. Now, Ester will start designing the new dysprosium tweezer experiment of our group that will be located at DIPC in Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain.
We say goodbye to our theory Post-Doc Pramodh Senarath Yapa! Pramodh joined the Theory Team back in November 2023 from the University of Alberta, where he completed his PhD in Condensed Matter Theory. Together with our former Post-Doc Tom Bland, Pramodh investigated the question “How solid is a dipolar supersolid?”, and remarkably, found supersonic shear waves in honeycomb dipolar supersolids. We wish you all the best for your future, Pramodh – it was a pleasure having you here with us!