Center for Ultracold Atoms and Quantum Gases, IExP and IQOQI, Innsbruck
Pramodh Yapa 
Goodbye and congratulations to Simon Gschwendtner for defending his master thesis on the 5th of April 2024! Simon was a part of the Erbium lab and also did some theoretical work for his thesis, “Bloch oscillations in a dipolar quantum gas and setup of a 631nm laser system for spin manipulation of erbium atoms” supervised by Dr. Manfred Mark. Congratulations on officially being a Master of Science!
Welcome to Hai-My Gian, who has joined the administrative staff as an assistant!
The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a profile on group leader Francesca Ferlaino, Univ.-Prof. Dr., about her research, career and commitment to gender equality in Science. This interview was conducted by Emeline Ogereau from the French Embassy in Austria . Read the full article on the website of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs here.
Andrea Litvinov, postdoc in the Er-Dy lab, has won the “Disruptive Innovation – Early Career Seed Money” from the joint funding program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). This funding program facilitates the implementation of unconventional, innovative, and potentially high-risk ideas with an uncertain outcome.
Andrea’s project involves studying the connection between supersolid glitches in dipolar quantum gases and spin-ups in the rotation velocity in pulsars — highly magnetized and extremely rapidly rotating neutron stars. Read more about his project below. Congratulations Andrea!
Welcome to Riccardo Donofrio, who has joined the T-REQS lab as a PhD student. Riccardo joins us from the University of Pisa, Italy where he worked with Professor Oliver Morsch for his Master thesis.
