We say goodbye to to Ester Carranza Botey, who was joining our group here in Innsbruck as a guest for seven months. We wish you all the best for your future!
Sarah Embacher
We are part of a new special research area (SFB)!
The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has approved a new special research area on quantum systems of neutral atoms. We are excited to announce that our group will be part of the project, together with the groups led by Hannes Bernien and Hannes Pichler from Innsbruck, and many more national and international collaborators.
The FWF will provide funding of approximately €4 million over a period of four years. The goal of the collaborative research network “Highly Connected Quantum Systems of Neutral Atoms” is to achieve a high degree of networking and quantum mechanical entanglement of many particles, even those that are far apart. With the realization and investigation of quantum systems that are now becoming experimentally accessible for the first time, the planned cooperation promises not only a deeper understanding of novel states of matter, but also practical breakthroughs in the field of quantum technology.
Goodbye to Héctor!
We say goodbye to Héctor Briongos, PhD student at the University of Barcelona, who was visiting our theory team since September. Héctor, we wish you all the best for the future and see you around!
Welcome to quantA Fellow Silvia!
We warmly welcome Silvia Trabucco as a PostDoc in our theory team! Silvia completed her PhD at the Gran Sasso Science Institute in the group of Massimo Mannarelli. During her PhD, together with our former group members Elena Poli and Thomas Bland, she contributed to the development of the first analog model of a neutron star using dipolar atoms in the supersolid phase.
Furthermore, Silvia was awarded with the two-year QuantA Fellowship 2025 – Empowering Women in Quantum Science, with her application titled “Unfolding neutron stars with supersolids”. Congratulations for this achievement and welcome to our group!
Goodbye to Marco
We say goodbye to Marco Lucibello from Roma Tre University who completed his project for his master thesis in the Treqs Lab!
Group Hike and Törggelen
Our group went on a trip to South Tyrol to go hiking at the astonishing Barbian Waterfalls. For dinner, we visited a Buschenschank, where we enjoyed the Tyrolean tradition of Törggelen — a sociable, extended meal featuring traditional regional dishes such as chestnuts roasted over a wood fire, as well as locally produced sausages and wine.
