Sarah Embacher

Our Aurora Students of 2025

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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!

 

 

 

Eva awarded with the Euregio Young Researcher Award 2025!

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© EFA/Philipp Huber

We are proud to announce that Eva Casotti has won first place in the Euregio Young Researcher Award 2025.

Now in its 14th edition, the award invited young researchers from the Euregio region (Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino) to submit their work on the theme “Competitiveness and the Euregio as a Business Location.”

During the final round at the Euregio Days 2025 in Alpbach, the finalists presented their research to a jury of leading experts from research institutions across all three Euregio regions. Eva convinced the jury with our work on “Observation of vortices in a dipolar supersolid”, carried out at the IQOQI in Innsbruck and University of Innsbruck, and recently published in Nature.

The award was presented by Arno Kompatscher (Governor of South Tyrol), Anton Mattle (Governor of Tyrol), and Simone Marchiori (Regional Minister from Trentino). Please click here to find more information about the event.

Congratulations to Eva on this outstanding achievement!

Lauritz defends his PhD!

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Congratulations to Lauritz Klaus who successfully defended his PhD thesis! Lauritz did some amazing work on supersolids and vortices in the Er-Dy lab. He is well-known for always bringing a good mood into the group, fantastic jokes and eating huge amounts of yoghurt. He is now a PostDoc in the Erbium lab if Rob Smith in Oxford. Goodbye and we wish you all the best for your future, Lauritz!

Goodbye to Rémy

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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!

Successful YAO 2025 in Innsbruck

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Photo credit: D. Jordan / IQOQI

From July 9-11, the 2025 edition of the Young Atom Opticians Conference (YAO) took place here in Innsbruck!

A huge thank you goes out to Clemens Ulm and Eva Casotti, PhD students from our group, and Johanna Hennebichler and Alberto Canali, PhD students from Rudi Grimms group, for organizing the event.

We also want to thank all speakers, participants and sponsors. The week was packed with insightful talks, poster sessions, social events, a gender equality talk, a startup panel, industry presentations, and lab tours.

For more information about YAO 2025, including a full list of the invited speakers, partner institutions and sponsors, visit https://yao.iqoqi.at/. If you are interested in hosting YAO 2027, contact us via yao2025@oeaw.ac.at.

 

Welcome to Ester!

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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.

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