Today, Elena Poli from our Theory team successfully defended her PhD thesis, titled “Unveiling the Superfluid and Solid Behaviour in Dipolar Supersolids”!
Elena began her PhD journey in 2019, she was the first member of our Theory team, together with our postdoc at the time, Tom Bland. She played a major role when our group experimentally observed a dipolar supersolid in 2D and extended this work by studying rotating supersolids in 2D, in close collaboration with the Er-Dy lab. She also spent a research stay abroad in New Zealand, joining the group of Prof. Blair Blakie. Most recently, she explored a possible application of her research to glitches in rotating neutron stars.
In total, Elena achieved an impressive list of 10 publications during her PhD.
Beyond her scientific contributions, we thank Elena for organizing barbecues in a wonderfully responsible way, for sharing her excellent taste in music and TV shows, and for carrying our team through long sports nights with her marvelous volleyball skills.
Thank you, Elena — and we wish you all the very best for the future!
