{"id":49705,"date":"2021-06-30T13:33:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T11:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/?page_id=49705"},"modified":"2025-03-12T13:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:53:07","slug":"francesca-ferlaino","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/team\/francesca-ferlaino\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesca Ferlaino"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

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Since 2014, Francesca Ferlaino is full professor at the University of Innsbruck and Scientific Director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Science (\u00d6AW). She i<\/span>s\u00a0born on 23th<\/sup> December 1977 in Napoli, Italy. She attended a humanistic high school, and, completely ignorant of physics, decided to study physics at the University of Federico II<\/em> of Naples, to the surprise of parents and friends. Francesca then moved to Trieste, where she studied for her theoretical master thesis at the SISSA. After few months of wandering around the world, she has started her PhD in Florence (Italy) at LENS on experiments with ultracold quantum gases, receiving her PhD degree in 2004. She spent two additional years at LENS as a PostDoc. In the course of a short visiting grant of 3 months in 2006, she came to Innsbruck, joining the Group of Prof. Rudi Grimm. The scientific life in Innsbruck was so exciting to Francesca that she decided to stay longer: 3 months became 6. The 6 months 1 year. 1 year easily doubled to 2 years, and the 2 years doubled again, and again \ud83d\ude42 During this time, she received the postdoctoral Lise-Meitner Fellowship from FWF.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

She won the Lise-Meitner postdoctoral fellowship granted by the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF), the START Prize from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMWF) and two ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council. Recently, she obtained the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Professorship.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Francesca\u2019s research is dedicated to the experimental study of fundamental few- and many-body phenomena realized with ultracold quantum gases of atoms and molecules. The main focus here is the realization of exotic states of matter such as giant three-body states, quantum dipolar gases of highly magnetic atoms and ultracold polar molecules. Francesca is leading the ERBIUM Team and the Theory Team at the Univ. of Innsbruck and the Er-Dy Team and the T-Reqs at the IQOQI.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Over the last years, she focuses specifically on the strongly magnetic, and rather unexplored, Erbium and Dysprosium atomic species, realizing in 2012 world’s first Bose- Einstein condensation of Erbium, and in 2018 the first dipolar quantum mixture of Erbium and Dysprosium. In 2019, she was able to prepare the first long-lived supersolid state, an elusive and paradoxical state where superfluid flow and crystal rigidity coexist.<\/span><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Aside from physics, Francesca has spent a lot of time travelling around (more than 80 different states), behind the objective of her photo camera, and with her family.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Short Profile Since 2014, Francesca Ferlaino is full professor at the University of Innsbruck and Scientific Director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Science (\u00d6AW). She is\u00a0born on 23th December 1977 in Napoli, Italy. She attended a humanistic high school, and, … Keep Reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49705"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51888,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49705\/revisions\/51888"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}