{"id":54340,"date":"2025-08-27T14:14:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/?p=54340"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:19:43","slug":"elena-defends-her-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/elena-defends-her-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena defends her PhD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense1-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense1-800x1067.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"323\"><strong data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"321\">Today, Elena Poli from our Theory team successfully defended her PhD thesis, titled <em data-start=\"247\" data-end=\"319\">\u201cUnveiling the Superfluid and Solid Behaviour in Dipolar Supersolids\u201d!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"325\" data-end=\"886\">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.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"888\" data-end=\"1041\">In total, Elena achieved an impressive list of 10 publications during her PhD.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1043\" data-end=\"1301\">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.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1303\" data-end=\"1377\"><strong data-start=\"1303\" data-end=\"1375\">Thank you, Elena \u2014 and we wish you all the very best for the future!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1303\" data-end=\"1377\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense3-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense3-800x1067.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-54344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense2-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense2-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense4-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense4-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense4-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense4-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense4-500x664.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense4-800x1062.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena_defense4.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"1379\" data-end=\"1382\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Elena Poli from our Theory team successfully defended her PhD thesis, titled \u201cUnveiling the Superfluid and Solid Behaviour in Dipolar Supersolids\u201d!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54361,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54340\/revisions\/54361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}