Center for Ultracold Atoms and Quantum Gases, IExP and IQOQI, Innsbruck
Pramodh Yapa 
Congratulations to former postdoc in the Er-Dy LAB, Dr. Matthew Norcia, who was awarded the IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize In Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics 2024. Dr. Norcia was presented this award “for his seminal contributions to cavity-QED, optical tweezers, and dipolar quantum gases, specifically, the realization of an optical tweezer clock and of two dimensional supersolids in dipolar quantum gases”.
Congratulations to Arfor and Elena who, along with Alberto from the Grimm group, were crowned the winners of the DK ALM Science Slam 2024! In a 6-minute skit entitled “Theoretical Dreams, Experimental Realities: How to combine them?”, they showed how experimentalists and theorists work together to make new scientific discoveries! 🔬⚛️
DK-ALM (Doctoral Programme (Doktoratskolleg) Atoms, Light, and Molecules) is a collaborative programme funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) that provides research and training for excellent national and international students. The 2024 Science Slam took place in front of a sold-out crowd at Treibhaus and was hosted by Bernhard Weingartner, a science slam professional.
Welcome to Clément Caille, who is joining the ERBIUM DYSPROSIUM lab for his Masters’ internship. Clément is pursuing a Masters at ENS – Paris Saclay. He will join us for 4 months implementing optical lattices for our Quantum Gas Microscope.
We are happy to announce that our dipolar quantum gas group has two PhD positions open for 2024/2025! For more information, see the open positions page.
Photo credit: Italian Embassy in Vienna
On the 14 of April 2024, Francesca received the Grade of honor “Commendatore – Ordine della Stella d’Italia” at the Italian Embassy in Vienna by the Ambassador Pugliese. The Order of the Star of Italy is appointed by the Italian President, upon proposal of the Minister of Foreign Affairs after consulting the Council of the Order. You can read more about the honour here.
We bade farewell to Amal El Arrach on the 15th of April 2024, when she defended her master thesis – congratulations! Amal conducted her research in the T-REQS lab, which she joined in the Fall of 2020.