Er-Dy NEWS

Andrea Litvinov, postdoc in the Er-Dy lab,  has won the 2024 USPN Thesis Prize for his thesis “Manipulation of nuclear spins of strontium 87 in degenerate Fermi gases in SU(N) symmetry”. Andrea completed his PhD at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord under the direction of Bruno Laburthe-Tolra and Olivier Gorceix, and co-supervised by Martin Robert de Saint Vincent. Congratulations Andrea!

You can find more information about 2024 USPN Thesis Prizes here: https://erasme.univ-paris13.fr/laureats-des-prix-de-these-uspn-2024/

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”.

Andrea Litvinov, postdoc in the Er-Dy lab,  has won the “Disruptive Innovation – Early Career Seed Money” from the joint funding program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). This funding program facilitates the implementation of unconventional, innovative, and potentially high-risk ideas with an uncertain outcome.

Andrea’s project involves studying the connection between supersolid glitches in dipolar quantum gases and spin-ups in the rotation velocity in pulsars —  highly magnetized and extremely rapidly rotating neutron stars. Read more about his project below. Congratulations Andrea!

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