PhD Students
Desislava Atanasova
Desislava joined the group of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kirchmair for her master's project on parametric amplifiers based on dispersion engineered Josephson junction arrays. She continues her research within the group with a new focus on exploring novel superconducting architectures for creating error-corrected logical quantum bits.
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Roberts Berkis
Roberts has joined quantum interface group of Prof Tracy Nothup , where he currently investigates Ion traps with integrated high Fiber Cavities. He received his masters degree from University of Latvia working with whispering gallery mode (WGM) micro resonators.
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Alberto joined the group of Prof. Dr. Rudolf Grimm, where he is working on an experiment on Fermionic quantum mixture with high mass imbalance in the DyK laboratory. He received his Master from the University of Trento where he worked on an experimental proposal of an Analogue Gravity model for a Polariton system.
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lukas Deeg
lukas joined the group of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kirchmair for the Superconducting Quantum Micromechanics project. He investigates the coupling of superconducting circuits to mechanical resonators with the aim to explore and harness quantum effects on macroscopic scales. He received his Master’s degree in Physics from the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg.
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Alexander Ebenbichler
Alexander is part of the Galactic Astrophysics group of Prof. Norbert Przybilla at the Institute of Astro- and Particle Physics. He is studying polyacenes as possible carriers of diffuse interstellar bands. He did his master thesis in Innsbruck on Quantitative Analysis of WINERED spectra of cepheids.
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Tommaso Faleo
Tommaso joined the Photonics group of Prof. Dr. Gregor Weihs to investigate the collective interference phenomena of multi-photon states in multi-mode interferometers. He received his Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
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Martin Fasser
Martin joined the group of Prof. Dr. Helmut Ritsch for his master's project on a superadiant laser based on a thermal atomic beam. He continues his research within the group on the topic of cooperative dynamics of dipole interacting quantum emitter arrays in optical devices.
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Florian Goschin
Florian joined the quantum interfaces group of Prof.a Tracy Northup where he is studying the coupling of a hybrid system consisting of an single ion and a levitated nanoparticle to an optical cavity. He received his Master in Physics at the LMU Munich, where he developed a spectroscopic technique to perform temperature measurements on the nanoscale using plasmonic nanoparticles.
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Jessica Hartmann
Jessica joined the group of Prof. Dr. Martin Beyer to study the reactivity of gas-phase sodium chloride cluster ions. Therefore, she works with a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer and performs quantum chemical calculations. She received her Master in Physics at the University of Innsbruck under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Martin Beyer on Reactivity of Sodium Chloride Clusters with Atmospherically Relevant Acids in the Gas Phase.
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Milena Horvath
Milena works on the CsIII experiment in the team of Prof. Dr. Hanns-Christoph Nägerl. She received her Master in Physics at the University of Otago on Energy dependent scattering of ultracold atoms about a Feshbach resonance.
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Arfor Houwman
Arfor joined the group of Prof. Dr. Francesca Ferlaino to study dipolar quantum gases within the Erbium team. He received his MSc from the Université Paris-Saclay and Ecole Normale Superieure finishing with an internship on quantum droplets.
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Shan Jin
Shan joined the group of Prof. Dr. Martin Beyer. He studies spectroscopy of ionic iron compounds with a Fourier-Transform - Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometer. He received his Master of Science in Optics from the South China Normal University.
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Louis Lafforgue
Louis joined the group of Prof. Dr. Francesca Ferlaino end of 2022 for his PhD studies and is currently working on the setup and the experiment on optical lattice and bloch oscillations. He received his MSc from the University of Innsbruck on a Study of a dipolar gas confined in a one-dimensional lattice and construction of a new imaging setup for the ERBIUM experiment.
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Sarah Madlener
Sarah has joined the group of Prof. Dr. Martin Beyer in 2021 for her Master thesis concerning the photochemistry of salt clusters. Her PhD thesis project will be based on the research outcome of 2 former DK ALM PhD students and is an extension of her Master thesis. In general it concerns the photochemistry of doped alkali halide salt clusters and their ability to serve as laboratory models in sea salt aerosols.
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Reza Mosala
Reza has joined the quantum matter group of Prof. Dr. Hanns-Christoph Naegerl where he is contributing to build a new quantum cold gas setup operating with ytterbium atoms. Reza has earned his MSc degree in physics from the University of Zurich.
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Elena Poli
Elena joined the theory group of Prof. Dr. Francesca Ferlaino to study many-body quantum phases in dipolar atoms. She received her Master in Physics at the University of Padova with a thesis about quantum droplets and bright solitons in mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates.
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Sruthi Purushu M.
Sruthi from India finished her Master's degree at Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala and joined the the DK-programm in the group of Prof. Dr. Roland Wester. She will focus on the spectroscopic study of interstellar anions.
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Anna Maria Reider
Anna works in the group of Prof. Dr. Paul Scheier. She joined the DK-programme in February 2022. She is working on on the deposition of metallic nanoparticles, the consecutive production of nanofilms on different substrates and the characterisation of the surface modifications. Anna obtained a Master's degree in Physics from the University of Innsbruck.
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Raamamurthy Sathyanarayanan
Raamamurthy works in the group of Prof. Dr. Gehard Kirchmair and joined the DK-programm after finishing his master at ETH Zürich, group Yiwen Chu, in October 2023.
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Isaac Smith
Isaac joined the group of Prof Dr Hans Briegel to study topics within Quantum Machine Learning and Quantum Information. He investigates the utility of quantum combs for modelling Measurement Based Quantum Computing and related applications including the analysis of non-Markovian noise. Isaac received his Master of Science from the University of Melbourne.
Dasarath Swaraj
Dasarath Swaraj completed his master’s degree at IISER Bhopal. He joined the group of Prof. Dr. Roland Wester on the project "DoMInIon," aiming to build a new high resolution Velocity Map Imaging spectrometer and study the ion-molecule reaction dynamics of interstellar molecules.
David Weßmayer
David is part of the quantitative spectroscopy group of Prof. Dr. Norbert Przybilla and works on the high-precision characterisation of interstellar sightlines. He received his Master in Physics at the University of Innsbruck on Surface CNO-Abundances in B-Type Supergiants.
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Patrick Wilhelm
Patrick is a member of the quantum condensed matter theory group of Prof. Dr. Andreas Läuchli and joined the DK in October 2020 to continue his research of strong correlations in solid state systems. For his Master's degree, he investigated the effects of Coulomb interactions in the flat Moiré bands of twisted bilayer graphene heterostructures via numerical simulations.
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Krzysztof Zamarski
Krzysztof works on the ultracold KCs molecules experiment in the group of Prof. Dr. Hanns-Christoph Nägerl. He received his MSc from the University of Cambridge in 2020, with a thesis titled Quantum Phase Transition in a Driven System
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