Ferlaino Group

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A Special Honor: Francesca was invited to sign the Golden Book of the City of Innsbruck! 📖 The invitation followed her recognition as Austria’s Scientist of the Year. Innsbruck’s mayor Johannes Anzengruber warmly congratulated Francesca and emphasized how proud the city is of her achievement. 🎖️

⚛️I am happy to share that I am selected to be part of the "Quantum 100" for the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology! It’s exciting to see how the Quantum 100 provides a snapshot of the diverse community in quantum science. Read my story here: quantum2025.org/quantum-100/...

Apply now for the Aurora excellence fellowship program for visiting Master and PhD students! More information can be found here: www.erbium.at/FF/join-us/a... #quantumphysics #pysicsinternship #auroraexcellencefellowship #universityofinnsbruck #universityofnaples

📝 I’m happy to share my interview printed in the Austrian newspaper "Die Presse am Sonntag", titled: Physikerin Francesca Ferlaino: „Ja, Fehler motivieren mich sehr“! 👉 Read the interview online here: www.diepresse.com/20388954/phy... #SciComm #QuantumScience #WomenInScience #Interview #DiePresse

🔊The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has approved a new special research area (SFB) on quantum systems of neutral atoms! 🤩Our group will be part of the QNNECT project, together with the Innsbruck groups led by Hannes Bernien and Hannes Pichler and many more national and international collaborators.

👉 Register now for the Long-Range Interactions Workshop 2026! 📍I’m pleased to share that this year, the workshop will take place in the beautiful setting of Les Houches, from February 15–20! 🗓 Register until December 1st 🔗 Program, list of speakers & registration: www.erbium.at/longrange26/...

I’m excited to share that Silvia Trabucco, our new theory postdoc, has been awarded the QuantA Fellowship 2025 – Empowering Women in Quantum Science by Quantum Science Austria! 🚀 Congratulations, Silvia, and welcome to the team! 👏 💫 📸 Photo credit: Quantum Science Austria / David Jordan

🎉 Celebrating 100 Years of Quantum Science at “Willkommen Quantenwelt”, organized by QuantA! 🎤 Francesca was on stage for a live interview session and Arfor performed his song “Laser Cooling & Ultracold Atoms” together with several group members. 🕺 💃 📷 Photo credit: FF Group / Matthias Heisler

📰 One of our latest papers "Synchronization in rotating supersolids" is now published in Nature Physics! 👉 Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✨Check out our new theory paper on arxiv, "Topology meets superconductivity in a one-dimensional t-J model of magnetic atoms"! 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2509.03387 💡In a highly controllable version of the iconic t-J model, we uncover a range of exotic phases, including topological superconducting states.

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Elena Poli! 🎓 Elena from our Theory team has successfully defended her PhD thesis, “Unveiling the Superfluid and Solid Behaviour in Dipolar Supersolids”! 🚀 We wish you all the best for your future, Elena!

🥳Congratulations to Lauritz Klaus who successfully defended his PhD thesis! 🌀 Lauritz did some amazing work on supersolids and vortices in the Er-Dy lab. 🎓 He is now a PostDoc in the Erbium lab of Rob Smith in Oxford. 👏Goodbye and we wish you all the best for your future, Lauritz!

👏 A huge thank you to all the speakers, sponsors, organizers, and participants of YAO 2025! ⚛️ 📆 Last week was packed with insightful talks, poster sessions, social events, a startup panel, industry presentations, and lab tours — what an amazing experience! 🤩 📸 Photo credit: D. Jordan / IQOQI

▶️ Today, the 2025 edition of the Young Atom Opticians Conference (YAO) has started here in Innsbruck! 🙋‍♀️We thank Clemens Ulm and @evacasotti.bsky.social, PhD students from our group, and Johanna Hennebichler and Alberto Canali, PhD students from Rudi Grimms group, for orgnanizing the event!

🚨 Check out our latest paper on "Light-Assisted Collisions in Tweezer-Trapped Lanthanides" on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.05123! 💡 In a combined effort of our theory team and the Treqs experiment, we study the tweezer population dynamics during light-assisted collisions and cooling processes.

🎥 Watch Francesca's keynote speech at this year's Stupor Quanti event, hosted by the University of Naples Federico II. The talk dives into some of our group’s most exciting research findings ⚛️ 📺 Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSyG... #QuantumMechanics #Research #StuporQuanti #ScienceTalk

Francesca Ferlaino: Quantenphysikerin mit Faible für kalte Atome und Kaspressknödel www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

So great to run all together! 4 teams, 16 of us 😉Thanks @atominnen.bsky.social and @iqoqi.bsky.social for organizing it!!

PhD position. PhD Position in Quantum Simulation and Computation with Ultracold Atoms in Tweezers at DIPC- Donostia International Physics Center https://www.cuantica2025.es/job-market

⚡The future begins now⚡ Innsbruck at the center of quantum research #ORF documentary (in German) with @ferlainogroup, Gregor Weihs, Gerhard Kirchmair, Rainer Blatt, Peter Zoller, Thomas Monz, Serge Haroche, and many more. 👉🏻 on.orf.at/video/142763...

We are very excited to be featured in the docu! 😃

📽️Our group is featured in the ORF Tirol documentary “The Future Begins Now – Innsbruck at the Center of Quantum Research” (in German)! Éric Berdaguer explores Innsbruck’s rise in quantum science, from Zeilinger’s work to today's cutting-edge research.🏆 📺 Sun, May 18, 18:25, ORF 2 – Don’t miss it!

🎓 PhD in the mountains or by the sea? Why choose?Join us at @dipcehu.bsky.social in San Sebastián 🌊 with strong ties to Innsbruck 🏔️! Explore tweezer-based atomic quantum simulation in a brand-new experiment! 👉 Apply here: dipc.ehu.eus/en/dipc/join... #PhD #QuantumPhysics #UltracoldAtoms #Hiring

What do ultracold quantum gases and neutron stars have in common? This is the question Manfred is going to answer at the SciComm event Pint of Science Innsbruck next Monday (May 19)! 🍻🎤 Talk in German – come for science, stay for drinks! 🎟️ pintofscience.at/event/from-s... #SciComm #PintofScience

🎶 Congrats to our PhD student Arfor who turned our research topics into a dazzling music video and won the international "Dance Your PhD" competition in the categories physics and AI/quantum physics! 🏆🕺 📽️ Check out the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPry... #DanceYourPhD #Science #QuantumPhysics

💡 We’re featured in today’s Quantum Snapshot by QuantA! ⚛️ The spotlight is on IQOQI Innsbruck @iqoqi.bsky.social and the atom*innen initiative @atominnen.bsky.social. Pictured (left to right): Our PhD students Sarah Embacher, Elena Poli, and Eva Casotti. 📸 Photo credit: IQOQI | D. Jordan

📽️ Francesca is featured in the social media campaign #breakthebias of Austria’s Ministry of Education, Science and Research! 👩‍🔬She highlights the importance of women’s perspectives in science and advocates for more women in leading positions to serve as a role model. #breakthebias #equality #bmbwf

Registration is now open for the Long-Range Workshop 2025 taking place Sepltember 21-24 at the Old Castle Stuttgart! Join for an insightful conference in a unique setting. 🗓 Register by July 15 to secure your spot: www.pi5.uni-stuttgart.de/news/longran... #LongRangeWorkshop #UniversitätStuttgart

On Tuesday, the groundbreaking ("Spatenstich") for the new House of Physics took place on our campus. 🏗️ What is still a construction site now, is expected be a finished building in 2028, and we are very much looking forward to our new lab and office spaces! 🤩 #HouseofPhysics #CampusDevelopment

⚠️ Today is the last day to register for YAO 2025! 📅 Join us July 6–11, 2025 in Innsbruck, Austria for talks, poster sessions, industry talks & networking! 🔗 Register by the 31st of March: yao.iqoqi.at Don’t miss out! 🌍⚛ #YAO2025 #QuantumPhysics #AMO @iqoqi.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

Exciting to see our research featured in @profil.at! 🚀🔬 Our @ferlainogroup.bsky.social , led by Francesca Ferlaino, shares insights alongside Thomas Monz, Gregor Weihs & Hannes Pichler—plus a glimpse into our lab!

The review “Recent progress on quantum simulations of non-standard Bose-Hubbard models” by Priv. Doz. Dr. Manfred Mark and collaborators has been accepted to Reports on Progress in Physics! Read the full article here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

‼️Don't forget to sign up for YAO 2025‼️Registration closes on March 31st⌛ If you're a Master's or PhD student in AMO Physics, you don't want to miss this conference - tell all your friends! ⚛️🏃🏃‍♂️