PhD Students
Stefan Bergmeister
Stefan joined the experimental group of Prof. Dr. Paul Scheier. He studied helium nanodroplets during his diploma thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Paul Scheier at the University of Innsbruck. He continues his work, building up and measuring with a novel experiment to gain new knowledge about cluster science.
+43 512 507 52673
Nina Bersenkowitsch
Nina works in the ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry laboratory of Prof. Dr. Martin Beyer and studies atmospheric photo-chemical processes in an aerosol environment. She received her Master in Physics at the University of Innsbruck in 2016.
+43 512 507 52695
Elvia Colella
Elvia joined the group of Prof. Dr. Helmut Ritsch and works on many-body phenomena in ultra-cold gases coupled to optical resonators. She received her Master in Physics at the University of Pisa.
+43 512 507 52203
Ulrich Czopak
Ulrich joined the Photonics group of Prof. Weihs in 2016 for his Master thesis on spectroscopy of coupled micropillars. He continues to work on confined systems of exciton-polaritons in the doctoral programme with the aim to generate quantum states of light with partly light, partly matter quasiparticles.
+43 512 507 52570
Franziska Dahlmann
Franziska studies low-frequency vibrational modes in cold ionic complexes in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Roland Wester and at the FELIX FEL facility in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The latter allows access to the far-infrared frequency range for vibrational spectroscopy of weakly bound negative ions.
+43 512 507 52754
Gianmaria Durastante
Gianmaria from Italy works in the group of Prof.a Dr. Francesca Ferlaino on the RARE (Rydberg Atoms with Rare Earths) experiment. He received his Master in physics from the University of Trento on sub-Doppler cooling of sodium atoms in gray molasses.
+43 512 507 4747
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.
+43 512 507 52107
Matthias Englbrecht
Matthias studies applications of multipartite entanglement in the group of Prof. Barbara Kraus. He received his Master in Physics from Ludwig-Maximilian University and Technical University of Munich with the thesis Robust preparation of logical basis states in planar codes.
+43 512 507 52283
Isabella Fritsche
Isabella joined the FeLiKx experiment of Prof. Dr. Rudolf Grimm, where she plans to do experiments with a species-selective optical lattice. She received her Master in Physics at the University of Innsbruck on Sub-Doppler Cooling of Fermionic Lithium.
+43 512 507 4769
Katharina Geistlinger
Katharina studies water clusters and chromophores in the terahertz spectroscopy laboratory of Prof. Dr. Roland Wester. She received her Master in Physics at the University of Innsbruck on A Tunable Terahertz-System for Continuous-Wave Molecular Spectroscopy.
+43 512 507 52764
Thomas Gstir
Thomas joined the group of Prof. Dr. Roland Wester at the Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, where he studies ion-molecule reactions and their underlying mechanisms in crossed-beam scattering experiments. Prior to that, he received his Master in Material and Nanoscienes at the University of Innsbruck.
+43 512 507 52634
Jakob Heller
Jakob studies hydrated metal ions with an ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer in the group of Prof. Dr. Martin Beyer. He received his Master in Physics at the University of Innsbruck on Infrared Multiphoton Dissociation of Cesium Iodide Clusters Doped with Peptides.
+43 512 507 52693
Raphael Holzinger
Raphael joined the group of Prof. Dr. Helmut Ritsch and works on collective phenomena in dipole-dipole interacting quantum emitters and photon-mediated atomic interactions. He received his Master in Physics at the University of Innsbruck under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Helmut Ritsch.
+43 512 507 52287
Milena Horvath
Milena works on the CsIII experiment in the team of 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.
+43 512 507 52447
Sofiene Jerbi
Sofiene joined the group of Prof. Dr. Hans J. Briegel, where he investigates the speed-ups that quantum computers can offer in reinforcement learning and machine learning. He received his Engineering Degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Computer Science from the Institut Mines-Télécom in France.
+43 512 507 52245
Yusuf Karli
Yusuf works on producing multi-photon states from quantum dots in the Photonics group of Prof. Weihs. He received his MSc from Izmir Institute of Technology with the thesis “Quantum Walks: Entanglement Between Spatial Degrees of Freedom and Interference in Multi-Photon Walks”.
+43 512 507 52563
Matthias Kondrak
Matthias joined the quantitative spectroscopy group of Prof. Norbert Przybilla in the Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics. During his physics-Master studies at the University of Innsbruck he worked on a spectroscopic atlas of the A8 IB supergiant HD 80404 in the near-IR.
+43 512 507 52106
Michael Rader
Michael joined the group of Prof. Dr. Andreas Läuchli and investigates quantum many-body systems and ultracold quantum gases with numerical simulations. Michael finished his Master in Physics in Innsbruck with the thesis Projected Entangled Pair States for Two-Dimensional Spin Systems.
+43 512 507 52258
Artem Rakcheev
Artem from Germany works in the group of Prof. Dr. Andreas Läuchli. He joined the DK-programme in August 2017 and currently investigates the dynamics of quantum spin systems in the context of quantum annealing. Artem obtained a Master's degree in Physics from the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich. In his Master thesis in the group of Dr. Fabian Heidrich-Meisner, he studied many-body localization on a spin ladder.
+43 512 507 52223
Christian Schneider
Christian from Germany joined the group of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kirchmair and works with superconducting technologies to reach the limits of today´s high precision measurements. He finished his Master thesis with a focus on superconducting circuits at the Technical University of Munich.
+43 512 507 4733
Malcolm Simpson
Malcolm from Great Britain joined the group of Prof. Dr. Roland Wester, where he works on laser spectroscopy of trapped molecular ions of astrochemical interest. He received his Master of Science in Physics from the Imperial College in London.
+43 512 507 52756
Elisa Soave
Elisa joined the DynamiK experiment of Prof. Dr. Rudolf Grimm, where she is working on a new Fermi-Fermi mixture of Dy and K. She attended the University of Pisa and developed her Master project on the design and characterization of a microscope objective at LKB in Paris.
+43 512 507 52416
Maximilian Sohmen
Max studied physics in Heidelberg and spent the last year of his MSc programme at the University of Cambridge, where he worked on Fast Production of Strongly-Interacting Bose Gases. He joined the group of Prof. Dr. Francesca Ferlaino in the RARE team and he will focus on the development of a new optical-lattice setup for dipolar quantum gases.
+43 512 507 4750
Lea Trenkwalder
Lea joined the group of Prof. Dr. Hans J. Briegel and works on the application of artificial intelligence in quantum experiments. She received her Master in Physics at the University of Innsbruck on the topic of Protective Simulation with multi-layered compositional memory applied to partially observable problems.
+43 512 507 52225
Govind Unnikrishnan
Govind joined the group of Prof. Dr. Hanns-Christoph Nägerl in the ultracold potassium-cesium molecules project. He received his BS and MS degrees from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune with a master's thesis on Quantum Noise & Actuator Based Control in Spin Ensembles.
+43 512 507 52432
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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Krzysztof Zamarski
Krzysztof works on the ultracold KCs molecules experiment in the group of Prof. Dr. Hanns-Christoph Nägerl. He received his Master's degree from the University of Cambridge in 2020, with a thesis titled Quantum Phase Transition in a Driven System
+43 512 507 52448
Maximilian Zanner
Max graduated at the Karlsruher Institute for Technology in Germany in 2016. His research included measuring non-reciprocal effects in waveguide quantum electrodynamics with superconducting qubits. He joined the group of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kirchmair, where he is working on analog quantum simulations.
+43 512 507 52595