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.

E-mail:  desislava.atanasova@uibk.ac.at
Phone: +43 512 507 0

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.

E-mail: Roberts.berkis@uibk.ac.at
Phone: +43 512 507 52488

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.

E-mail: lukas.deeg@uibk.ac.at
Phone: +43 512 507 52545

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.

E-mail: Tommaso.Faleo@uibk.ac.at
Phone: +43 512 507 52654

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.

E-mail: martin.fasser@uibk.ac.at
Phone: +43 512 507 52201

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.

E-mail: Florian.goschin@uibk.ac.at
Phone: +43 512 507 52486

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.

E-mail: jessica.hartmann@uibk.ac.at
Phone: +43 512 507 52287

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. 

E-mail: Milena.Horvath@uibk.ac.atl
Phone: +43 512 507 52447

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.

E-mail: afor.houwman@uibk.ac.at
Phone: +43 512 507 52439

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.  

E-mail: louis.lafforgue@uibk.ac.at
Phone: +43 512 507 52932

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.

E-mail: sarah.madlener@uibk.ac.at
Phone: +43 512 507 52697

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.

E-mail: Reza.Mosala-Nejad@uibk.ac.at
Phone: +43 512 507 52941

Barna  Mendei

Barna has joined the group of Prof. Dr. Helmut Ritsch where he investigates the Doppler-slowing and cooling of Positronium. He recieved his Master in Physics at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. There he examined loop shaped interferometers.

E-mail: barna.mendei@uibk.ac.at

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.

E-mail: Sruthi.Purushu-Melath@uibk.ac.at
Phone: +43 512 507 52630

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.

E-mail: Raamamurthy.Sathyanarayanan@uibk.ac.at
Phone: +43 512 507 4765

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

E-mail: Krzysztof.Zamarski@uibk.ac.at
Phone: +43 512 507 52448