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@ferlainogroup.bsky.social
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Research group working on dipolar #quantum #ultracold gases at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social and @iqoqi.bsky.social | @oeaw.bsky.social

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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Important note: We will stop posting on Bluesky! Please visit our Website www.erbium.at/FF/ and follow Francesca Ferlaino on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/francesca... to not miss any important news from our group!
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Dipolar Quantum Gases – Center for Ultracold Atoms and Quantum Gases, IExP and IQOQI, Innsbruck
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🚀 A unique and exciting new adventure is starting right now in San Sebastian (Basque Country, Spain) at DIPC (dipc.ehu.eus/es), developing the next generation programmable tweezer setup with dysprosium to perform beyond state-of-the-art quantum simulation, computation and information processing.
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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. 🎖️
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
⚛️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/...
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
📝 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
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Physikerin Francesca Ferlaino: „Ja, Fehler motivieren mich sehr“
Das Bewusstsein, dass Fehler einen Wert haben, ja notwendig sind, fehle vielen Österreichern noch, sagt die Quantenphysikerin Francesca Ferlaino. Einfach aufgeben, wenn sie »scheitert«, das würde...
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🚀 Registration now OPEN! Join TIQIT 2026 – Trento-Innsbruck Quantum Information Tour (22–28 Feb). A week of quantum research in Innsbruck & Trento! Apply 👉 ai-sf.it/tiqit 🗓 Deadline: 24 Dec 2025 @iqoqi.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy 📸: @David Jordan/IQOQI
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
🔊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.
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
👉 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/...
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🎉 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
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
📰 One of our latest papers "Synchronization in rotating supersolids" is now published in Nature Physics! 👉 Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
✨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.
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🎉 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!
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
🚀 We’re hiring! The Quantum Science Lab at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) @dipcehu.bsky.social — in collaboration with the Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science — is opening an tenure-track position as an Ikerbasque Research Fellow for an experienced experimental physicist.
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Congratulations to Eva @evacasotti.bsky.social who was awarded with the 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞 of the Euregio Young Researcher Award 2025! 🎉 Find more information about the prize here: www.europaregion.info/euregio/proj... 📸 Land Tirol/Sedlak
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
🥳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!
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
👏 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
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
▶️ 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!
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
🎉 Congratulations to our PhD student Eva Casotti for winning the “Best Student Paper Award 2025” of the @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social! 🏆 The prize was awarded for her excellent paper, “Observation of vortices in a dipolar supersolid” published in the Nature journal. Photo Credit: Universität Innsbruck
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
📢 Job Opportunity in our group! We invite you to apply for the position as a 🔬 Academy Scientist (f/m/x) in experimental quantum physics focusing on dipolar quantum gases and Rydberg physics. Join us as an advanced scientist that is of great long-term importance in our research strategy.
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🚨 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.
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🎥 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
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Francesca Ferlaino: Quantenphysikerin mit Faible für kalte Atome und Kaspressknödel www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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Francesca Ferlaino: Quantenphysikerin mit Faible für kalte Atome und Kaspressknödel
Kein Physikunterricht bis 13 und doch führende Quantenphysikerin: Francesca Ferlainos Werdegang zwischen Fußball, Französisch und Fleiß beeindruckt
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
So great to run all together! 4 teams, 16 of us 😉Thanks @atominnen.bsky.social and @iqoqi.bsky.social for organizing it!!
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Información y Tecnologías Cuánticas en España @qipcspain.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
PhD position. PhD Position in Quantum Simulation and Computation with Ultracold Atoms in Tweezers at DIPC- Donostia International Physics Center www.cuantica2025.es/job-market
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IQOQI Innsbruck @iqoqi.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
⚡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...
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Österreich-Bild aus dem Landesstudio Tirol: Die Zukunft beginnt jetzt - Innsbruck im Zentrum der Quantenforschung
Innsbruck zählt heute zu den weltweit führenden Standorten in der Quantenforschung. Die Grundsteine dafür wurden bereits in den 1990er-Jahren gelegt, als Wissenschafter wie Anton Zeilinger, Rainer Bla...
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
We are very excited to be featured in the docu! 😃
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
📽️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!
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🎓 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
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🎶 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
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
💡 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
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
📽️ 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
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
⚠️ 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
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Eva Casotti @evacasotti.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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!
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Top-Uni Innsbruck: Im Hauptquartier der Quantenforschung
In der Quantenphysik liegt Österreich an der Weltspitze. An der Universität Innsbruck bauen Forschende Quantencomputer und erkunden exotische Materiezustände. Ein Besuch im Labor.
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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...
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
‼️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! ⚛️🏃🏃‍♂️
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Night Ski with the Group! :-) Very cool
Photo of the Ferlaino research group at Bergeralm after a night of skiing!
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IQOQI Innsbruck @iqoqi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Francesca Ferlaino lives & works in Innsbruck for almost 20 years now. In an interview she explains what inspires her work, how she is advocating for more women in physics and what "aussi" and "ummi" mean in Tyrol. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tbt... (in German) @ferlainogroup.bsky.social
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100% Tirol - So viel Kraft - Francesca Ferlaino im Interview
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
These are the last days to apply and work with us in our new labs in san sebastian! Unique opportunity to do your PhD enjoying the beautiful mountains of innsbruck in Austria and the amazing sea coast of San Sebastian in Spain!
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Juan José García-Ripoll @jjgarciaripoll.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The 11th edition of the Quantum Optics Conference (quantumoptics11.confer.uj.edu.pl), a satellite conference of BEC 2025, will be held in Kraków from September 1 to 5, 2025.
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Jannes Nys @jannesnys.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I am thrilled to announce the "Challenges in Simulating Quantum Matter" workshop at ETH Zürich, 16-18 June 2025 🎉 Now accepting applications for talks and posters: csqm.org @ethzurich.bsky.social #NeuralQuantumStates #QuantumComputing #TensorNetworks #quantum
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Understanding entangled quantum systems with many interacting particles is a major challenge in physics, crucial for discovering new phases of matter, designing advanced materials, and driving quantum...
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Información y Tecnologías Cuánticas en España @qipcspain.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
PhD position. Quantum Simulation and Computation with Ultracold Atoms in Tweezers at Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) - Quantum Technology Team Group www.cuantica2025.es/job-market
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atom*innen @atominnen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
‪Happy #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience!! ⚛️ Today, we celebrate the women in science who inspire us every day with their work, perseverance and determination - despite persistent patriarchal challenges. Thank you for empowering so many of us! 👏 youtu.be/zN7jMEgN9e8?...
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
🔬 Exciting opportunities at IQOQI-INNSBRUCK!🌟 We are looking for an Academy Scientist + Post-docs to join Prof. Ferlaino's team to work on cutting-edge research in dipolar quantum gases! ⚛️ 🔗Apply now: erbium.at/FF/join-us/ #QuantumScience #ResearchJobs #Physics
An illustration of some dipolar atoms in a lattice. The text is about open position in Prof. Ferlaino's team at the university of Innsbruck and IQOQI Innsbruck. There are openings for an Academy scientist position and for postdocs. Link to the website: https://www.erbium.at/FF/join-us/
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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
🐾 Meet Pintxo, the newest member of the Dipolar Q Group family! 🎉 This adorable little one love snow.. . 🐶 #NewMascot #DipolarQ #PintxoTheQDog
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