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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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

💡 This is a tenure-track opportunity with strong institutional support and the opportunity to lead the scientific and technical development of a cutting-edge quantum experiment from its early stages. 👉 Apply here: dipc.ehu.eus/en/dipc/join...

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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 · 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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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 · 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 · 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 · 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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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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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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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Science Ball 2025- Pretty Amazing experience and this year Dancing into the Q-Year! Our Cluster of Excellence quantA was there! #IYQ @sciball.bsky.social

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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Innsbruck is hosting YAO!!!! Are you not yet registered? Hurry up :-) list of speakers AMAZInG! Honestly, YAO is one of the best event the Atomic Physics community has ever created for PhD Students! @yao2025.bsky.social

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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🚀 Exciting times ahead! Our new Dysprosium Lab is taking shape in San Sebastián at @dipcehu.bsky.social 🧪✨ Join us on this great adventure—PhD, post-docs, and researchers are welcome! Just send us an email! 🌟 RT to spread the word! 🙌 #ScienceInnovation #JoinOurTeam #ultracold

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Ferlaino Group @ferlainogroup.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Congratulations to our Masters student, Sarah Embacher, who defended her thesis today! 🥳 Sarah worked in the ERBIUM lab where she implemented a scanning optical dipole trap and also carried out simulations of how q-plates can be used to create optical potentials. ⚛️🔦

Masters student Sarah Embacher standing in front of a lecture hall, with her Masters thesis defense slides up behind her.

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