It will soon be three weeks that we have the pleasure to welcome a new brasilian student in the lab, Arthur Fonseca. He is currently doing a phD at the Physics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, under the supervision of Pr. Paulo Maia Neto. He is doing experimental and theoretical studies on vortex beams and light-matter interaction in optical tweezers. Arthur will stay 6 months among us, welcome to him !

Since the first of september, we have the pleasure to welcome a new postdoctoral researcher in the team, Dr Weijian Tao. Weijian is originated from Zheijiang Province in China, and spent all his life there till now. He got his phD degree from Zheijiang University in 2022. His research subject was focused on the excited state dynamics of emerging inorganic semiconductor materials with strong electron-phonon interactions, for example 2D lead halide perovskites and antimony selenides, to understand how electron-phonon interaction defines fundamental advantages or limitations in these kinds of materials. Welcome to him !

One week ago, Kuidong Wang went back to China after 4 years spent in the lab, as a postdoctoral researcher. He now got an associate professor position in Xi’an. We really appreciated his presence among us and his investment in the research project he took part to.

We wish him all the best for the future !

We welcome since the 1st of July Rahul Meena, phD in Université Libre de Bruxelles  under the supervision of Pr. Yves Geerts, in the context of the UHMob program. Rahul comes from Rajasthan in India and received his master degree from IISER Bhopal. He is currently working on synthesizing new organic semiconductors having high carrier mobility, that will be tested under strong coupling with conductivity measurements. He will stay 2 months in the lab, in office n°106.

Kalaivanan Nagarajan left our lab one week ago to go back in India where he will take a position of reader at the Department of Chemical Sciences of TIFR, Mumbai. He spent 5 years in the lab, during which he had time to build strong relationships with people here, to evolve as a scientist with a pure chemistry education to a much more physics one and to forge a family. His presence in the team was precious thanks to his energy and enthusiasm. No doubt that his new colleagues will benefit from this and we wish him all the best for the future !

With a bit of delay, we introduce you to our new Master 2 student, Antoine Tartar. He started his training in the lab in the beginning of February and he is currently working on setting up a new optical trap under vacuum with Rémi Goerlich and Luis Pires, under the supervision of Cyriaque Genet.

Our colleague Sandeep Kulangara, who was here for a postdoctoral position for 2 years, left us one week ago to go back in India. We greatly appreciated his discreet and efficient presence in the team. He started again in his former position of assistant professor at Government Victoria College Palakkad.
Good luck to him !

Lucia Di Virgilio joined us last week and will stay in our lab for two months. She is a phD student at MPI Mainz, under the supervision of Pr Misha Bonn and part of the UHMob program. Lucia is originated from Basilicata region in Italy and did her master on cold atoms in Pisa, where she first discovered physics in cavities. Now she studies the transport properties of conductive molecular materials under strong coupling regime, thanks to Thz spectroscopy. If you want to meet her, she will be staying in room 106 of our lab. Welcome to her !

Gian-Lorenzo Paravicini-Bagliani, who was working with us as a postdoctoral researcher since two years, left the lab in December. He found a position in Zürich, in the research and development department of Sensirion, which is a young company developing and producing a range of innovative digital environmental sensors for different industries. We wish him good luck in this new job !