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🚀 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.

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. 🎖️

⚛️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/...

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

📝 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

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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🚀 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

🔊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.

👉 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/...

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

🎉 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

📰 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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🚀 Supersolid spins into synchrony! 💫 Supersolids just got even cooler: @ferlainogroup.bsky.social discovered that when supersolids are rotated, #quantum vortices cause the precession and revolution of the superfluid crystal structure to synchronize their motion. 🌀 👉 iqoqi.at/en/current/n... #physics

✨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.

🎉 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!

🚀 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.

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

🥳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!

👏 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

▶️ 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!

🎉 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

📢 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.

🚨 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.

🎥 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

Francesca Ferlaino: Quantenphysikerin mit Faible für kalte Atome und Kaspressknödel www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

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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So great to run all together! 4 teams, 16 of us 😉Thanks @atominnen.bsky.social and @iqoqi.bsky.social for organizing it!!

PhD position. PhD Position in Quantum Simulation and Computation with Ultracold Atoms in Tweezers at DIPC- Donostia International Physics Center https://www.cuantica2025.es/job-market

⚡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...

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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We are very excited to be featured in the docu! 😃

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TV-Tipp 📺 Am 18.5. um 18:25 Uhr zeigt ORF2 #Innsbruck als Hotspot der #Quantenforschung 💫 Mehr zu Nobelpreisträger und Alt-Präsident der ÖAW Anton Zeilinger und der Forschung am @iqoqi.bsky.social erfahrt ihr hier ⤵️ tv.orf.at/program/orf2...

📽️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!

🎓 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