Biography:Francesca Ferlaino

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Francesca Ferlaino
Born23th December 1977
Napoli, Italy
NationalityItalian-Austrian
Known forQuantum Phenomena in atomic gases

Realizing in 2012 world's first Bose-Einstein condensation of Erbium The first dipolar quantum mixture of Erbium and Dysprosium Prepared the first long-lived supersolid state Created supersolid states along two dimensions

Observed quantum vortices in the supersolid phase.
AwardsScientist of the Year (Austria)

Austrian of the Year (Research) Grand Prix de Physique "Cécile-DeWitt Morette/École de Physuqye des Houches" Junior Bec Award The Feltrinelli prize Erwin Schrödinger Prize Austrian Academy of Sciences Alexander von Humboldt Professorship Start Prize Three ERC Grants

Elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society
Scientific career
FieldsExperimental physicist
InstitutionsUniversity of Innbruck

Biography

Francesca Ferlaino was born in Naples, Italy. She studied physics at the University of Naples Federico II (1995–2000) and was an undergraduate research fellow at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste (1999–2000). She did a PhD in physics at the University of Florence and the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) (2001–2004). In 2007 she moved to the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where she was a research and teaching associate and started her own research group. In 2014 she became a professor of physics at the University of Innsbruck and research director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.[1]

Work

Her research activity explores quantum phenomena in atomic gases at ultralow temperatures with contributions spanning topics including quantum matter of atoms and molecules and few-body and scattering physics. Over the last years, she focuses specifically on the strongly magnetic, and rather unexplored, Erbium and Dysprosium atomic species, realizing in 2012 world's first Bose-Einstein condensation of Erbium,[2] and in 2018 the first dipolar quantum mixture of Erbium and Dysprosium.[3] In 2019, she was able to prepare the first long-lived supersolid state, an elusive and paradoxical state where superfluid flow and crystal rigidity coexist.[4] With these systems, she has explored a variety of many-body quantum phenomena dictated by the long-range and anisotropic dipolar interaction among the atoms. In 2021 she created supersolid states along two dimensions.[5] In 2024 her team reported the observation of quantum vortices in the supersolid phase[6][7]

Awards and fellowships

Her work has earned her multiple awards, including the Grand Prix de Physique "Cécile-DeWitt Morette/École de Physique des Houches" from the French Academy of Sciences (2019),[8] the Junior BEC Award (2019),[9] the Feltrinelli Prize (2017)[10] and the Erwin Schrödinger Prize (2017),[11] the highest award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In addition, she is the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (2013),[12] a START-Prize (2009) and three ERC Grants (Starting 2010, Consolidator 2016 and Advanced 2022)[13] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2019, after a nomination from the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, "for ground-breaking experiments on dipolar quantum gases of erbium atoms, including the attainment of quantum degeneracy of bosons and fermions, studies on quantum-chaotical scattering, the formation of quantum droplets, and investigations on the roton spectrum".[14][15]

She was named Austria's Scientist of the Year 2025[16] and Austrian of the Year 2024 in research[17].

References

  1. ↑ "Francesca Ferlaino – Dipolar Quantum Gases". http://www.erbium.at/FF/?page_id=1859. 
  2. ↑ Aikawa, K.; Frisch, A.; Mark, M.; Baier, S.; Rietzler, A.; Grimm, R.; Ferlaino, F. (21 May 2012). "Bose-Einstein Condensation of Erbium". Physical Review Letters 108 (21). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.210401. PMID 23003221. Bibcode: 2012PhRvL.108u0401A. 
  3. ↑ Trautmann, A.; Ilzhöfer, P.; Durastante, G.; Politi, C.; Sohmen, M.; Mark, M. J.; Ferlaino, F. (21 November 2018). "Dipolar Quantum Mixtures of Erbium and Dysprosium Atoms". Physical Review Letters 121 (21). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.213601. PMID 30517813. Bibcode: 2018PhRvL.121u3601T. 
  4. ↑ Chomaz, L.; Petter, D.; Ilzhöfer, P.; Natale, G.; Trautmann, A.; Politi, C.; Durastante, G.; van Bijnen, R. M. W. et al. (19 April 2019). "Long-Lived and Transient Supersolid Behaviors in Dipolar Quantum Gases". Physical Review X 9 (2). doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.9.021012. Bibcode: 2019PhRvX...9b1012C. 
  5. ↑ Norcia, M. A.; Politi, C.; Lauritz, K.; Poli, E.; Sohmen, M.; Mark, M. J.; Bisset, R. N.; Santos, L. et al. (18 August 2021). "Two-dimensional supersolidity in a dipolar quantum gas". Nature 596 (7872): 357–361. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03725-7. PMID 34408330. Bibcode: 2021Natur.596..357N. 
  6. ↑ Casotti, Eva; Poli, Elena; Klaus, Lauritz; Litvinov, Andrea; Ulm, Clemens; Politi, Claudia; Mark, Manfred J.; Bland, Thomas et al. (2024). "Observation of vortices in a dipolar supersolid". Nature 635 (8038): 327–331. doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08149-7. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 39506121. Bibcode: 2024Natur.635..327C. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08149-7. 
  7. ↑ Savitsky, Zack (2024-11-06). "Physicists Spot Quantum Tornadoes Twirling in a 'Supersolid'" (in en). https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-spot-quantum-tornadoes-twirling-in-a-supersolid-20241106/. 
  8. ↑ "Lauréate 2019 du prix Cécile DeWitt-Morette / École de Physique des Houches: Francesca Ferlaino | Lauréats | Prix et médailles | Encourager la vie scientifique". https://www.academie-sciences.fr/en/Laureats/prix-cecile-dewitt-morette-ecole-de-physique-des-houches-2019-francesca-ferlaino.html. 
  9. ↑ "BEC Award". 30 September 2020. https://bec2021.org/bec-award/. 
  10. ↑ "Accademia dei Lincei: alla napoletana Francesca Ferlaino il premio Antonio Feltrinelli" (in it). www.ilmattino.it. 9 November 2017. https://www.ilmattino.it/primopiano/scuola_e_universita/accademia_lincei_napoletana_francesca_ferlaino_premio_antonio_feltrinelli_la_fisica-3356530.html. 
  11. ↑ "Francesca Ferlaino". https://stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/preise/naturwissenschaften/erwin-schroedinger-preis/preistraegerinnen/francesca-ferlaino. 
  12. ↑ "Neue Alexander von Humboldt-Professoren ausgewählt – BMBF" (in de). https://www.bmbf.de/de/neue-alexander-von-humboldt-professoren-ausgewaehlt-526.html. 
  13. ↑ "Innsbruck researchers awarded three ERC Advanced Grants". 26 April 2022. https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2022/innsbruck-researchers-awarded-three-erc-advanced-grants/. 
  14. ↑ "Fellows elected in 2019 from the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics". APS Fellows archive. American Physical Society. https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2019&unit_id=DAMOP&institution=. 
  15. ↑ "Francesca Ferlaino elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)". 9 October 2019. https://www.oeaw.ac.at/esq/home/news-detail/francesca-ferlaino-elected-fellow-of-the-american-physical-society-aps. 
  16. ↑ "Francesca Ferlaino named Austrian Scientist of the Year" (in en-gb). 2026-01-07. https://iqoqi.at/en/current/news/1042-francesca-ferlaino-named-austrian-scientist-of-the-year. 
  17. ↑ Stani, Tina; Köttritsch, Michael (2024-10-23). "Die Österreicherinnen des Jahres 2024 stehen fest" (in de). https://www.diepresse.com/18999955/die-oesterreicherinnen-des-jahres-2024-stehen-fest. 



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