Theorists working at the interface of condensed matter, chemical, and atomic physics. We are based at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
An experimental paper, in which Igor Cherepanov and Misha Lemeshko had an honor to participate, has been selected as a PRL Editor’s suggestion and highlighted in Physics:
Physics synopsis: Small Molecules Twirl Freely in a Helium Droplet
Alberto Cappellaro has been awarded an APART-MINT fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for his proposal “Non-Equilibrium Molecular Rotations in Fermionic Environments”.
The funding will allow him to explore his ideas on applying the Keldysh functional integral formalism to molecular rotations.
Congratulations, Alberto!
Congratulations to Wojciech Rzadkowski who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Analytic and machine learning approaches to composite quantum impurities”.
Wojciech is going to pursue his passion to machine learning at Google Zurich. Congratulations!
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Check out our new review/perspective article on Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity – a field that we are quite excited about (and honored to be a part of):
It’s listed as a part of the Advanced Materials “Hall of Fame” (whatever that means)
A paper by Fumika Suzuki in collaboration with Wojciech Zurek and Roman Krems was published today:
Dr. Alberto Cappellaro has just joined the group as an IST fellow. Here is how Alberto describes his way here:
I was born, raised and educated in Padova, an Italian city on the west of Venice and south of Prosecco hills, mostly famous for its University, one of the oldest in the whole of Europe. There, under the supervision of Prof. Luca Salasnich I got my Master’s degree (2014) and a Phd in Physics (2018), working mostly with the theory of many-body quantum states. A great share of my research effort has been devoted to cold atoms (one of the most exciting setup ever) and their self-bound states (droplets, solitons, filaments and so on). More recently I got interested in (quantum) hydrodynamics and the old issue of sound propagation, but revisited for quantum fluids.
After the first postdoctoral appointment in Italy, in February 2021 I joined the group of Prof. Lemeshko, fascinated by their scientific quests at the boundary between molecular physics, condensed matter and the theory of open quantum systems. Besides cold atoms and fluctuating fields, I enjoy my free time playing (and talking about) basketball and football, reading crime novels and watching TV series (Twin Peaks above all)
New paper on topological properties of molecular impurities, in collaboration with the group of Robert Seiringer:
Corona-time defenses are tough!
Congratulations to Xiang Li, who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Rotation of coupled cold molecules in the presence of a many-body environment”
Li is going to move on to an assistant professor position at the School of Physics and Optoelectronic engineering, XiDian University, China
Congratulations, Li!
The Young Academy consists of up to 70 already established young scientists from various disciplines who have excelled in their fields. Its goal is to promote scientific exchange and thus to enable innovative research. “I grew up as a scientist in a physics bubble. At IST, I have the great opportunity to talk to biologists, mathematicians, and chemists, but I never had much contact with the humanities. I’m looking forward to being able to exchange ideas with humanities researchers from now on because I have no idea how they think and approach scientific problems,” says Mikhail Lemeshko.
It’s a pleasure to welcome Lorant Szegedy as a joint postdoctoral fellow in the Lemeshko and Hausel groups. Here is how Lorant describes his way here:
“I grew up in Budapest, where I also finished my Bachelor Degree in Physics. Then I went on to study Mathematical Physics at the University of Hamburg, where I obtained my PhD in Mathematics in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Ingo Runkel. After finishing my PhD, I spent 6 months at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn and another year in Hamburg as a postdoc. At the beginning of 2020 moved to IST Austria as a joint postdoctoral fellow in the groups of Prof. Mikhail Lemeshko and Prof. Tamas Hausel. I am interested in Mathematical Physics, in particular in low dimensional quantum field theories with defects, TQFTs, 2d CFTs, higher categories, quantum groups, moduli spaces and all sorts of Physics where these appear.“
