People

The group, April 2025. From left to right, standing: Antoine, Sara, Nathan, Olivia, Igor, Bastien, Lukas, Chew, Britton, Adrien, Giulio, Mu, Thierry, Damien, Florence, Martin. Sitting: Théo, Romain, Guillaume.

Permanent staff

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Antoine Browaeys
CNRS senior researcher
Group leader
Room: R0.08
Phone: 33.79
Teaching
TL_www_2024 Thierry Lahaye
CNRS senior researcher (DR2)
In charge of the (new) Rydberg project.
Personal webpage
Room: R0.04
Phone: 33.72
IFB Igor Ferrier-Barbut
CNRS researcher (CRCN)
In charge of the Nanocloud and Dysprosium projects.
Personal webpage
Room: R0.06
Phone: 33.74

Long-term collaborator

DB Dr. Daniel Barredo
Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow at CINN in Oviedo, Spain. A former senior post-doc in the group, Daniel keeps being activley involved in all our projects.

Post-Docs

mu_www Dr. Mu Qiao
Post-doctoral researcher
Rydberg project.
Room R0.08
Phone: 33.72 or 33.89
Giulio_Biagioni_www Dr. Giulio Biagioni
Post-doctoral researcher
Dy project.
Room R0.L7
Phone: 33.90
yukiTORIICHEW Dr. Yuki Torii Chew
Post-doctoral researcher
Rydberg project.
Room R0.08
Phone: 33.72

PhD students

Britton_Hofer Britton Hofer
PhD student (4th year)
Dy project.
Room R1.40
Phone: 33.90
BGely_small Bastien Gély
PhD student (3rd year)
Rydberg projects (old and new).
Room R1.36
Phone: 33.89
LK Lukas Klein
PhD student (3rd year)
Rydberg projects (new).
Room R1.36
Phone: 33.89
adrien_www Adrien Gavalda
PhD student (3rd year)
Phoeniqs project.
Room R0.06
Phone: 33.90
GT_small Guillaume Tremblier
Phd student (2nd year)
Phoeniqs project.
Room R0.06
Phone: 33.90
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Nathan Bonvalet
Phd student (2nd year)
Dy project.
Room R0.L7
Phone: 33.90
Romain Martin www Romain Martin
Phd student (2nd year)
Rydberg project.
Room R1.17
Phone: 33.89
Théo Dardier
Phd student (1st year)
Dy project.
Room R0.L7
Phone: 33.90
Martin Poitrinal
Phd student (1st year)
Phoeniqs project.
Room R0.06
Phone: 33.90

Interns

   

Former members

  • Sara Pancaldi (PhD 2025).
  • Olivia Rosenstein (intern 2025), now PhD student in Nelson Darkwah Oppong’s group, Caltech.
  • Damien Bloch (PhD 2025), now a post-doc in the group of Julian Léonard, IST Austria.
  • Gabriel Emperauger (PhD 2025), now a post-doc in the group of Marc Vrakking, MBI, Berlin.
  • Guillaume Bornet (PhD 2024), now a post-doc in the group of Jeff Thompson at Princeton.
  • Cheng Chen (post-doc, 2021-2024), now starting his group at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
  • Giovanni Ferioli (post-doc, 2020-2023), now starting his group at LENS, Italy.
  • Jamie Boyd (intern, 2023), now PhD student in Adam Kaufman’s group, JILA, USA.
  • Sam Cohen (intern, 2022), now Phd student in Monika Schleier-Smith’s group, Stanford, USA.
  • Kai-Niklas Schymik (PhD 2022), now post-doc at Qtech, NL, in Tim Taminiau’s group.
  • Antoine Glicenstein (PhD 2022), now post-doc at INPHYNI, Nice, in Robin Kaiser’s group.
  • Pascal Scholl (PhD 2021), now project leader at PASQAL, Massy.
  • Florian Wallner (master intern, 2021), now back to the University of Munich, Germany.
  • Sara Pancaldi (master intern, 2021), now back in the group for her PhD.
  • Hannah Williams (post-doc, 2019-2021),  now Assistant Professor at Durham University, UK.
  • Nikola Sibalic (post-doc, 2018-2020).
  • Ludovic Brossard (PhD 2020).
  • Vincent Lienhard (PhD 2019), now post-doc at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
  • Yvan Sortais (Assistant Prof. 2004-2019, now in charge of Industrial Photonics at LCF, IOGS).
  • Thomas Boulier (Post-doc 2018-2019, now post-doc at LKB, Paris).
  • Tom Peyrot (PhD 2019, now teaching physics as “prof agrégé” in a highschool)
  • Sylvain de Léséleuc (PhD 2018, now Assistant professor at IMS, Okazaki, Japan)
  • Eric Magnan (PhD 2018, now R&D engineer at Thales)
  • Stephan Jennewein (PhD 2017, now working for Opitz Consulting, Berlin).
  • Henning Labuhn (PhD 2016, now Data Scientist, Shift Technology, Paris).
  • Joseph Pellegrino (PhD 2015, now Data Scientist, Kernix, Paris)
  • Sylvain Ravets (PhD 2014, now CNRS researcher at the C2N, in the team of J. Bloch).
  • Ronan Bourgain (PhD 2014, now Senior Associate, L.E.K. Consulting, Paris).
  • Charles Tuchendler (PhD 2014, now CPGE physics teacher, Lycée Saint-Louis, Paris).
  • Aline Vernier (Post-doc 2011-2013, now Research engineer at LOA, Ensta, Palaiseau)
  • Lucas Béguin (PhD 2013, now Quantum Engineer at PASQAL, Massy).
  • Charles Evellin (PhD 2011, co-founder of MalinTools).
  • Andreas Fuhrmanek (PhD 2011, now consultant at Altair Managment).
  • Tatiana Wilk (Post-doc 2008-2010, now at MPQ in G. Rempe’s group).