The group, June 2022. From left to right: Inès, Guillaume, Gabriel, Irene, Igor, Guillaume, Britton, Antoine, Damien, Sam, Giovanni, Florence, Cheng, Thierry.
Permanent staff
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Antoine Browaeys CNRS senior researcher (DR1) Group leader Room: R0.08 Phone: 33.79 Teaching |
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Thierry Lahaye CNRS senior researcher (DR2) In charge of the Rydberg project. Personal webpage Room: R0.04 Phone: 33.72 |
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Igor Ferrier-Barbut CNRS researcher (CRCN) In charge of the Nanocloud project. Personal webpage Room: R0.06 Phone: 33.74 |
Long-term collaborator
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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
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Dr. Giovanni Ferioli Post-doctoral researcher Nanocloud project. Room R0.06 Phone: 33.30 or 33.90 |
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Dr. Cheng Chen Post-doctoral researcher Rydberg project. Room R0.08 Phone: 33.72 or 33.89 |
PhD students
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Guillaume Bornet PhD student (3rd year) Rydberg project. Room R0.04 Phone: 33.72 |
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Gabriel Emperauger PhD student (2nd year) Rydberg project. Room R0.04 Phone: 33.39 |
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Damien Bloch PhD student (2nd year) Dy project. Room R0.L7 Phone: 33.90 |
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Britton Hofer PhD student (1st year) Dy project. Room R1.40 Phone: 33.90 |
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Sara Pancaldi PhD student (1st year) Nanocloud project. Room R1.40 Phone: 33.90 |
Interns
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Jamie Boyd Intern from the University of Oklahoma Rydberg project. Room R1.40 Phone: 33.89 |
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Bastien Gély Master 2 intern Rydberg project. Room R1.40 Phone: 33.89 |
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Valère Sautel Master 2 inter Nanocloud project. Room R0.L2 Phone: 33.90 |
Former members
- 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.
- Pascal Scholl (PhD 2021), now post-doc at Caltech, USA, in Manuel Endres’ group.
- Florian Wallner (master intern, 2021), now back to the University of Munich, Germany.
- Sara Pancaldi (master intern, 2021), now back to the University of Florence, Italy.
- 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, Palaiseau).
- 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).