Daniel Sahagún Sánchez

Marie-Curie postdoc
(October 2006 - April 2010)

Email: daniel (at) bec.gr

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Daniel was born in Mexico where he did his undergraduate studies in the National University of Mexico (UNAM). After that I spent a year in The University of Manchester, collaborating with the liquid crystal group of Prof. Tom Mullin. Thanks to one of the lectures that he took in Manchester he discovered atom optics, and decided to join the group of Ed Hinds once it was still in Sussex University, UK. The group then moved tothe Centre for Cold Matter at Imperial College London. There he completed his PhD in July 2006 on the interaction of ultra cold atoms with the surface of atom chips.

He has now a position as post-doctoral researcher in Singapore. He writes from there:

I am based now in the group of Bjorn Hessmo at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, at the National University of Singapore. Here we are building an atom chip experiment for 1D degenerate quantum gases. Our aim is to explore chains of cold atoms to study their quantum properties and thermodynamics. With these systems one can create spin arrays that in principle, can be arrays of quantum gates. A very important part of these experiments is the imaging system since we will be looking at very little quantities of atoms. In Crete, amongst other tools for manipulating Bose-Einstein Condensates, we developed a very sensitive absorption imaging system using dark ground imaging. We want to setup this it also in Singapore. There is a very close collaboration between the two groups. I do at least one trip per year to Crete to collaborate on this, and other projects that we have in common.