Igor Lesanovsky

05/2006 – 12/2006 Theory Postdoc

ERCIgor is now a full Professor and ERC startup prize winner at University of Tuebingen.

He has recently won the Maxwell medal.

 

His research interests are:

  • Strongly correlated spin systems
  • Relaxation and thermalization of closed quantum systems
  • Trapping and manipulation of highly excited (Rydberg) atoms
  • Collective phenomena in ultracold atomic gases
  • Creation of non-classical states of light and matter
  • Quantum Information with atoms and trapped ions
  • Non-equilibrium in open quantum systems

Brief CV

  • 2019 – now — Professor for Theoretical Atomic Physics and Synthetic Quantum Systems (U. of Tuebingen, Germany)
  • 2013 – 2019 — Professor of Physics (University of Nottingham/UK)
  • 2011 – 2013 — Associate Professor and Reader in Physics (University of Nottingham/UK)
  • 2009 – 2011 — Lecturer in Physics (University of Nottingham/UK)
  • 2007 – 2009 — PostDoc (University of Innsbruck/Austria)
  • 2006 – 2006 — PostDoc (FORTH IESL, Heraklion/Greece)
  • 2003 – 2006 — PhD (University of Heidelberg/Germany)