Team


Principal Investigators

Francesco Scazza

Associate Professor
 Department of Physics
University of Trieste
& CNR-INO
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Matteo Marinelli

Assistant Professor (tenure track) Department of Physics
University of Trieste
& CNR-IOM
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Postdocs

Maxime
Allemand

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Francesca
Orsi

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PhD Students

Riccardo Panza

PhD program in Physics
University of Trieste
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Sara Sbernardori

PhD program in Physics
University of Trieste
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Riccardo Forti

PhD program in Electronic
Engineering
University of Trieste
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Christian Kodarin

PhD student

Department of Physics
University of Trieste
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Antonino Vardè

Master student

Department of Physics
University of Trieste
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Students

Shashank Suman

Intern student

ICTP

Eileen Tan

Erasmus+ student

Alessia Carrer

Master student

Department of Physics
University of Trieste

Yassine Ferhi

Summer student

Yuchen Song

Summer student

Past Visiting Scientists


Name Affiliation Visit
Philipp Lunt Heidelberg University May-October 2025
Natalia Bruno CNR-INO & LENS, Florence October-November 2023


Alumni

Former Group Members

Name Role Year Next at
Alessandro Muzi Falconi PhD Student 2022-2026 MPQ, Garching (Germany)
Omar Abdel Karim PhD Student 2021-2025 ALTEN, Florence (Italy)
Clara Schellong Erasmus+ Internship Student 2024 University of Hamburg (Germany)
Wenliang Liu Postdoc 2022-2024 Shanxi University, Taiyuan (China)

Master Students

Name Year Project Next at
Fabrizio Barbuio 2026 Loading a movable optical tweezer with Yb-171 atoms from a large dipole trap reservoir Erasmus+ at MPG in Munich
Bianca Bucur 2026 Driving the clock transition of optically trapped ytterbium atoms
Federica Marroccella 2025 Two-stage cooling of ytterbium atoms for optical tweezers experiments Intern student at CNR-INO
Christian Kodarin 2025 Design of an optical cavity operating in UHV for cQED experiments PhD Student at ArQuS
Antonino Vardè 2024 Trapping potentials with SLM holography Intern student at LMU
Stefano Vigneri 2023 Realization of a stable optical accordion lattice PhD student at STM lab, CNR-IOM, Trieste

Undergraduate Students

Name Year Project Next at
Mario Collodel 2026 Spettroscopia Doppler-free per la stabilizzazione in frequenza di un laser a 399 nm MSc in Physics at TUM (Germany)
Anna Vittor 2025 Analisi interferometrica della soppressione delle vibrazioni in una high-finesse cavity MSc in Physics at University of Trieste
Luigi Sodo 2025 3D modelling of a novel vacuum system apparatus BSc in Physics at University of Trieste
Fabio Spoto 2024 Programming and testing of a real-time CMOS beam profiler BSc in Physics at University of Trieste
Alberto Pancaldi 2024 Assembly and testing of 1389nm DFB laser QuanTEEM Master Program in Quantum Technologies and Engineering (UBFC/RPTU/Aarhus)
Marta Perosa 2024 Construction and testing of laser DC motor-shutters Intenrnational Master Program in Physics of Complex Systems (Trieste/Paris)
Jessica Wang 2023 Locking of a VECSEL laser to a Fabry-Perot cavity Applied Physics graduate program at Caltech
Gabriele Bartolini 2023 Absorption spectroscopy of an atomic beam of ytterbium MSc in Physics at University of Trieste
Giulia Tazzoli 2023 Characterization of custom microscope objective MSc in Quantum Science & Technology at LMU Munich
Fabrizio Barbuio 2022 AWG programming for optical tweezer generation MSc in Physics at University of Trieste
Carlo Tortora 2022 Simulation of high-field magnetic coils MSc in Physics at University of Trieste