Team
Francesco Scazza
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Physics
University of Trieste
Curriculum Vitae
Email Google Scholar LinkedIn
Matteo Marinelli
Assistant Professor(tenure track)
Department of Physics
University of Trieste
Curriculum Vitae
Email Google Scholar
Maxime
Allemand
Postdoc | FERMI experimentDepartment of Physics
University of Trieste
Email
Google Scholar
Riccardo Panza
PhD student | FERMI experimentPhD program in Physics
University of Trieste
Email
Google Scholar
Riccardo Forti
PhD student | FERMI experimentPhD program in Electronic
Engineering
University of Trieste
Email
Francesca
Orsi
Postdoc | QUICS & FERMI experimentsDepartment of Physics
University of Trieste
Email
Google Scholar
Long-term Visitors
| 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 | FERMI experiment | 2022-2026 | MPQ, Garching (Germany) |
| Omar Abdel Karim | PhD Student | FERMI experiment | 2021-2025 | ALTEN, Florence (Italy) |
| Clara Schellong | Erasmus+ Internship Student | FERMI experiment | 2024 | University of Hamburg (Germany) |
| Wenliang Liu | Postdoc | FERMI experiment | 2022-2024 | Shanxi University, Taiyuan (China) |
Master Students
| Name | Year | Project | Next at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fabrizio Barbuio | 2026 | Loading a movable optical tweezer with ytterbium atoms from a large dipole trap reservoir | Erasmus+ at MPQ Garching |
| 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 Trieste |
| Christian Kodarin | 2025 | Design of an optical cavity operating in UHV for cQED experiments | PhD Student at ArQuS lab |
| Antonino Vardè | 2024 | Trapping potentials with SLM holography | Internship student at LMU Munich and PhD student at ArQuS lab |
| Sara Sbernardori | 2024 | Realization of a clock laser source for the 1S0-3P0 transition of ytterbium | PhD Student at ArQuS lab |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yuchen Song | 2026 | Simulation of spin-selective spilling from optical tweezers | BSc in Physics at Beijing University |
| Yassine Ferhi | 2026 | Experiment control automation by M-LOOP | MSc at Institut d'Optique Palaiseau |
| Simone Repic | 2026 | Transfer cavity locking of a 1389 nm DFB source | Erasmus+ at Innsbruck University |
| Diego Giacometti | 2026 | Injection-locking of a 399 nm laser diode | BSc in Physics at University of Trieste |
| Chiara Daniel | 2026 | Simulation of high-field imaging on the 1S0-1P1 transition of Yb-171 | - |
| Stefano Pizzinato | 2026 | Fluorescence detection techniques for the nuclear spin of Yb-171 | International Master Program in Physics of Complex Systems (Trieste/Paris) |
| Francesco Alfieri | 2026 | 3D modelling of a novel vacuum system apparatus | MSc in Physics at University of Trieste |
| Mario Collodel | 2026 | Doppler-free spectroscopy for laser frequency stabilization at 399 nm | MSc in Physics at TUM (Germany) |
| Anna Vittor | 2025 | Interferometric analysis for vibration suppression of a high-finesse cavity | MSc in Physics at University of Trieste |
| Andrea Boscaglia | 2025 | Optical Stern-Gerlach readout of single ytterbium atoms | MSc in Physics at University of Trieste |
| Rebecca De Moliner | 2025 | Analysis of the background noise of EMCCD and qCMOS camera sensors | MSc in Physics at University of Trieste |
| Luigi Sodo | 2025 | 3D modelling of a novel vacuum system apparatus | MSc in Physics at University of Trieste |
| Fabio Spoto | 2024 | Programming and testing of a real-time CMOS beam profiler | MSc 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 | International 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 |