I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck in the group of Prof. Francesca Ferlaino.
This website is still under construction!
Read on for more info about my research interests and publications!
Research areas
I currently have 4 main research outputs:
Supersolids
Supersolids are a paradoxical state of matter which have superfluid properties, such as frictionless flow and global phase coherence, and crystalline order of a solid.
Atomtronics
“Atomtronics” is a portmanteau of “atomic electronics”: a sub-field of ultracold atoms exploring applications of these systems to electronic devices and more broadly ultracold quantum technologies.
Dipolar gases
Bose-Einstein condensates comprised of atoms with long-range anisotropic interactions, such as erbium and dysprosium, are the building blocks for a lot of interesting proposals for quantum simulation and metrology, and are the platform that has found success in discovering supersolidity.
Medical physics
Ultrasound array transducers assume a constant speed of sound in whatever they are imaging. A pulse is emitted, and the time is measured for this pulse to return. After sweeping across left to right, an image can be made knowing only these times and estimating how far the pulse went given the speed of sound. This approximation is wrong, and there are interesting consequences of relaxing this assumption, that could lead to better imaging in the future.
Research highlights
This section is to be completed. Recent highlights include:
Thomas Bland 