Onur Hosten (Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor) / since 1. June 2018
Onur received his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Paul Kwiat. He was a postdoctoral scholar and then a staff scientist at Stanford University in the group of Mark Kasevich. He joined IST Austria as an Assistant Professor in 2018, starting the experimental group ‘Quantum Sensing with atoms and Light’.
Career
since 2018 Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
2015 – 2017 Research Associate, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
2010 – 2015 Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University , Palo Alto, USA
2010 PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Postdocs
Fritz Diorico (Postdoc & TWIST Fellow) / since 15. July 2018
Fritz joined the group just a month after its formation at ISTA. He did his PhD on combining cold atoms and superconducting circuits at the TU Vienna in Joerg Schmiedmayer’s group. He obtained his MSc in Photonics in Belgium and Scotland under the Erasmus Mundus scholarship. Contrary to his German name, Fritz grew up in the Philippines and has no German or Austrian blood connection.
Teodor Strömberg (Postdoc) / since 15. May 2024
Teodor carried out his PhD at the University of Vienna in Philip Walther’s group, where he worked on the generation and manipulation of single-photon states for performing quantum information tasks. He received his MSc in Engineering Physics from LTH in Sweden, writing his thesis on the topic of laser stabilization using slow-light cavities. As a member of the Hosten lab, Teodor will work on realising entanglement between an atomic ensemble and an optomechanical system for motional sensing.
Students & Scientific Interns
Vyacheslav Li (PhD student) / since 15. September 2018
Vyacheslav received his Bachelor’s degree from Nazarbayev University, Astana. He wrote his thesis on Brillouin Scattering for probing elastic properties of matter under the supervision of Zhandos Utegulov. In 2018 Vyacheslav joined Hosten group as a PhD student. His current work is mostly focused on improving technologies for precision measurements such as magnetic field stabilization or laser frequency offset stabilization.
Sebastian Wald (PhD student) / since 15. September 2019
Sebastian joined the group in 2019 to work on a project, where we want to realize an entanglement enhanced atom interferometer with spatially squeezed states. Previously he received his MSc in Physics at TU Wien in 2017. For his Master’s thesis, he joined the group of Jörg Schmiedmayer to investigate the longitudinal relaxation of NV– electron spin ensembles at cryogenic temperatures under the supervision of Johannes Majer.
Sofia Agafonova (PhD student) / since 1. August 2021
Sofia came to ISTA from Russia where she did her bachelor and master thesis at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Both works were devoted to compact sources of frequency combs based on optical microresonators. In Onur’s group, Sofia works in the field of quantum optomechanics where she designs, builds and characterizes mechanical pendulums, and (hopefully) brings them to the quantum regime and use them in sensing applications.
Umang Mishra (PhD student) / since 1. August 2022
Umang completed his undergraduate studies in Physics from New York University Abu Dhabi in 2021. His undergraduate thesis was on the development of a multilayer dielectric haloscope experiment for dark matter detection under the supervision of Prof. Francesco Arneodo. As part of the Hosten Lab, Umang will be working alongside Sofia on optomechanical cooling of milligram scale torsional pendulums and their applications in tests for fundamental physics.
Edward-Fulbright Gheorghita (PhD student) / since 1. August 2023
Edward joined this group in 2022 to work on the entanglement enhanced atom interferometer. Previously, he received his master’s degree from the University of Barcelona in Quantum Science and Technology where he worked on the theoretical development of one-axis twisting in nearest-neighboring quantum systems. In 2021, Edward received his bachelor’s degree from Belmont University in Nashville, TN
Alexei Gurchenko (PhD student) / since 1. August 2024
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Renze Theodor Suters (Scientific Intern) / 1. July 2024
I’m Renze, an enthusiastic physics student at Delft University of Technology from the Netherlands. I received bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Astronomy at Leiden University and I’m currently in the last stages of my Master’s Applied Physics with a focus on quantum.
In my free time, I like language learning, karate and I just started weightlifting, alongside other hobbies 😉
Vincenzo Triglione (summer intern) / 1. July – 15. September 2024
Vincenzo completed his Bachelor’s studies in Physics at the University of Turin in 2023, and he is currently pursuing his master’s degree in physics at Aix-Marseille University. He will join Prof. Hosten’s Lab for the ISTernship program, working on milligram scale torsional pendulums and their applications in fundamental physics tests.