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Robin Kaiser

Robin Kaiser is a CNRS research director and the head of the team. He was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant in 2019 (ANDLICA project) and is also the principal investigator of the QUANTERA PACE-IN project. He is in charge of the Ytterbium experiment, the quantum fluid of light experiment, and is involved in all other projects too!
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Anders Kastberg

Anders Kastberg has been a full professor at Université Côte d'Azur since 2009, where he teaches quantum mechanics and atomic physics. His current research interest is on spectroscopy for probing fondamental effects. He's also Editor in chief of Kosmos, the review of the Swedish Physics Society.
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Guillaume Labeyrie

Guillaume Labeyrie is a CNRS research director and has been in the group since 1998 (almost its beginning). He's in charge of one cold-atom experiment, where he investigates nonlinear self-organization effects and light-induced long-range forces. He's also involved in the I2C project.
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Mathilde Hugbart

Mathilde Hugbart is a CNRS research director since 2022 (CNRS researcher since 2006) and joined the group in 2015. She's in charge of one of the cold-atom experiments ("Rb1") and is the principal investigator of the ANR project QuaCor, in collaboration with Brazilian researchers. She is also involved in the PACE-IN and I2C projects. She has been deputy director of INPHYNI since 2021.
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William Guerin

William Guerin has been a CNRS researcher in the group since 2012. He's in charge of one of the cold-atom experiments ("Rb2"), which is involved in the PACE-IN, QuaCor and 1DOrder projects. He is also the principal investigator of the ANR project I2C, in collaboration with astrophysicists, and the co-PI of the ANR project 1DOrder, in collaboration with researchers from Toulouse and Paris.
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Invited researcher

Romain Bachelard

Romain Bachelard is an Assistant Professor at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in Brazil. He has been collaborating with our team since 2012, doing theory on cooperative scattering. He is also an official partner of the ANR project QuaCor. He'll be with us for one year with a grant from UCA.
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Postdocs

Pierre Azam

Pierre Azam did his PhD thesis in the group on "Quantum fluids of light in hot atomic vapors" (defended in September 2021). He's staying as a post-doc on an engineering project in order to make his experiment more compact, robust and automated, in view of future applications.
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Romain Caldani

Romain Caldani arrived in the group in Sept. 2022. He graduated in Paris with a PhD thesis at SYRTE. He's working on the Rb2 experiment in the framework of the PACE-IN project.
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Hodei Eneriz

Hodei Eneriz arrived in the group in Feb. 2022 after graduating at the University of Bordeaux. Before that he studied in Spain. He's working on the Rb1 experiment in the framework of the QuaCor project.
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Dilleys Ferreira da Silva

Dilleys arrived in September 2022 and will stay one year. She has a fellowship from the Brazilian agency CAPES and she will work with Mathilde Hugbart in the framework of the QuaCor project. Before, she did her PhD in Sao Carlos (Brazil) and she already did a post-doc in our group in 2018-2019.

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Antoine Glicenstein

After graduating from the Institut d'Optique (Palaiseau, France), where he performed experiments on collective effects in light-matter interaction, Antoine joined the group in February 2023. He's working on the Ytterbium experiment in the framework of the ANDLICA project.

Nolan Matthews

Nolan Matthews arrived in the group in April 2021 after graduating at the University of Salt Lake City (USA). He's working on intensity interferometry in the framework of the ANR project I2C.
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PhD students

Apoorva

After studying physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Apoorva started her PhD thesis in May 2022. She's working on the Yb experiment in the framework of the ANDLICA project under the supervision of Robin Kaiser.
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Stephan Asselie

After studying physics in Paris, Stephan started his PhD thesis in October 2020. He's working on the Rb2 experiment in the framework of the PACE-IN project, under the supervision of William Guerin.
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Hector Letellier

After studying physics and optical engineering at the Institut d'Optique (Palaiseau), Hector started his PhD thesis in October 2019. He's working on the Yb experiment in the framework of the ANDLICA project under the supervision of Robin Kaiser.
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Álvaro de Melo

After studying physics at Recife (Brazil), Álvaro started his PhD thesis in January 2020. He's working on the Yb experiment in the framework of the ANDLICA project under the supervision of Robin Kaiser.
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Martial Morisse

After engineering studies in Lille and some experience as data analyst, Martial started his PhD thesis in October 2020. He's working on the Rb1 experiment in the framework of the QuaCor project, under the supervision of Mathilde Hugbart and Robin Kaiser.
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Group picture (November 2022)

From left to right: William Guerin, Apoorva, Nolan Matthews, Stephan Asselie, Mathilde Hugbart, Hector Letellier, Guillaume Labeyrie, Robin Kaiser, Pierre Azam, Romain Caldani, Hodei Heneriz, Alvaro de Melo, Matteus Biscassi, Heitor da Silva. Absent on the picture but shown below: Martial Morisse, Pierre Lassègues, Anders Kastberg, Romain Bachelard, Dilleys Ferreira.