Academic staff

Robin Kaiser
Robin Kaiser


Robin Kaiser

Robin Kaiser is a CNRS research director. He was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant in 2019 (ANDLICA project) and a second ERC grant in 2024 (IC4Stars project). He is in charge of the Ytterbium experiment, the quantum fluid of light experiment, and is more or less involved in other projects too!
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Anders Kastberg
Anders Kastberg


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


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 ("Rb3"), 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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William Guerin
William Guerin


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.
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William Guerin
William Guerin


William Guerin

William Guerin has been a CNRS researcher in the group since 2012 and the head of the team since 2024. 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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Raphael
Raphael


Raphaël Saint-Jalm

Raphaël Saint-Jalm is an Assistant Professor at Université Côte d'Azur. After his PhD thesis in the group of Jean Dalibard in Paris and a post-doc in the group of Immanuel Bloch in Munich, Raphaël joined the group in September 2023. He is involved in the ANDLICA project. 
 
 

Postdocs

 
Stephan
Stephan


Stephan Asselie

Stephan Asselie joined the Rb1 experiment with Mathilde Hugbart as a post-doc in December 2024, just after defending his PhD thesis, done on the Rb2 experiment with William Guerin.
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Daniel Benedicto
Daniel Benedicto


Daniel Benedicto Orenes

Daniel Benedicto Orenes obtained his PhD at the University of Birmingham (UK). After that, he has been a postdoctoral researcher at LENS (Italy), and ICFO (Spain). He joined the Ytterbium experiment in 2024 as a MSCA fellow.
 
 
Romain
Romain


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 and 1DOrder projects.
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Ana Cipris
Ana Cipris


Ana Cipris

Ana Cipris is visiting our group from October 2014 to March 2025 with a FAPESP fellowship. She is a post-doc at the State University of São Paulo in São Carlos (Brazil). Before that, she did a PhD in our team and a short post-doc in Zagreb. She is working on the Rb1 experiment under the supervision of Mathilde Hugbart.
 

PhD students

Apoorva
Apoorva


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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Meteus
Meteus


Mateus A. F. Biscassi

After studying physics in São Carlos (Brazil), Mateus started his PhD in June 2021. It' a joint PhD between the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) and Université Côte d'Azur (UCA) under the co-supervision of Romain Bachelard and Mathilde Hugbart. Mateus is doing theory in the framework of the QuaCor project. He has spent one year with us, went back to Brazil and is now back with us for another year.
 

Adam
Adam


Adam Gabteni

After studying Physics in Nice, Adam started his PhD in October 2024 under the supervision of Robin Kaiser. He is working on a hot vapor experiment in the framework of the ANR project WANOO.


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Naudson L. Lopes Matias

After studying in Recife, Naudson started his PhD in October 2024 under the supervision of Robin Kaiser. He is working on the ytterbium experiment in the framework of the ANR project LILOA.
 

Martial
Martial


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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Jean-Marcel
Jean-Marcel


Jean-Marcel Nazon

After studying physics in Nice, Jean-Marcel started his PhD thesis in October 2023. He's working on the Rb2 experiment in the framework of the ANR project 1DOrder under the supervision of William Guerin.
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Apoorav
Apoorav


Apoorav S. Deo

After studying physics in India, Apoorav started his PhD thesis in October 2024. He will work on the Rb1 experiment under the supervision of Mathilde Hugbart.
 
Sarah Tolila
Sarah Tolila


Sarah Tolila

After studying Physics in Nice, Sarah started her PhD in October 2024 under the supervision of William Guerin and Guillaume Labeyrie. She is working on the intensity interferometry project in the framework of the ERC project IC4Stars.

 

Research assistants

 
Romain Astorga-Petit
Romain Astorga-Petit


Romain Astorga-Petit

After studying physics in Strasbourg, Romain joined the team in December 2024 to work on the hot vapor experiment in the framework of the ANR project WANOO under the supervision of Robin Kaiser.

 

Group picture (November 2022)


Group picture
Group picture William Guerin

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.