Igor Lesanovsky is ERC startup grant holder and Professor of Physics at the University of Nottingham in the UK.
Igor’s research interests are:
- Strongly correlated spin systems
- Relaxation and thermalization of closed quantum systems
- Trapping and manipulation of highly excited (Rydberg) atoms
- Collective phenomena in ultracold atomic gases
- Creation of non-classical states of light and matter
- Quantum Information with atoms and trapped ions
- Non-equilibrium in open quantum systems
Brief CV
since 2011 Associate Professor and Reader in Physics (University of Nottingham/UK)
2009 – 2011 Lecturer in Physics (University of Nottingham/UK)
2007 – 2009 PostDoc (University of Innsbruck/Austria)
2006 PostDoc (FORTH IESL, Heraklion/Greece)
2003 – 2006 PhD (University of Heidelberg/Germany)