Valtolina
I am a JILA postdoc in the ultracold KRb polar molecules experiment in the Ye group. We are developing a new apparatus for enhanced control at the single-molecule level with both electric and optical fields. I completed my PhD at Scuola Normale Superiore - Pisa, working in Massimo Inguscio's group at LENS - Florence on the dynamics and transport properties of strongly interacting atomic Fermi gases.
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