Tutorial Speakers

Dr Benjamin BESGA, ILM, Université Lyon I

"Stochastic thermodynamics experiments in an optical trap"

Benjamin Besga is a CNRS researcher at the Institut Lumière Matière near Lyon. His research focuses on the study of the optical and mechanical properties of luminescent nano-particles in an optical trap. He obtained his PhD in quantum optics in Paris (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel). He then studied optomechanics in Sydney (Macquarie University) and Grenoble (Institut Néel), before turning to non-equilibrium thermodynamics in Lyon (ENS Lyon).

Dr Thomas Brunet, Université de Bordeaux

"Experimental search for 3D Anderson localisation of acoustic (scalar) waves"

Pr Tracy Northup, University of Innsbruck, Austria

“Levitated optomechanics with nanoparticles in an ion trap”

 Tracy Northup is a professor of experimental physics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Her research explores quantum interfaces between light and matter, focusing on trapped-ion and cavity-based interfaces for quantum networks and quantum optomechanics. She received her PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 2008 and then held an appointment as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Innsbruck, where she was the recipient of a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship and an Elise Richter Fellowship. She became an assistant professor at the University of Innsbruck in 2015 and has been a full professor since 2017; she held an Ingeborg Hochmair Professorship from 2017 to 2022.

Dr Clément Lacroute (Institut FEMTO-ST)

Pr Pascal Ruello, Université du Mans

Pr Clivia Sotomayor, International Iberial Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal

Clivia obtained her PhD in Physics (Manchester Univ., UK 1984). She held tenured appointments at St. Andrews and Glasgow Universities and became a C4 professor at Wuppertal Univ. (Germany 1996). During 2004-8 she was a research professor at Univ. College Cork, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland). Since 2007 she is at ICN2 and heads a 17-strong team working on phonon engineering and nanofabrication.Her group investigates new concepts for multi-state variables based on the engineered interactions of phonons with photons, electrons and magnons, in device-like structures.