Taken on 28th April, 2025. Standing (left to right): Milena, Hanns-Christoph, Sudipta, Camilo, Karthick, Emilio, Luiza, Xaver, Krzysztof, Yi, Yanliang, Charly, Xudong, Manuele, Yijing, Reza, Zekui. Sitting: Good. Image credits to Alberto Canali.
Principal Investigator
![Principal Investigator
[email]christoph.naegerl@uibk.ac.at[/email]
Phone: 43 512 507 52420](https://i0.wp.com/quantummatter.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/naegerl_portrait_blue_149x200.png?resize=149%2C200&ssl=1 "Hanns-Christoph Nägerl")
Administration
![Group secretary
[email]naegerl-office@uibk.ac.at[/email]
Phone: 43 512 507 52414](https://i0.wp.com/quantummatter.at/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Annarie-Lotter_crop.png?resize=149%2C199&ssl=1 "Annarie Lotter")
![Group secretary
[email]naegerl-office@uibk.ac.at[/email]
Phone: 43-512-507-52412](https://i0.wp.com/quantummatter.at/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CAPPELLINI_Diana-683x1024.jpg?resize=149%2C199&ssl=1 "Diana Capellini")
Senior Scientist
Postdocs
Yanliang Guo
Yi Zeng
Xudong Yu
![Postdoc[br]
[email]milena.horvath@uibk.ac.at[/email][br]
Phone: 43 512 507 52447](https://i0.wp.com/quantummatter.at/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MilenaNew_crop-771x1024.jpg?resize=149%2C199&ssl=1 "Milena Horvath")
PhD students
![PhD student[br]
[email]camilo.cantillano@uibk.ac.at[/email][br]
Phone: 43 512 507 52432](https://i0.wp.com/quantummatter.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/CANTILLANO_Camilo-Web.jpg?resize=149%2C199&ssl=1 "Camilo Cantillano")
Camilo Cantillano
![PhD student[br]
[email]sudipta.dhar@uibk.ac.at[/email][br]
Phone: 43 512 507 52426](https://i0.wp.com/quantummatter.at/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/DHAR_Sudipta_web.jpg?resize=149%2C199&ssl=1 "Sudipta Dhar")
Sudipta Dhar
![PhD student[br]
[email]Charly.Beulenkamp@uibk.ac.at[/email][br]
Phone: 43 512 507 52434](https://i0.wp.com/quantummatter.at/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/BEULENKAMP_Charly_web_4_to_3-768x1024.jpg?resize=149%2C199&ssl=1 "Charly Beulenkamp")
Charly Beulenkamp
![PhD student[br]
[email]Krzysztof.Zamarski@uibk.ac.at[/email][br]
Phone: 43 512 507 52448](https://i0.wp.com/quantummatter.at/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ZAMARSKI-Krzysztof-klein.jpg?resize=149%2C199&ssl=1 "Krzysztof Zamarski")
Krzysztof Zamarski
Reza Mosala Nejad
![PhD student[br]
[email]karthick.ramanathan@uibk.ac.at[/email][br]
Phone:](https://i0.wp.com/quantummatter.at/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4559-683x1024.png?resize=149%2C199&ssl=1 "Karthick Ramanathan")
Karthick Ramanathan
![PhD student[br]
[email]Emilio.Aguilera-Valdes@uibk.ac.at[/email][br]
Phone:](https://i0.wp.com/quantummatter.at/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Emilio_cropped.jpg?resize=149%2C199&ssl=1 "Emilio Aguilera")
Emilio Aguilera
![PhD student[br]
[email]Luiza.Krbashian@uibk.ac.at[/email][br]
Phone:](https://i0.wp.com/quantummatter.at/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Louisa-Krbashian_crop-822x1024.png?resize=149%2C199&ssl=1 "Luiza Krbashian")
Luiza Krbashian
Igor Zhuravlev
Master students
![Master student[br]
[email]Saloni.Chourasiya@uibk.ac.at[/email][br]](https://i0.wp.com/quantummatter.at/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Saloni_cropped.jpg?resize=149%2C199&ssl=1 "Saloni Chourasiya")
Saloni Chourasiya
![Master student[br]
[email]Xaver.Pietsch@student.uibk.ac.at[/email][br]
Phone: 43 512 507 52919](https://i0.wp.com/quantummatter.at/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Xaver-Pietsch_crop-749x1024.png?resize=149%2C199&ssl=1 "Xaver Pietsch")
Xaver Pietsch
Former Postdocs
- Dizhou Xie, 2022-2024. Now at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
- Zekai Chen, 2022-2024. Now at University of Rochester
- Dechao Zhang, 2020-2023. Now at North Carolina State University.
- Arpita Das, 2021-2023. Now at Durham University.
- Bodhaditya Santra, 2018-2019. Now at IIT Delhi
- Andreas Schindewolf, 2019. Now at Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik
- Michael Gröbner, 2017-2019. Now in private sector
- Emil Kirilov, 2012-2016. Now in the Ultracold Group – Grimm, University of Innsbruck
- Florian Meinert, 2016. Now at University of Stuttgart
- Tetsu Takekoshi, 2009-2015. Now in the Quantum Optics and Spectroscopy Group, University of Innsbruck
- Manfred J. Mark, 2012-2014. Now in the Dipolar Quantum Gases Group, University of Innsbruck
- Johann G. Danzl, 2010-2012. Now at the IST Austria
- Elmar Haller, 2010-2011. Now at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
- Russell Hart, 2008-2010. Now at Rice University, Texas
- Steven Knoop, 2007-2009. Now at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Former PhD students
- Milena Horvath, 2025.
- Deborah Capecchi, 2024. Now at CNR-Nanotech in Lecce.
- Govind Unnikrishnan, 2022. Now at the University of Stuttgart.
- Philipp Weinmann, 2020
- Andreas Schindewolf, 2018
- Katharina Lauber, 2018
- Lukas Reichsöllner, 2018
- Michael Gröbner, 2017
- Florian Meinert, 2016
- Markus Debatin, “Ultracold RbCs Ground-State Molecules”, 2013. Now at the University of Kassel
- Manfred J. Mark, 2012
- Almar Lercher (formerly Lange), 2010. Now in private sector (patent law)
- Elmar Haller, 2010
- Johann G. Danzl, 2010
- Mattias Gustavsson, 2008. Now in private sector
Former Master students
- Beatrix Mayr, 2025
- Erik Richter-Alten, 2025
- Florian Reiter, 2023
- Satwik Ramanjanappa, 2023
- Johannes Willi, 2020
- Elisabeth Thaler, 2019
- Peter Oles, 2017
- Nina Fahrner, 2017
- Benjamin Ziernhöld, 2017
- Miroslaw Marszalek, 2017
- Gregor Anich, 2016
- Maximilian Segl, 2015
- Verena Pramhaas, 2014
- Carl Hippler, 2013
- Michael Gröbner, 2013
- Benjamin Rutschmann, 2012
- Raffael Rameshan, 2012
- Mohammed Rabie, 2011
- Oliver Krieglsteiner, 2011
- Andreas Klinger, 2011
- Lukas Reichsöllner, 2010
- Manfred J. Mark, 2007
- Gabriel Rojas-Kopeinig, 2007
- Johann G. Danzl, 2007
- Anton Flir, 2006
- Peter Unterwaditzer, 2005