Gabriele Ferrari

Associate professor

Department of Physics



Via Sommarive, 14 - 38123 Povo
tel. 0461 285333
gabriele.ferrari[at]unitn [dot] it
Education

1997 - 2000: PhD in physics at Laboratorie Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France.
Date: July 12, 2000.
Supervisor: Dr. Ch. Salomon.
Thesis: production of quantum degenerate gases of Bosonic and Fermionic lithium, and study of collisional relaxation of degenerate Fermi gases

1992 - 1997: Undergraduate studies in Physics at the University of Pisa, Italy.
Degree: M.Sc. in Physics (Laurea 110/110 cum laude).
Date: June 12, 1997.
Advisor: Prof. E. Arimondo, co-advisor Prof. J. Dalibard ENS-LKB Paris.
Thesis: realization of a magnetic trap for atomic cesium.

1992 - 1997: degree in Physics at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy.
Degree: diploma in Physics (70/70 cum laude).
Date: October 27, 1997.

Academic career and teaching activities

July 2018 - to date: associate professor
Institution: Department of Physics, University of Trento, Italy

2010 - 2018: researcher
Institution: Istituto Nazionale di Ottica-CNR at BEC Center in Trento

2008 - 2010: researcher
Institution: Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia-CNR at LENS - Florence University

2003 - 2008: researcher
Institution: Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia at LENS - Florence University

2000 - 2003: postdoc
Institution: European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy – LENS - Florence University

Research interests

Ultracold quantum gases; superfluidity and coherence; Bose-Einstein condensation; quantized vortices; quantum mixtures; quantum simulation; atomic quntum sensors; optical atomic clocks; non-equilibrium quantum dynamics.

Research work

Bibliometrics (from ISI-WoS, citation report on November 2018):

Publications: 46

H-index:  24

Average citation per article: 81.18

Citations: 3653

Memberships in societies and scientific committees

from 2017: member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Bose-Einstein Condensation - Frontiers in Quantum Gases

Other work

Referee for the journals: Science, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, Optics Letters, Optics Express, New Journal of Physics, Journal of Physics B, European Journal of Physics D, Journal of Low Temperature Physics.