Iacopo Carusotto

Born in Pisa (Italy) on january 23rd, 1975

Actual position: Senior Researcher at the INO-CNR BEC Center in Trento, Italy

Actual address:

INO-CNR BEC Center and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Trento, via Sommarive 14, 38123 Povo (Trento), ITALY.
Tel: +39 0461 883925. Fax: +39 0461 882014

Studies

July 1993: Has obtained high school degree (Maturità Classica) with full grades (60/60).
From october 1993 to november 1997 has been an undergraduate student (studente del corso ordinario) at Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) in Pisa, Italy and has followed courses both at Pisa University and at Scuola Normale Superiore.
October 1, 1997 has obtained the Laurea degree in Physics at Pisa University with full marks and honours (110/110 e lode)
Thesis: "Linear and nonlinear optics in one dimensional photonic crystals ", under the supervision of dr. G.C. La Rocca
November 17, 1998 has obtained the Licenza degree at Scuola Normale Superiore with full marks and honours (70/70 e lode)
Seminar title: "Nonlinear optics in semiconductor microcavities", under the supervision of dr. G.C. La Rocca
From january 1998 to november 2000 has been a Ph.D. student at Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) in Pisa, Italy. Supervisor: prof. G. C. La Rocca.
From january to june 1999 has collaborated with proff. Jean Dalibard and Yvan Castin at the Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel in Paris. The stay in Paris has been partially funded by the European Union (TMR network ERB FMRX-CT96-0002)
November 11, 2000 has defended the Ph.D.Thesis: "Linear and nonlinear optics of Bose fields: light waves in dielectric structures, matter waves in optical lattices" with full marks and honours (70/70 e lode). Ph.D. supervisor: prof G.C. La Rocca, referees: prof. L. P. Pitaevskii and prof. T. W. Hansch. Members of the jury: prof. M. P. Tosi (president), dr. Y. Castin, prof. V. Agranovich, prof. F. Strocchi, dr. A. Tredicucci.
During january and february 2001 has worked at the Dipartimento di Fisica "E. Caianiello'' of the University of Salerno, Italy.
From march 2001 to may 2003 has been a "Marie Curie" post-doctoral fellow at the Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris in the "cold atoms" group directed by prof. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and has collaborated with proff. Yvan Castin and Jean Dalibard. Title of the project: "Stochastic field methods for the interacting Bose gas"
May 2003: has obtained a Tenure Track Junior Researcher position at the CNR-INFM BEC Center in Trento.
During the academic year 2003-04 has been on leave at the College de France in Paris as a Maître de Conferences associé to the Atomic and Molecular Physics chair of prof. C. Cohen-Tannoudji.
From september 2008 to march 2009 has been a visiting professor at ETH in Zurich in the Quantum Photonics group led by prof. A. Imamoglu
December 2008: Junior Researcher position tenured.
Since April 2009: Senior researcher at CNR-INFM BEC Center in Trento.

Teaching and other activities

During the year 2000 has partecipated to the Concorso a cattedre held by the Italian Ministry of Education and has obtained a permanent position as high school mathematics and physics professor. Position declined.
During the academic years 2001-02, 2002-03 and 2003-04 has led the Travaux Diriges of the Mecanique Quantique Avancee (Advanced Quantum Mechanics) course at the DEA de Physique Quantique (graduate school of Quantum Physics) at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris.
During the academic year 2002-03 has worked as a tutor at the l'UTES (department for the application of multimedial technologies in the teaching of sciences) of Paris 6 "Pierre et Marie Curie" University.
From september 2003 to july 2004 has taught basic french reading and writing to newly arrived immigrants at the Foyer Pinel, Saint-Denis, Paris.
During the academic year 2004-05 has been charged of the "Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics" course for 3rd year undergraduate students in applied physics (laurea di primo livello in Fisica Applicata ) at the University of Trento.
From september to december 2008 has given a one-semester course on New trends in Bose-Einstein condensation to graduate students at ETH in Zurich (Switzerland)
From the academic year 2009-10 is in charge of the "Quantum Optics" course for 1st year Master students (laurea Magistrale) in Physics at the University of Trento

Prizes and awards

June 1992: Has partecipated to the "Giochi della Chimica'' (italian national Chemistry Olimpiad) and has classified first in the B category (general high schools, licei).
July 1993: Has partecipated as member of the italian team to the International Physical Olimpiad in Williamsburg, U.S., and has won a bronze medal.
July 1993: Has partecipated as member of the italian team to the International Matematical Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey, and has won a bronze medal.
November 2000: has obtained the "Le Scienze" medal for physics offered by the "Le Scienze" magazine (italian edition of Scientific American) to a young researcher.
September 2001: has been awarded the first prize for the best talk on condensed matter physics at the 87th conference of the Italian Physical Society.
April 2002: has obtained the Berz Award offered by the Institute Of Physics to a young theoretical physicist.
September 2002: has obtained the prize of the Italian Physical Society (SIF) for a young physicist having had his degree after 1995 (premio per giovani laureati).
2010: Honorable mention in the GRF 2010 Awards for Essays on Gravitation with the essay Testing Hawking particle creation by black holes through correlation measurements by R. Balbinot, I. Carusotto, A. Fabbri, A. Recati, published as Int. J. of Mod. Phys. D 19, 2371 (2010). Preprint available at arXiv:1005.4000