The Institute welcomes new members

One Postdoctoral researcher, Olivier Chalus; one PhD student, Sukanya Randhawa; three undergraduate students, Cristina Grau , Luis Martínez and Antoine Boyer; and one electronic engineer, Francisco Remiro, have joined ICFO.

Olivier Chalus joins Prof. Jens Biegert group. He will work on aspects of intense few-cycle pulse generation as well as applications in attophysics and extreme nonlinear optics.

Sukanya Randhawa joins Prof. Romain Quidant’s group. She will work on the design, the fabrication and the characterization of miniaturized 2D plasmon-based elements.

Luis Martínez and Cristina Grau join Prof. Valerio Pruneri’s group. Martínez will work on ultrathin metal films while Grau has a project on wet and dry etching of ferroelectric crystals.

Antoine Boyer joins Prof. Antonio Acin’s group. He will be working on the study of the conditions on quantum correlations that lead to perfect randomness. More precisely, the goal is to derive trade-offs between correlations and local randomness. For instance, if two distant parties observe the maximal quantum violation of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality, then their local symbols are perfectly random, independently of the state and measurements that achieve the violation.

Francisco Remiro joins ICFO in the electronic workshop. He will design, develop, test and debug new electronic devices, and advice the researchers in electronic matters.