TU Wien

Technische Universität Wien (TUW) is the largest technology-oriented university in Austria. The faculty of physics is subdivided into four institutes, the Institute for Atomic and Subatomic Physics (Atominstitut ATI) being the largest one, founded in 1958. It plays a special role in the Austrian science landscape, hosting the country’s only nuclear reactor and fulfilling important tasks in teaching and training of safeguard inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, located in Vienna) and Euratom. The ATI hosts a variety of research groups centered around nuclear physics, atomic physics and quantum optics, with a strong emphasis on quantum effects, laser spectroscopy, and metrology.

TU Wien will provide office space and computational resources for extensive numerical calculation (particularly, access to Vienna Scientific Cluster), as well as online access to relevant scientific journals.

We have an open PhD position.

Team members
Dr. ​ Georgy  A. Kazakov received  his  PhD  in  physics  in  St-Petersburg  State Polytechnic University (now Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University), Russia, in 2007. In  2010 he was awarded a FWF Lise Meitner grant, project “Atomic clocks with a nuclear transition: theoretical aspects”, and relocated to Vienna, Austria in March 2011, where he performs theoretical studies and proposals, connected to Thorsten Schumm’s  experimental activity,  among others dedicated to the direct search of the ultraviolet  isomer  transition in ​ 229Th nucleus, and to the development of nuclear clocks. His background provides him with the crucial experience about real-life problems and needs of  experimentalists.  Georgy A. Kazakov was a partner-PI for previous EU FET Flag project "iqClock" and for EU H2020-MSCA-ITN project "MoSaiQC". He proposed several methods of replenishment of ensembles of the gain atoms in active optical clocks, and studied effects of inhomogenity of the atomic ensembles on some properties of superradiant laser radiation.

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Univ. Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schumm is a leader of the Quantum Metrology group in ATI since 2011; he was director of ATI 2018-2021 and dean of the Faculty of Physics 2021-2023. He studied in Berlin, Innsbruck, and Heidelberg and received his PhD in atom optics in 2006 from Universite Paris Sud, France, and University of Heidelberg, Germany (European collaborative thesis). After a short Postdoc at Mclennan Physical Labs, Toronto, Canada, he moved to TU Wien in 2006 to work on ultracold atomic gases and matter wave interferometry. In 2008 he initiated a new research direction on laser excitation of a nuclear transition in Thorium-229. On this topic, he coordinated several large-scale projects, susch as a national START project in 2009, an ERC Starting Grant in 2010, the EU-FET Open “nuClock” in 2015 and the ERC Synergy Grant “ThoriumNuclearClock” in 2020. In the framework of this project he will support the team with input on experimental feasibility and technical constraints as well as with the scientific management.

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