We are thrilled to announce that @pietrosmaniotto and @cameron_bunney have been awarded two Institute of Physics Prizes!
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To find out more about their amazing projects, swipe left or visit out website!
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Meet the team ✨
Vitor is a postdoc from Brazil. He joined the team in 2019 for his PhD, and since then he has worked on developing different gravity and cosmology simulators using fluids as analogue spacetimes. His main focus is on building detection methods for sensing surface waves👨💻
James is a postdoc trained in physics and engineering. His background is in photonic structures and optical devices, and he has joined the group to work with the experimentalists on the detection and characterisation of superfluid helium thin films🔬
Seán is a PhD student. His research interests are in early universe cosmology, and he has been working to simulate cosmological phenomena in fluid systems. These experiments allow us learn about early universe dynamics in more detail and verify the theory behind phenomena like inflation🌌
Ilaria is a PhD student from Italy. She is currently working on the new cryostat experiment to image surface excitations on thin film superfluid helium as analogue scalar fields. This experiment will be used to search for the Unruh effect, but also to simulate cosmological phenomena! 🔭
Meet the team ✨
Pietro is a PhD student from Italy. He is part of the team that built the superfluid black hole simulator, and his focus is on analysing the data from the experiment to detect black hole quasinormal modes in analogue settings 👨💻
Silke is a Professor, she set up our laboratories and leads the gravity laboratory team, while also co-leading the ARTlab. Her research interests are in the interplay between general relativity and quantum fields, in areas including black hole physics and the early universe. She has developed several experiments to explore these effects in our laboratories, using both normal fluids and superfluids as analogue space times 🌌
Marion is a postdoc, they are the newest member of our group! They have joined our team of experimentalists to work on the optical setup required to detect the Unruh effect in our dry cryostat 🥼
Adam is a PhD student in theoretical physics. His focus is on the Unruh effect, and how a theoretical particle detector can be used to probe the universe, and how this measurement affects the fields being probed 📖
Meet the team ✨
Maciej is a PhD student, he’s lived in Nottingham for the last 6 years! His research investigates the behaviour of quantum information, including entanglement and area laws, in analogue gravity simulators🔬
Leo is a PhD student from Stockport, UK. His focus is on understanding the local interactions of particle detectors with quantum fields to eventually observe the Unruh effect in an analogue setting 📚
Chris is a postdoc from South Wales. He set up our newest experiment, a dry cryostat that allows us to study the dynamics of thin film superfluid helium at 0.3 degrees above absolute zero. We will use this experiment to search for the analogue of the Unruh effect, as well as simulate gravitational phenomena!👨🔬
Ulrike is a senior research fellow in astrophysics, as well as an artist and curator. She co-leads the ARTlab, which enables the collaboration between artists and researchers in the gravity laboratory 🎨
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Silvia is a PhD student from Rome, Italy. She is currently working on simulating early universe dynamics, like the preheating phase of inflation, using a two fluid system as an analogue 🔬
Cameron is from Mansfield, UK. He is an EPSRC doctoral prize fellow and one of our theorists! His research focusses on the Unruh effect and how we can detect it in an experimental setting 📝
Leonardo is a PhD student from Lecce, Italy. He is currently investigating black-hole quasinormal modes in an analogue gravity simulator using superfluid helium! He is also our honorary photographer 📸
Patrik is a postdoc from Trenčín, Slovakia. He led the design and set up of our glass cryostat, used to explore black hole dynamics in an analogue setting by examining the surface wave behaviour around a draining superfluid vortex! He is also the recipient of the UK research and innovation prize, through which he developed the PhotonBricks LEGO interferometry kits 👨🔬
What is making these pendulums move out of phase?
Hosted by @casper_mebius
Special thanks to @gravity_laboratory for letting us shoot this with them!
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Join us at University of Nottingham for an engaging discussion between Derek Muller from @veritasium and Dr Tom Crawford aka @tomrocksmaths , as part of our SciOUT workshop! 🤩
The event will take place at 4pm on the 11th of June and is open to all staff and students - no need to register!
For postgraduate students who would like to attend the full SciOUT workshop, register with the link in bio! 🔗
Are you a postgrad interested in a career in science communication and outreach? 👀
Join us at the University of Nottingham on the 11th of June for the SciOUT workshop, a full-day event all about communicating science beyond the lab 🧪
Featuring a public talk by Derek Muller from @veritasium and Dr Tom Crawford (@tomrocksmaths ), the event will allow you to learn practical skills, meet others working in science outreach, and get inspired to communicate your research in new ways!
Sign up via the link in bio - spaces are limited! ⏱️
Science tries to explain the inexplicable. A microscopic cell component, a supernova, electrons, stars… all components of what we call universe and yet not things that we directly see with the human eye. Yes, technological advances are allowing us more and more to get these “direct” measurements, but it is impossible to build instruments without any idea of what we are trying to observe. That’s where scientists come together to develop theories. As a scientist you have to quite literally break the barrier of the “known” world. This is why science - despite what many might think - is one of the most creative disciplines you can think of. In fact, I don’t actually believe there is such a neat distinction between science, philosophy and art. After all, they used to be one discipline back in the day. As a scientist, I close my eyes and use my imagination and creativity to visualise anything from biological processes to physical phenomena. Last week I was invited by @gravity_laboratory Professor Silke Weinfurner to have a look at their art exhibition on quantum physics Cosmic Titans (held at @lakesidearts ). It was like witnessing the world of quantum coming to life. The exhibition is a product of two worlds colliding: that of physicists and artists. It just really comes to show how much the world can gain from the interlink of (apparently) different subjects. My favourite piece was made by @conradshawcross on human understanding of the universe. The piece shows a beautiful collection of lights at the centre, separated by two walls from apparently ordinary studies. If one looks up from the perspective of someone sitting in the chair, only shadows of the complex light system are visible. That is the perfect metaphor for what we work with as scientists. Figments of reality from which we have to translate the origin of the universe and other philosophical questions.
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Patrik Švančara (@patosvanci ) has developed unique LEGO interferometry kits to make quantum concepts more accessible and engaging in a project titled Photon Bricks. Did you catch Patrik talking about the project on NottsToday 👀? Follow the link in Bio
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The project is already earning international recognition with an image taken by @leosolidoro showcased in Nature as one of this month’s sharpest science shot! Check it out, it’s the first in the lineup.
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Photon Bricks is showcased at the Cosmic Titans exhibition, running until April 27th at Djanogly Art Gallery - this is your chance to explore the mysteries of quantum physics in a fascinating blend of art, creativity and science
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Samin tells us about her fascinating research on quantum decoherence
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Samin Tajik, a researcher from UBC, is visiting our group to collaborate on exploring ways to detect the elusive Unruh effect in the lab
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