🇵🇱 Polska potrzebuje nauki.
🔬 Nauka potrzebuje ambicji.
🚀 Ambicja potrzebuje finansowania.
Bez tego nie będzie ani rozwoju, ani bezpieczeństwa.
👇 Dlaczego to dziś kluczowe — w rozmowie ze mną dla @polskaakademianauk.bsky.social
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📊 The meeting focused on identifying key barriers and presenting recommendations to help Poland increase its participation in central EU programs and build sustainable competitiveness.
🚀 There is no prosperous and safe future without strong research funded at the European level. At the same time, success in Europe requires a supportive and ambitious environment at the national level.
🔬 Science is our future!
🇪🇺 I participated in a meeting in Brussels with representatives of the Polish scientific community and over a dozen Polish Members of the European Parliament to discuss funding for research and innovation in the next EU budget.
🏆 Our collaborator and the first author, Alessio Ciamei, has already won an ERC Starting Grant to build the proposed experiment in Florence.
🚀 Stay tuned!
⚡ Searching for the electric dipole moment of the electron is a first step toward solving a major mystery in modern physics: why the Universe contains far more matter than antimatter.
🔬 We propose ultracold YbCr and similar high-spin polar molecules, featuring large internal electric fields and an ideal rotational structure controllable with modest laboratory fields, as a sensitive platform for probing physics beyond the Standard Model.
📄 Our new research article on “Ultracold High-Spin Σ-State Polar Molecules for New Physics Searches” has been published in Physical Review X:
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To this end, we showed that the excited metastable X1𝛴+b3𝛱 electronic manifold supports field-linked tetramers in a broader range of electric fields with collisional shielding extended to zero field. The discovered phenomenon is more general, thus stay tuned!
We proposed proof-of-principle experiments to implement stimulated Raman adiabatic passage and photoassociation using field-linked tetramers, paving the way for the formation of deeply bound ultracold polyatomic molecules.
Our new research article on "Optical excitation and stabilization of ultracold field-linked tetratomic molecules" was published in @physrevlett.bsky.social with our excellent former postdoc Dr. Bijit Mukherjee
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This week, I participate in the Haikou Workshop and Winter School: Fundamentals and Frontiers of Ultracold Atoms and Molecules in Hainan in China organized by Prof. Xin-Yu Luo (罗鑫宇)
The interactions between laser-coolable molecules in excited electronic states were investigated for the first time, with implications for collisional losses among spin-polarized molecules.
Our new research article on "CaF+CaF interactions in the ground and excited electronic states: implications for collisional losses" was just published in @physreva.bsky.social A by our excellent postdocs Dibyendu Sardarand & Marcin Gronowski with John Bohn
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🍂 Mid-autumn group dinner to celebrate recent scientific success 🚀, welcome new group members, and wish farewell to those leaving for professor or PhD positions 🎓✨
🎓Students are our greatest asset and our future!🌟
Outstanding Kacper Cybiński, Dawid Dąbrowski, Weronika Sobień, and Yahor Mankevich completed their excellent MSc and BSc theses under my supervision at the University of Warsaw this year.
This week we host the Workshop on Ultracold Molecules at the University of Warsaw organized by Simon Cornish and me with the Candela Foundation!
Together with @michaltomza.bsky.social we are looking forward to our close collaboration with the National Contact Point as part of our mission as Ambassadors for the
@erc.europa.eu We plan to engage in joint initiatives aimed at supporting ERC applicants and grantees in Poland #Amb4ERC
Our new research article on "Ground and first excited states of the NaSr molecule: Experimental and theoretical study" published in J. Phys. Chem. A @pubs.acs.org in experimental-theoretical collaboration led by Dr. Jacek Szczepkowski at the Institute of Physics PAN
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🎓 Last month, our outstanding undergrads Weronika Sobień, Jan Okoński, and Dawid Dąbrowski presnted their results at the International Physics Student Conference SMOK in Kraków 🐉 and the High-Performance Computing Users Conference in Zakopane 🏔️.
Już jutro o 18 zapraszam na premierę kolejnego odcinka "A o tym PAN słyszał?", w którym będę rozmawiał z @michaltomza.bsky.social z Wydziału Fizyki UW ale też AMU PAN o badaniach ultrazimnych cząsteczek i tym do czego mogą nas prowadzić. Zapraszam do oglądania! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IRv...
I am honored to be appointed the Ambassador for the ERC
@erc.europa.eu, along with @justynaolko.bsky.social, the second Polish Ambassador, and 30 other ERC grantees, to promote the importance of frontier scientific research as the engine of a prosperous, knowledge-driven Europe!
#Amb4ERC
The coupling between electronic spin and mechanical rotation in ultracold KRb-Rb collisions was probed experimentally and rationalized theoretically. We found and explained exceptionally large spin-roration coupling!
We contributed electronic structure calculations to the experimental-theoretical collaboration led by Prof. Kang-Kuen Ni and her group at Harvard University with quantum scattering calculations by Prof. Timur Tscherbul from the University of Nevada and Prof. John Bohn from JILA.
Our new research article on "Hyperfine-to-rotational energy transfer in ultracold atom-molecule collisions of Rb and KRb" was just published in NatureChemistry with our excellent postdocs Dr Marcin Gronowski and Dr Hela Ldjimi
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👩🔬🍕🔬 The group dinner to celebrate our recent research successes and the end of winter! 🏆
O pomysłach, które naukowcy przedstawili premierowi @donald-tusk.bsky.social rozmawiam z prof. @michaltomza.bsky.social
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🚀 Our outstanding PhD student Maks Walewski and BSc student Dawid Dąbrowski participate in the Winter School on Quantum Revolution in AMO Sciences organized by @harvard.edu at Biosphere 2 🌿 in Arizona🏜️
🎉 Big news! Our brilliant postdoc, Dr. Bijit Mukherjee, has been awarded a prestigious MSCActions postdoctoral fellowship! 🌟 This means Bijit will stay with our group for 2 more years. 🙌
Congratulations, Bijit! 🥳👏
In the theoretical-experimental collaboration between @UniWarszawski and @WeizmannScience, we show that magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances in Sr⁺ + Rb collisions survive far above the ultracold regime—defying the idea that quantum phenomena vanish at higher temperatures.