Sofia Botsi

Dr. Sofia Botsi is a postdoctoral fellow performing experimental and theoretical work in support of the Cold Atom Lab instrument in orbit. She’s leading the ground-based demonstration of optically trapping ultracold quantum gases and analyzes data from space-based atom interferometry experiments. Her research interests include atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, weakly-bound Feshbach molecules, and quantum simulations and quantum computations of ultracold quantum systems. She received her Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore investigating ultracold dipolar LiK molecules and her M.Sc. from Heidelberg University, where she studied ionization processes in strong electromagnetic fields at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear physics.