Dr. Sofia Botsi

Sofia Botsi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Optical and Quantum Systems Engineering group performing experimental and theoretical work in support of the Cold Atom Lab instrument in orbit.


Education: 
  • Ph.D. in Physics, National University of Singapore (2022)
  • M.Sc. in Physics, Heidelberg University (2017)

Research Interests: 
  • Ultracold quantum gases
  • Quantum simulations and quantum computations
  • Precision measurements 


Selected Awards: 
  • CQT PhD Scholarship, National University of Singapore (2017)
  • Exchange Scholarship, University of Amsterdam (2014)

Selected Publications: 
  1. S. Botsi et al., Empirical LiK excited state potentials: connecting short range and near dissociation expansions, PCCP24, 3933-3940 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CP04707H
  2. A. Yang, S. Botsi et al., Singlet Pathway to the Ground State of Ultracold Polar Molecules, Phys. Rev. Lett.124,133203 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.133203
Address: 
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