People
Principal Investigator
Martino Poggio
Martino
Poggio received his A.B. in
physics from Harvard University in 2000 and
his Ph.D. from the
University of California, Santa Barbara in
2005. In graduate
school he worked for Prof. David Awschalom on
ultrafast optics and
semiconductor spintronics. After receiving
his doctorate, he
started work as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center
for Probing the
Nanoscale, a joint center between Stanford University
and IBM
Corporation funded by the National Science Foundation.
Until
late 2008 he worked In this capacity in Dr. Dan Rugar's lab at
the
IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA on high sensitivity
nuclear magnetic resonance force microscopy. In the summer of
2008, he was elected Argovia Professor at the University of Basel and
he started work there in January of 2009. Prof. Poggio is a
member
of the American Physical Society.
Email: martino.poggio@unibas.ch
Office: +41 (0)61 267 37 61
Lab: +41 (0)61 267 35 81
Post Doctoral Researcher
Fei Xue
Dr. Fei Xue received his Bachelor of Science in 1999
and his Ph.D. in Physics in 2004, both from the University of Science
and Technology of China. His research was mainly devoted to
experimental realizations of quantum information processing using
liquid-state nuclear magnetic resonance. From 2004 to 2006 he was a
post doctoral fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences. There he pursued his interests in
theoretical questions of quantum control. From 2006 to 2007 he was a
visiting researcher at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
(RIKEN). From 2007 to 2009 he was a post doctoral fellow working on
experiments led by Prof. Eyal Buks at the Technion in Israel. Dr. Xue
joined the lab in December 2009.
Email: fei.xue@unibas.ch
Office: +41 (0)61 267 37 33
Lab: +41 (0)61 267 35
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PhD Students
Phani Peddibhotla
Phani Peddibhotla received his Bachelor
of Technology in Mechanical Engineering and Physics from the Indian
Instutute of Technology in Madras in 2005. In early 2009, he earned
his Masters in Micro and Nanosystems at the ETH in Zurich. Phani
joined the lab in April 2009.
Email: phani.peddibhotla@unibas.ch
Office: +41 (0)61 267 37 33
Lab: +41 (0)61 267 35 81
Michele Montinaro
Michele Montinaro received his Bachelor
of Science in Physics in 2005 and his Masters of Science in Physics in
early 2009, both from the University of Pisa. Michele joined the lab
in May 2009.
Email: m.montinaro@unibas.ch
Office: +41 (0)61 267 37 33
Lab: +41 (0)61 267 35
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Dennis Weber
Dennis Weber received his Masters in
Physics in late 2007 from the University of Karlsruhe. Dennis also
spent one year at the University of Oregon in Eugene obtaining a
Master of Science in 2005. Dennis joined the lab in September 2009.
Email: dennis.weber@unibas.ch
Office: +41 (0)61 267 37 33
Lab: +41 (0)61 267 35
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Masters Students
Benedikt Herzog
Benedikt Herzog is a Masters student in Physics here
at the University of Basel. He started pursuing a Masters project in
our lab in March 2010.
Email: benedikt.herzog@stud.unibas.ch
Office: +41 (0)61 267 37 33
Lab: +41 (0)61 267 35
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