Steven Knoop
LaserLaB Amsterdam
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
E-mail: s.knoop@vu.nl
Room nr.: T-270a (office) / G-179 (lab)
Tel.: +31(0)20 598 7855 (office) / 7945 (lab)
Fax: +31(0)20 598 7992
Research interests
Exploring few- and many-body physics in ultracold quantum gaseskeywords: laser cooling and trapping, ultracold atoms and molecules,
Bose-Einstein condensation, Feshbach spectroscopy, Efimov physics
Projects
• ultracold mixture of rubidium and metastable helium • ultracold metastable helium
Recent publications
• Feshbach spectroscopy and scattering properties of ultracold Li+Na mixturesSchuster, Scelle, Trautmann, Knoop, Oberthaler, Haverhals, Goosen, Kokkelmans, Tiemann, PRA 85, 042721 (2012)
• Magnetic-field-dependent trap loss of ultracold metastable helium
Borbely, van Rooij, Knoop, Vassen, PRA 85, 022706 (2012)
• Nonexponential one-body loss in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Knoop, Borbely, van Rooij, Vassen, PRA 85, 025602 (2012)
• Scattering lengths of calcium and barium isotopes
Dammalapati, Willmann, Knoop, PRA 84, 054703 (2011)
Complete list of publications
Short CV
• 6/2011-present: NWO-VIDI laureate (5 year grant) within the group of Wim UbachsVrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Topic: ultracold mixture of metastable helium and rubidium
• 12/2010-5/2011: Post-doc in the group of Wim Ubachs (on project of Wim Vassen)
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Topic: ultracold metastable helium
• 3/2009-11/2010: Post-doc in the group of Markus Oberthaler
Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Heidelberg, Germany
Topics: ultracold mixture of lithium and sodium, Feshbach resonances, polaron physics
• 4/2006-2/2009: Post-doc in the group of Rudi Grimm
Institut für Experimentalphysik, Innsbruck, Austria
Topics: ultracold cesium, Feshbach molecules, Efimov physics
• 12/2001-3/2006: PhD (cum laude) in the group of Ronnie Hoekstra and Reinhard Morgenstern
Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Thesis title: Electron Dynamics in Ion-Atom Interactions
Topics: recoil-ion momentum spectoscopy, magneto-optically trapped sodium, charge exchange
• 9/1997-11/2001: Physics at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• 27-2-1979: Born in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Fellowships/Grants
• 2011 Projectruimte grant from FOM
• 2010 VIDI grant from NWO
• 2006 Marie Curie Fellowship from EU
Awards
• 2010 Preis der Landeshauptstadt Innsbruck, City of Innsbruck (shared with Francesca Ferlaino and Martin Berninger)• 2003 Kamerlingh Onnes prize for best Master thesis, Physics Department, University of Groningen