My name is Giorgia Ciuffarella and I am a Physics PhD candidate in the ATTO group at LIDYL (CEA Paris-Saclay) within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network QU-ATTO. In my PhD, I use attosecond pulses to investigate photoemission dynamics and apply quantum tomography methods to reconstruct the photoelectron’s reduced density matrix. My goal is to study the time-domain evolution of decoherence and electron-ion entanglement in the photoionization of small systems, such as atoms and molecules.
I hold a BSc in Engineering Physics from Politecnico di Torino and an international Master in Nanotechnologies for ICT (Politecnico di Torino – Grenoble INP-Phelma – EPFL). During my Master’s thesis at MIT (Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication group), I worked on infrared-enhanced electron emission from nanoantennas, gaining experience with photoemission processes and ultrafast optical detection.