Department of
Physics and Astronomy

An important recognition of the research carried out by the Department!  The paradox of steady-state light diffusion, has been selected for a Research Highlight on the Physics World

Fermi 125: Enrico Fermi’s Legacy 125 Years After His Birth. 

Resolving a 30-Year Light Diffusion Controversy. The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Florence coordinated the activities of a collaboration with the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM) and the Institute for Laser Technology in Medicine and Medicine at the University of Ulm (ILM).

Subtracting to Add: How Quasiperiodicity Shapes the Quantum Phases of Matter. Vinicius Zampronio and  Fabio Cinti investigate the behavior of dipolar bosons in a quasiperiodic optical lattice.

Davide Bacco, Associate Professor at our Deaprtment, has been recognised the Canada-Italy Innovation Award 2023. 

Ása Skúladóttir, researcher at theDepartment, was awarded a 1.5 million euro StartingGrant by the European Research Council. Her research project, focused on dwarf galaxies, studies the origin of the Milky Way and its chemical elements. 

Topology and synchronization together? A paper published in Physical Review Letters with contributions from our Phd student Lorenzo Giambagli explains.