Tom Bienaimé

Research Interests

• Hybrid systems of atoms and light
• Nonlinear optics and quantum fluids of light
• Atomic quantum gases
• Cooperative scattering of light by cold atoms

Short CV

Currently	CNRS Researcher, section 4
2023	Habilitation (HDR)
2017 — 2021	Lecturer at the Physics Department of École Normale Supérieure Research in the group of A. Bramati, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel
2015 — 2017	Postdoc, group of G. Ferrari, INO-BEC center, Trento, Italy
2013 — 2015	Postdoc, group of J. Dalibard, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel
2012	Postdoc, group of P. Lodahl, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 — 2011	PhD under the supervision of Robin Kaiser, Institut Non Linéaire de Nice
2007	Agrégation de physique (national teaching examination, rank 2nd)
2004 — 2008	Student at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Current research projects

• ANR JCJC
  Coordinator of the project “Strongly interacting quantum fluids of light in propagating geometries”
• Institut Thématique Interdisciplinaire QMat
  Coordinator of the project “Scalable cavity quantum electrodynamics without cavities”
• MSCA Doctoral Networks
  Participant to the project “Quantum and Classical Ultrasoft Matter”
• MSCA Doctoral Networks
  Participant to the project “Machine Learning for Quantum”

Teaching

• Many body physics and quantum simulations (M2), with Johannes Schachenmayer and Shannon Whitlock.
• Photonics for quantum science and technology (M1), with Shannon Whitlock.