Tarruell, Leticia

Short biography

Leticia Tarruell is an ICREA Research Professor at ICFO. She studied physics in Madrid and Paris, and obtained her Ph.D. thesis in Quantum Physics in 2008, with a thesis on superfluid Fermi gases carried out at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. As a postdoctoral researcher at the ETH Zurich, she investigated artificial graphene and quantum magnetism with ultracold fermionic atoms in optical lattices. After a stay as Chargé de Recherche CNRS at Institut d’Optique in Bordeaux, she joined ICFO in 2013 and ICREA in 2022. At ICFO, she leads the Ultracold Quantum Gases experimental group. She was awarded an ERC Consolidator grant in 2021 and has been involved in many international projects, including as a PI in the European projects QUIC, DAALI and DYNAMITE, and as a PI and foreign collaborator in a Research Unit from the German DFG.