Svetlana Kotochigova

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Svetlana Alexandrovna Kotochigova is a Soviet and American physicist whose research involves the theory and simulation of ultracold atoms and ultracold molecules. [1] She is a research professor of physics at Temple University and a researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. [1] [2]

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Education and career

Kotochigova earned a doctorate at Saint Petersburg State University in 1981, and worked as a researcher at the Vavilov State Optical Institute from 1981 to 1991. After short-term positions in Greece, Foundation for research and Technology (IESL) [3] , and France, Atomic Energy Commission of France [4] , she came to the US as a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1994, and continued at NIST as a research associate beginning in 1997. [2]

In 2004, she added affiliations as a research professor at Temple University and as a research associate at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. [2]

Research interests include relativistic quantum theory and its applications, atomic and molecular electronic structure and spectroscopy, QED effects in hydrogen and hydrogen-like ions, ultracold atom-atom interactions and optical lattices, and online atomic and molecular databases. [5]

Recognition

Kotochigova was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2011, after a nomination from the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, "for insightful theoretical description of the formation and control of ultracold molecules in optical trapping potentials". [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 Svetlana Kotochigova, Temple University Department of Physics, retrieved 2023-01-18
  2. 1 2 3 "Svetlana Alexandrovna Kotochigova (Assoc)", People, NIST, 8 December 2022, retrieved 2023-01-18
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