Marco Olivieri, postdoc

Marco has obtained one of the highly competitive grants, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, which will the next two years fund his research project "Universal Description of the Bose Gases" here in Copenhagen. Marco will be working with Professor Søren Fournais and his research group at the QMATH Centre.

Marco obtained his PhD on January 2021 at “Sapienza”, University of Rome, Italy. He obtained both his Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Mathematics with maximum grades at “Sapienza” University of Rome, in July 2016 and July 2014, respectively.

Since then he has been working in Mathematical Physics and participated in several workshops and conferences. He also spent some time visiting the math-phys group at the Universität Tüubingen and twice Zied Ammari in Rennes.

During his PhD under the supervision of M. Correggi and M. Falconi, he investigated both dynamical and stationary features of microscopic systems of quantum particles interacting with radiation fields and studied the derivation of effective models in the quasi-classical limit, i.e. a classical limit only on the field subsystem. In order to do that, he reached a good knowledge of the mathematics of particle-field models, e.g., the Nelson, Pauli-Fierz and Polaron models, as well as the techniques of semiclassical analysis in infinite dimensional spaces.

During his first postdoc period in Karlsruhe, Germany (January 2020 – October 2021), he worked on the proof of the Casimir-Polder effect in the quantum fields interacting with matter. The results were collected in a paper giving the first rigorous proof of the effect for an approximate Pauli-Fierz model.

During his next postdoc period in Aarhus, Denmark (from November 2021), Marco worked with a research group associated with the DFF Project “Mathematics of the Bose gas” granted to Professor Søren Fournais. The collaboration resulted in a paper, where they obtained a second-order expansion for the energy of the dilute Bose gases in TD regime in 2D.

Søren Fournais moved to Copenhagen, and so has now Marco. You can find him with the quantum researchers in Vibenshuset.