Svetlana Alexandrovna Kotochigova is a Soviet and American physicist whose research involves the theory and simulation of ultracold atoms and ultracold molecules. 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.
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),4 and France, Atomic Energy Commission of France,5 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 1997.6
In 2004, she added affiliations as a research professor at Temple University and as a research associate at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.7
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.8
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".9
External links
- Svetlana Kotochigova publications indexed by Google Scholar
References
Svetlana Kotochigova, Temple University Department of Physics, retrieved 2023-01-18 https://phys.cst.temple.edu/svetlana-kotochigova.html ↩
Svetlana Kotochigova, Temple University Department of Physics, retrieved 2023-01-18 https://phys.cst.temple.edu/svetlana-kotochigova.html ↩
"Svetlana Alexandrovna Kotochigova (Assoc)", People, NIST, 8 December 2022, retrieved 2023-01-18 https://www.nist.gov/people/svetlana-alexandrovna-kotochigova ↩
"Svetlana Alexandrovna Kotochigova". NIST. 19 September 2019. https://www.nist.gov/people/svetlana-alexandrovna-kotochigova ↩
"Svetlana Alexandrovna Kotochigova". NIST. 19 September 2019. https://www.nist.gov/people/svetlana-alexandrovna-kotochigova ↩
"Svetlana Alexandrovna Kotochigova (Assoc)", People, NIST, 8 December 2022, retrieved 2023-01-18 https://www.nist.gov/people/svetlana-alexandrovna-kotochigova ↩
"Svetlana Alexandrovna Kotochigova (Assoc)", People, NIST, 8 December 2022, retrieved 2023-01-18 https://www.nist.gov/people/svetlana-alexandrovna-kotochigova ↩
"Svetlana Alexandrovna Kotochigova". NIST. 19 September 2019. https://www.nist.gov/people/svetlana-alexandrovna-kotochigova ↩
"Fellows nominated in 2011 by the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2023-01-18 https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2011&unit_id=DAMOP&institution= ↩