Sina Loriani is a researcher in Research Department 1 on Earth System Analysis at PIK and member of the FutureLab on Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene. His work focuses on tipping elements, and contributes to the Earth and human systems modelling intercomparison project (WG1) of the Earth Commission.
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14412 Potsdam
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Current position:
- Postdoc at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Research Department 1: Earth System Analysis
- Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene (ERA) lab
- Contributor to the Earth Commission WG1 - Quantifying the safe and just corridor for humanity
Researcher:
2020-2021: Postdoc position at the DLR CARIOQA project, Institute of Quantum Optics. Establishment of a numerical simulator for satellite-based quantum sensing.
2018-2019: Research stays at the theory and metrology group (Prof. Wolf) at SYRTE (Observatoire de Paris) in a collaboration on systematic errors in space-borne quantum experiments.
2017-2020: PhD in physics, Quantum sensing group (Prof. Rasel) at the Institute of Quantum Optics (LUH). Specialization on quantum sensors (atom interferometry, clocks) for inertial navigation, geodesy and tests of fundamental physics. Thesis: Atom Interferometry for Tests of General Relativity.
Education:
2014-2016: M.Sc. in physics (LUH). Thesis: Ultracold atomic sources for space-borne atom interferometry.
2011-2014: B.Sc. in physics Leibniz University Hannover (LUH).
- Systematic investigation of tipping points
- Time series analysis of nonlinear systems
- Supporting the work of the Earth Commission WG1
- Future Lab: Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene
Earth system sciences
- N Wunderling et al., Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model, Nature Climate Change (2022), doi/10.1038/s41558-022-01545-9
- D I Armstrong McKay et al., Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points, Science 377, 6611 (2022), doi/10.1126/science.abn7950
Quantum sensing
- P Wolf and the STE-QUEST consortium, STE-QUEST: Space Time Explorer and QUantum Equivalence principle Space Test, arxiv.org/abs/2211.15412 (M-class mission proposal in response to the 2021 call in ESA’s science programme)
- I Alonso et al., Cold atoms in space: community workshop summary and proposed road-map, EPJ Quantum Technology 9, 30 (2022)
- F Anders et al., Momentum Entanglement for Atom Interferometry, Physical Review Letters 127, 140402 (2021)
- B Battelier et al., Exploring the foundations of the physical universe with space tests of the equivalence principle, Experimental Astronomy (2021)
- S Loriani et al., Resolution of the Co-Location Problem in Satellite Quantum Tests of the Equivalence Principle. Physical Review D 102, 124043 (2020)
- R. Corgier et al., Interacting quantum mixtures for precision atom interferometry. New Journal of Physics 22, 123008 (2020)
- B Canuel et al., ELGAR - a European Laboratory for Gravitation and Atom-interferometric Research. Classical and Quantum Gravity 37, 225017 (2020)
- T Hensel et al., Precision inertial sensing with quantum gases. European Physics Journal D 75:108 (2020)
- S Loriani et al., Interference of clocks: A quantum twin paradox. Science Advances 5:eaax8966 (2019)
- S Loriani et al., Atomic source selection in space-borne gravitational wave detection. New Journal of Physics 21, 063030 (2019)
