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Personal statement

Kali Wilson is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and 海角论坛 Chancellor鈥檚 Fellow in the聽聽of the Department of physics. Her current research uses superfluids of light and superfluids formed of ultracold atoms to address fundamental physics questions such as the mechanisms underlying turbulence, and cooperative behaviour in many-body quantum systems. Her research relies on bridging experimental techniques from the atomic physics, nonlinear optics and imaging communities.

Kali joined the Physics Department of the University of 海角论坛聽in 2021 on a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and is currently developing an ultra-cold atom experiment to study superfluid dynamics in quantum mixtures.

Prior to her work at 海角论坛, Kali studied physics at聽. She did her PhD in Optical Sciences in聽聽group at the University of Arizona聽, studying vortex dynamics and quantum turbulence in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). In 2015, Kali moved to Edinburgh to join聽聽group at Heriot鈥揥att University (the group has since moved to Glasgow University) to investigate photon fluids, i.e., superfluids of light, with applications to superfluidity, analogue gravity, and photon droplets. In 2018, she joined Simon Cornish鈥檚 group at聽, working on the CsYb ultracold atom experiment.聽 During her time in Durham, they demonstrated the first Cs-Yb dual Bose-Einstein condensates, which facilitate studies of beyond mean-field physics in ultracold atoms.