{"id":144398,"date":"2025-05-12T13:52:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/ateneo\/organizzazione\/persone\/maria-luisa-chiofalo-6715-en\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:35:46","slug":"maria-luisa-chiofalo-6715-en","status":"publish","type":"unipi_persone","link":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/en\/about-us\/organisation\/people\/maria-luisa-chiofalo-6715-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Luisa Chiofalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professoressa Associata &#8211; Dipartimento di Fisica | Tel.: 050 2214553 &#8211; Email: maria.luisa.chiofalo@unipi.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"unipi-persone-chiave":"6715","unipi-persone-nome":"Maria Luisa","unipi-persone-cognome":"Chiofalo","unipi-persone-email":"maria.luisa.chiofalo@unipi.it","unipi-persone-cv":"Parte della Comunit\u00e0 dei\/lle Mentori di UNIPI. 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K.; Aguilar, J. A.; Ahlers, M.; Alameddine, J. M.; Ali, S.; Amin, N. M.; Andeen, K.; Arg\u00fcelles, C.; Ashida, Y.; Athanasiadou, S.; Axani, S. N.; Babu, R.; Bai, X.; Baines-Holmes, J.; Balagopal V., A.; Barwick, S. W.; Bash, S.; Basu, V.; Bay, R.; Beatty, J. J.; Becker Tjus, J.; Behrens, P.; Beise, J.; Bellenghi, C.; Benkel, S.; Benzvi, S.; Berley, D.; Bernardini, E.; Besson, D. Z.; Blaufuss, E.; Bloom, L.; Blot, S.; Bodo, I.; Bontempo, F.; Book Motzkin, J. Y.; Boscolo Meneguolo, C.; B\u00f6ser, S.; Botner, O.; B\u00f6ttcher, J.; Braun, J.; Brinson, B.; Brisson-Tsavoussis, Z.; Burley, R. T.; Butterfield, D.; Campana, M. A.; Carloni, K.; Carpio, J.; Chattopadhyay, S.; Chau, N.; Chen, Z.; Chirkin, D.; Choi, S.; Clark, B. A.; Coleman, A.; Coleman, P.; Collin, G. H.; Coloma Borja, D. A.; Connolly, A.; Conrad, J. M.; Countryman, S. T.; Cowen, D. F.; De Clercq, C.; Delaunay, J. J.; Delgado, D.; Delmeulle, T.; Deng, S.; Desiati, P.; De Vries, K. D.; De Wasseige, G.; Deyoung, T.; D\u00edaz-V\u00e9lez, J. C.; Dikerby, S.; Ding, T.; Dittmer, M.; Domi, A.; Draper, L.; Dueser, L.; Durnford, D.; Dutta, K.; Duvernois, M. A.; Ehrhardt, T.; Eidenschink, L.; Eimer, A.; Eldridge, C.; Eller, P.; Ellinger, E.; Els\u00e4sser, D.; Engel, R.; Erpenbeck, H.; Esmail, W.; Eulig, S.; Evans, J.; Evenson, P. A.; Fan, K. L.; Fang, K.; Farrag, K.; Fazely, A. R.; Fedynitch, A.; Feigl, N.; Finley, C.; Fischer, L.; Fox, D.; Franckowiak, A.; Fukami, S.; F\u00fcrst, P.; Gallagher, J.; Ganster, E.; Garcia, A.; Garcia, M.; Garg, G.; Genton, E.; Gerhardt, L.; Ghadimi, A.; Gl\u00fcsenkamp, T.; Gonzalez, J. G.; Goswami, S.; Granados, A.; Grant, D.; Gray, S. J.; Griffin, S.; Griswold, S.; Groth, K. M.; Guevel, D.; G\u00fcnther, C.; Gutjahr, P.; Ha, C.; Haack, C.; Hallgren, A.; Halve, L.; Halzen, F.; Hamacher, L.; Ha Minh, M.; Handt, M.; Hanson, K.; Hardin, J.; Harnisch, A. A.; Hatch, P.; Haungs, A.; H\u00e4ussler, J.; Helbing, K.; Hellrung, J.; Henke, B.; Hennig, L.; Henningsen, F.; Heuermann, L.; Hewet - 2026 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1359347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Abac, A. ?g.; Abouelfettouh, I.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adamcewicz, C.; Adhicary, S.; Adhikari, D.; Adhikari, N.; Adhikari, R. ?x.; Adkins, V. ?k.; Afroz, S.; Agapito, A.; Agarwal, D.; Agathos, M.; Aggarwal, N.; Aggarwal, S.; Aguiar, O. ?d.; Ahrend, I. -L.; Aiello, L.; Ain, A.; Ajith, P.; Akutsu, T.; Albanesi, S.; Ali, W.; Al-Kershi, S.; All\u00e9n\u00e9, C.; Allocca, A.; Al-Shammari, S.; Altin, P. ?a.; Alvarez-Lopez, S.; Amar, W.; Amarasinghe, O.; Amato, A.; Amicucci, F.; Amra, C.; Ananyeva, A.; Anderson, S. ?b.; Anderson, W. ?g.; Andia, M.; Ando, M.; Andr\u00e9s-Carcasona, M.; Andric, T.; Anglin, J.; Ansoldi, S.; Antelis, J. ?m.; Antier, S.; Aoumi, M.; Appavuravther, E. ?z.; Appert, S.; Apple, S. ?k.; Arai, K.; Araya, A.; Araya, M. ?c.; Sedda, M. Arca; Areeda, J. ?s.; Aritomi, N.; Armato, F.; Armstrong, S.; Arnaud, N.; Arogeti, M.; Aronson, S. ?m.; Arun, K. ?g.; Ashton, G.; Aso, Y.; Asprea, L.; Assiduo, M.; Melo, S. Assis De Souza; Aston, S. ?m.; Astone, P.; Attadio, F.; Aubin, F.; Aultoneal, K.; Avallone, G.; Avila, E. ?a.; Babak, S.; Badger, C.; Bae, S.; Bagnasco, S.; Baiotti, L.; Bajpai, R.; Baka, T.; Baker, A. ?m.; Baker, K. ?a.; Baker, T.; Baldi, G.; Baldicchi, N.; Ball, M.; Ballardin, G.; Ballmer, S. ?w.; Banagiri, S.; Banerjee, B.; Bankar, D.; Baptiste, T. ?m.; Baral, P.; Baratti, M.; Barayoga, J. ?c.; Barish, B. ?c.; Barker, D.; Barman, N.; Barneo, P.; Barone, F.; Barr, B.; Barsotti, L.; Barsuglia, M.; Barta, D.; Bartoletti, A. ?m.; Barton, M. ?a.; Bartos, I.; Basalaev, A.; Bassiri, R.; Basti, A.; Bawaj, M.; Baxi, P.; Bayley, J. ?c.; Baylor, A. ?c.; Baynard, P. ?a.; Bazzan, M.; Bedakihale, V. ?m.; Beirnaert, F.; Bejger, M.; Belardinelli, D.; Bell, A. ?s.; Bellie, D. ?s.; Bellizzi, L.; Benoit, W.; Bentara, I.; Bentley, J. ?d.; Yaala, M. Ben; Bera, S.; Bergamin, F.; Berger, B. ?k.; Bernuzzi, S.; Beroiz, M.; Bersanetti, D.; Bertheas, T.; Bertolini, A.; Betzwieser, J.; Beveridge, D.; Bevilacqua, G.; Bevins, N.; Bhandare, R.; Bhatt, R.; Bhattacharjee, D.; Bhattacharyya, S. - 2026 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1359207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dissipation engineering of fermionic long-range order beyond the Lindblad limit<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Neri, Silvia; Damanet, Fran\u00e7ois; Daley, Andrew J.; Chiofalo, Maria Luisa; Yago Malo, Jorge - 2026 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1359187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Memory preservation and cooperative shielding in complex quantum networks<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Ausilio, Simone; Borgonovi, Fausto; Luca Celardo, Giuseppe; Yago Malo, Jorge; Chiofalo, Maria Luisa - 2026 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1310111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry: summary of the second workshop<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Abdalla, Adam; Abe, Mahiro; Abend, Sven; Abidi, Mouine; Aidelsburger, Monika; Alibabaei, Ashkan; Allard, Baptiste; Antoniadis, John; Arduini, Gianluigi; Augst, Nadja; Balamatsias, Philippos; Bala\u017e, Antun; Banks, Hannah; Barcklay, Rachel L.; Barone, Michele; Barsanti, Michele; Bason, ; Mark, G.; Bassi, Angelo; Bayle, Jean-Baptiste; Baynham, Charles F. A.; Beaufils, Quentin; Beldjoudi, S\u00e9lyan; Belic, Aleksandar; Bennetts, Shayne; Bernabeu, Jose; Bertoldi, Andrea; Bigard, Clara; Bigelow, N. P.; Bingham, Robert; Blas, Diego; Bobrick, Alexey; Boehringer, Samuel; Bogojevic, Aleksandar; Bongs, Kai; Bortoletto, Daniela; Bouyer, Philippe; Brand, Christian; Buchmueller, Oliver; Buica, Gabriela; Calatroni, Sergio; Calmels, L\u00e9o; Canizares, Priscilla; Canuel, Benjamin; Caramete, Ana; Caramete, Laurentiu-Ioan; Carlesso, Matteo; Carlton, John; Carman, Samuel P.; Carroll, Andrew; Casariego, Mateo; Chairetis, Minoas; Charmandaris, Vassilis; Chauhan, Upasna; Chen, Jiajun; Chiofalo, MARIA LUISA; Ciampini, Donatella; Cimbri, Alessia; Clad\u00e9, Pierre; Coleman, Jonathon; Constantin, Florin Lucian; Contaldi, Carlo R.; Corgier, Robin; Dash, Bineet; Davies, G. J.; de Rham, Claudia; De Roeck, Albert; Derr, Daniel; Dey, Soumyodeep; Di Pumpo, Fabio; Djordjevic, Goran S.; D\u00f6brich, Babette; Dornan, Peter; Doser, Michael; Drougakis, Giannis; Dunningham, Jacob; Duspayev, Alisher; Easo, Sajan; Eby, Joshua; Efremov, Maxim; Elertas, Gedminas; Ellis, John; Entin, Nicholas; Fairhurst, Stephen; Fan\u00ec, Mattia; Fassi, Farida; Fayet, Pierre; Felea, Daniel; Feng, Jie; Flack, Robert; Foot, Chris; Freegarde, Tim; Fuchs, Elina; Gaaloul, Naceur; Gao, Dongfeng; Gardner, Susan; Garraway, Barry M.; Garrido&nbsp;, ; Alzar, Carlos L.; Gauguet, Alexandre; Giese, Enno; Gill, Patrick; Giudice, Gian F.; Glasbrenner, Eric P.; Glick, Jonah; Graham, Peter W.; Granados, Eduardo; Griffin, Paul F.; Gu\u00e9, Jordan; Guellati-Khelifa, Sa\u00efda; Gupta, Subhadeep; Gupta, Vishu; Hackermueller, Lucia; Haehnelt, Martin; Hakulinen, Timo; Hamme - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1276770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women for Quantum -- Manifesto of Values<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Beige, Almut; Predojevic, Ana; Metelmann, Anja; Sanpera, Anna; Macchiavello, Chiara; Koch, Christiane P.; Silberhorn, Christine; Toninelli, Costanza; Bru\u00df, Dagmar; Ercolessi, Elisa; Paladino, Elisabetta; Ferlaino, Francesca; Ferrini, Giulia; Platero, Gloria; Fuentes, Ivette; Nemoto, Kae; Tarruell, Leticia; Bondani, Maria; Chiofalo, MARIA LUISA; Pons, Marisa; D&#039;Angelo, Milena; Murao, Mio; Fabbri, Nicole; Verrucchi, Paola; Senellart-Mardon, Pascale; Citro, Roberta; Zambrini, Roberta; Gonz\u00e1lez-F\u00e9rez, Rosario; Maniscalco, Sabrina; Huelga, Susana; Mehlst\u00e4ubler, Tanja; Parigi, Valentina; Ahufinger, Ver\u00f3nica - 2024 - 5.12 Altro)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1276768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quantum time and the time-dilation induced interaction transfer mechanism<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Cafasso, Dario; Pranzini, Nicola; Malo, Jorge Yago; Giovannetti, Vittorio; Chiofalo, Maria Luisa - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1239007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Atomic Quantum Technologies for Quantum Matter and Fundamental Physics Applications<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(YAGO MALO, Jorge; Lepori, Luca; Gentini, Laura; Chiofalo, MARIA LUISA - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1238989\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dissipative processes at the acoustic horizon<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Chiofalo, MARIA LUISA; Grasso, Dario; Mannarelli, Massimo; Trabucco, Silvia - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1181181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quantum spin models for numerosity perception<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(YAGO MALO, Jorge; Marco Cicchini, Guido; Morrone, MARIA CONCETTA; Chiofalo, MARIA LUISA - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/70574\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Signatures of resonance superfluidity in a quantum Fermi gas<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Chiofalo, MARIA LUISA; Kokkelmans, Sjjmf; Milstein, Jn; Holland, Mj - 2002 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/186432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Time-dependent density-functional theory for superfluids<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Chiofalo, MARIA LUISA; Tosi, Mp - 2001 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/186431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Resonance superfluidity in a quantum degenerate Fermi gas<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Holland, M; Kokkelmans, Sjjmf; Chiofalo, MARIA LUISA; Walser, R. - 2001 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/162957\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ground state of trapped interacting Bose-Einstein condensates by an explicit imaginary-time algorithm<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Chiofalo, MARIA LUISA; Succi, Sauro; TOSI MARIO, P. - 2000 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><\/ul>","unipi-persone-didattica":"<ul class=\"registri-list\"><li>Fisica (cod. 423BB) per Laurea Magistrale Ciclo Unico 5 anni in Chimica e tecnologia farmaceutiche<\/li><li>La fisica di tutti i giorni (cod. 416BB) per Laurea in Fisica<br\/><strong>Insegnamenti condivisi\/mutuati:<\/strong><ul class=\"registri-shared\"><li>The physics of every day life \/ la fisica di tutti i giorni (cod. 0039B) - Laurea Magistrale in Fisica<\/li><li>La fisica di tutti i giorni (cod. 416BB) - Laurea in Scienze dei prodotti erboristici e della salute<\/li><li>La fisica di tutti i giorni (cod. 416BB) - Laurea in Scienze dei prodotti erboristici e della salute<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Quantum liquids (cod. 382BB) per Laurea Magistrale in Fisica<br\/><strong>Insegnamenti condivisi\/mutuati:<\/strong><ul class=\"registri-shared\"><li>Quantum liquids (cod. 400BB) - Laurea Magistrale in Materials and nanotechnology<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Current trends in quantum matter (cod. 407BB) per Laurea Magistrale in Fisica<\/li><li>Quantum biology (cod. 0040B) per Laurea Magistrale in Fisica<\/li><li>Fisica ed elementi di matematica e statistica (cod. 004BA) per Laurea in Scienze dei prodotti erboristici e della salute<\/li><\/ul>","unipi-persone-codocenze":"<h4 class=\"mt-2\">Incarichi di co-docenza in moduli\/insegnamenti<\/h4><ul><li>Fisica 2 - Corso B (Cod. 029BB) per Laurea in Fisica<\/li><\/ul>","unipi-persone-interessi-ricerca":"I am an expert in the design of strongly correlated quantum states of matter under extreme conditions of low temperatures, strong interactions, and reduced dimensionality, and of their use for quantum technologies and precision measurements. My best recognized contributions are in the theory of superconductivity and fermionic superfluidity, especially the prediction of resonance superfluidity in Fermi gases later realized by Debbie Jin at JILA (over all papers more than 1000 citations up to date), the first theory of time-dependent density functional for superfluids as a method, and the simulation of Bose-gases dynamics also with applications to atom interferometry (over all papers more than 1000 citations). &nbsp;<br \/>\r\nDuring the last few years, my research has been reborn along new directions, taking advantage of ten years (2008-2018) slow-down for administrative and institutional offices, and while progressively folding up my previous interests. My way in science is extremely curiosity driven, connecting most abstract ideas with real experiments, and markedly with international traits. More recently, I could give to my research a truly cross-disciplinary character, in the way I imagined for myself as a science-passionate child, engendered by more recent encounters with inspiring women-scientists colleagues.<br \/>\r\nMy research now focuses on conceiving and engineering quantum technologies (mainly in quantum gases platforms), using quantum theoretical and simulation methods, in three directions: <br \/><strong>(QS) Quantum simulators<\/strong> to address time-dependent, out-of-equilibrium problems of condensed matter or fundamental physics (like with analogue gravity), neurobiology (like with QoolNeSS), within the driven-dissipative open quantum systems framework. I recently started a program on quantum computing for biological systems within NEXT-Gen EU funded Italian Center for Quantum Computing, also being scientific responsible of a EU-PON funded RTDA grant, and part of ELLIS- European Lab for Learning&amp;Intelligent Systems. More recently, I contributed to start an inter-university collaboration agreement between the Universities of Pisa, Radboud and Helsinki on the theme Quantum Physics and Neuroscience, for which I am the scientific referent at the University of Pisa.<br \/><br \/><strong>(QM) Quantum metrology<\/strong>, also contributing to the cross-disciplinary networks AEDGE (Atomic Experiments for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration in Space), TVLBAI (Terrestrial Very-Long Baseline Atomic Interferometry)&nbsp; and STE-QUEST (Space-Time Explorer and Quantum Equivalence Principle Space Test), and acting as internal reviewer in the VIRGO-LIGO collaboration. <br \/><br \/><strong>PER\/POR.<\/strong> I have more recently formalized my disciplinary activity in Physics Education and Physics Outreach Research, the latter being a field that I have initiated, with a specialization on quantum physics, tutorials-based methods for college students, and teachers training and professional development starting from kindergarten.","_wpml_word_count":"15","_last_translation_edit_mode":"translation-editor","unipi-persone-dati-posizione":""},"organizzazioni":[3648],"class_list":["post-144398","unipi_persone","type-unipi_persone","status-publish","hentry","organizzazioni-dipartimento-di-fisica-469999-en"],"email":"maria.luisa.chiofalo@unipi.it","telefono":"050 2214553","content_plain":"Professoressa Associata &#8211; 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