1. Fritz Diorico
Curriculum Vitae
Stättermayergasse 17/1660, 1150 Vienna, Austria
8 Ganciang St., Punta Princesa, Cebu City, Philippines 6000
+43 6607667681
fdiorico@ati.ac.at, fritzdiorico@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fritzdiorico
Nationality: Filipino
Previous Employment
November
2010–Present
Project Research Assistant, Atomchip Group, Atominstitut Technische Universität Wien (Insitute of Atomic
and Subatomic Physics, Vienna University of Technology), Vienna, Austria.
PhD and Post-Doctoral work on the cryogenic atomchip experiment in Jörg Schmiedymayer’s group.
2008–2010 Scholar, Eramus Mundus MSc Photonics, Belgium/Scotland.
I received a scholarship grant to pursue the double degree from the Erasmus Mundus MSc Photonics program.
March-July
2007
Intern, Koshin Philippines Corporation, Mactan, Philippines.
Worked briefly as an intern on Physical Vapour Deposition of thin film coatings for lenses.
Education
Academic Qualifications
2011–2016 Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, (Completed on 27 October 2016), Atominstitut, Technische Universität
Wien, Vienna, Austria, PhD and Post Doctoral work in Joerg Schmiedmayer’s group..
Member of the Complex Quantum Systems (CoQuS) Doctoral program.
2008–2010 Erasmus Mundus Masters of Science in Photonics, Graduated with Distinction, .
2009–2010 MSc. Thesis and coursework, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, 2nd Year of Erasmus Mundus MSc.
Photonics.
Nanophysics (SUPA course), Nanoscience Primer, Advanced Photonics Laboratory, Nanochemistry
2008–2009 MSc Coursework, Ghent Univeristy and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 1st year of Erasmus Mundus
MSc. Photonics..
1 semester each university for coursework.
2003–2008 BSc. Applied Physics, University of San Carlos, Cebu, Philippines, Cum Laude.
1992–2003 Elementary-High School, Sacred Heart School- Atenedo de Cebu, Cebu, Philippines, .
Notable Projects
PhD Thesis: ’Novel Atomchip Technologies with Superconductors’
The work involved combining ultracold atomic physics and superconductivity. A magnetic transport was built to bring ultracold 87
Rb
atoms into a cryogenic environment. The setup opens up new atomchip technologies with superconductors either novel superconducting
traps or with hybrid quantum systems experiments.
MSc Thesis: ’Non-Abelian Atom Optics with Ultracold Atoms’
Research was completed at the Quantum Optics and Cold Atoms research group of Patrik Öhberg in Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh,
UK. The project involved the theoretical study of the wavepacket dynamics of optically induced non-Abelian gauge potentials in 3-level
system through ultracold atoms.
Industrial and BSc.Thesis Project:’Three-dimensional Surface Reconstruction of Lenses through Fourier Domain Analysis
of Interferograms’
This project was done along with the intership at Koshin Philippines Corporation to improve one of their quality control processes.
The research deals with Interferogram Analysis using Fourier transform. A new method of phase sign ambiguity correction that only
requires one interferogram was also introduced. Goldsteins branch cut algorithm was implemented in Matlab for phase unwrapping.
Image processing was done with LabView
BSC. Project:’Numeric Recognition using Boltzmann Machine’
This month-long research was done as a joint subject final requirement for the elective subjects Computer Vision and Neural Networks.
We coded a Boltzmann Machine Neural Network in C to recognize data obtained from Fourier analysis on handwritten numerical
characters which is implement in Labview.

2. Awards and Distinctions
CoQuS member Complex Quantum Systems Doctoral Fellowship
Erasmus Mundus Scholarship 2008-2010 Eramus Mundus MSc. Photonics Program
Erasmus Mundus MSc Photonics Innovation Competition Winner Won the most innovative idea for a Photonics
business contest at the Erasmus Mundus MSc Photonics Summer School, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK on 23-30
June 2010.
BPI-DOST Top 6 Bachelor thesis nation-wide Co-authored a Thesis/Research project that was awarded Bank of the
Philippine Islands – Department of Science and Technology Best Project of the Year Award nationwide. The research is one
of the top 6 finalists out of 29 researches carried out by final year undergraduates all over the country in 2008.
Technical and Personal skills
Programming Languages: Proficient in: C, Matlab, Mathematica, LabView, LaTeX
Also basic ability with: Assembly, VBA, QBasic, Python.
Industry Software Skills: Autocad (Advanced), Autodesk Inventor (Advanced), Matlab (Advanced), LabView (Advanced),
Sonnet Microwave Sims (Intermediate), Most MS Office products (Advanced), Adobe Products (Intermediate), Sony Vegas
(Intermediate), Cakewalk Sonar Audio Engineering (Intermediate).
General Business Skills: Good presentation skills, Works well in a team. Co-organized the Complex Quantum Systems
Summer School conference in 2013.
Other: Good experimental and engineering skills (soldering, electronics, cryogenics, ultra-high vacuum systems, optics,
experimental control and analysis). Can write well organized and structured reports. Supervised three Masters students and
several Bachelors students during the course of the PhD.
Interests and extra-curricular activity
Research interests and experimental skills in: Quantum optics, photonics/optical engineering, cryogenic systems, applied
superconductivity, magnetic field microscopy, magnetostatic calculations, ultracold atomic/molecular physics, laser cooling
and trapping, ultra-high vacuum systems, High current electronics, Diode laser systems
I extremely interested general physics especially on recent advances of other fields of physics. Some personal interests in:
Image processing, Neural Networks, Astrophysics, Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Physics, Gravitational Waves, Planet Hunters
Project
I co-organized the Complex Quantum Systems Summer School conference in 2013. This involved advertising and organizing
the conference and as well as inviting prominent speakers famous in their respectively field.
I was part of the CoQuS project that aimed to combine Arts, Music, and Physics. I along with colleagues built a Laser-Harp
from scratch using an Arduino board and off-the-shelf laser diodes, sensors and electronics.
Avid Musician and Mountaineer
References
Dr. Jörg Schmiedmayer, PhD Supervisor
Professor and Group Leader, Atomchip group, Atominstitut TU Wien, Austria.
Email: schmiedmayer@atomchip.org
Phone: +43-1-58801-141201
Webpage: http://atomchip.org/
Dr. Johannes Majer, Colleague and Experiment Adviser
Staff Scientist, Atomchip group, Atominstitut TU Wien, Austria.
Email: johannes@majer.ch
Phone: +43 1 58801 141838
Webpage: http://www.majer.ch/johannes/
Dr. Patrik Öhberg, MSc Thesis Supervisor
Professor, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Email: p.ohberg@hw.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)131 451 8184
Webpage: http://home.eps.hw.ac.uk/ po15/QOCA/Home.html
Dr. Roland Otadoy, BSc Thesis Supervisor
Physics Department, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philipines
Email: r_otadoy@yahoo.com
Phone: + (63 32) 3443801 loc. 505