Youcef Baamara is originally from the M’zab Valley, a beautiful oasis city in southern Algeria. He is a PostDoc in the Rey group since September 2024. His research focuses on ultracold atoms and quantum metrology, with particular interest in studying relativistic effects in optical lattice clocks and spin-exchange interactions in dipolar quantum gases. Before joining JILA, he obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Sorbonne University Paris, where he carried out his research on quantum correlations and quantum metrology at Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel under the supervision of Prof. Alice Sinatra and Dr. Manuel Gessner. He also holds a Master’s degree in Physics from Sorbonne University and a Bachelor’s degree in Fundamental Physics from Houari Boumediene University of Science and Technology Algiers. His scientific interests center on understanding the behavior of many-body quantum systems and harnessing their properties for technological applications.