Alumni

Riccardo Porotti (Dr.) - Riccardo defended his thesis on Reinforcement Learning for Quantum Control with Feedback in 2023. He now works as a senior data scientist at Prometeia in Milan, Italy

Leopoldo Sarra (Dr.) - Leopoldo defended his thesis on Artificial Scientific Discovery in 2023. He now works as a Research Fellow at the Flatiron Institute in New York, USA.

Tirth Shah (Dr.) - Tirth defended his thesis on Topologically protected phenomena in nanomechanical systems in 2022. Since January 2023, he works as a quantum algorithm developer for Q.ANT GmbH in Stuttgart.

Stefan Nimmrichter (Prof. Dr.) - Group leader - Since 2020, Stefan works as Junior Professor at Universität Siegen, Germany

Namrata Shukla (Prof.) - Postdoctoral researcher - Namrata now works as Assistant Professor at Physics Department, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

Thales Figueiredo Roque (Dr.) - Postdoctoral researcher

Petru Tighineanu (Dr.) - Postdoctoral researcher - Since spring 2019, he works for Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence in Renningen.

Christian Brendel (Dr.) - Christian defended his thesis on Topologically Protected Transport of Phonons at the Nanoscale in 2019.

Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch (Prof.) - Group leader - Carlos now works as GenT Distinguished Researcher (tenure track Associate Professor equivalent) at the Optics Department of the University of Valencia, Spain.

Talitha Lange (Weiß) (Dr.) – Talitha defended her thesis on Nonlinear dynamics in quantum synchronization and topological transport in 2017. She now works as a senior software engineer at CARIAD in Kösching, Bavaria.

Petr Zapletal - Petr defended his master's thesis at FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg / MPL in 2017. Since then, he has moved on to Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, to study for his PhD.

Roland Lauter (Dr., Dipl.-Phys.) – Roland defended his thesis on Nonlinear collective phase dynamics of limit-cycle oscillator lattices in 2017. He now works for Carl Zeiss AG in Oberkochen.

Sadegh Raeisi (Dr.) – Postdoctoral Researcher

Stefan Walter (Dr., M. A.) – Postdoctoral Researcher

Michael Schmidt (Dr., M. Sc. hon.) – Michael defended his thesis on Optomechanical arrays and multimode systems, on June 11, 2015; starting May 2016, he joined the consulting company McKinsey in Munich.

Andreas Kronwald (Dr., M.Sc.hon.) – Andreas defended his thesis on Nonlinear quantum effects and squeezing in cavity optomechanics, on April 17, 2015; in August 2015 he joined the consulting company B&W Deloitte in Cologne.

Stefan Kessler (Dr., Dipl.-Phys.) – Stefan defended his thesis on Quantum many-body dynamics of ultracold atoms in optical lattices, on April 15, 2014. Since the spring of 2015 he works at the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation

Deng Zhijiao (Ms.) – Postdoctoral Researcher – visited Dec 2012 to July 2014, now back as a lecturer at China National University of Defense Technology.

Steven Habraken (Dr.) – Postdoctoral Researcher – since July 2014 working as a Resident in medical physics at Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam – Department of Radiation Oncology.

Koppany Kormoczi (M. Sc.)

Oliver Viehmann (Dipl.-Phys.; Dr.) – Oliver defended his thesis on Multi-qubit circuit quantum electrodynamics (co-supervised with Jan von Delft) at LMU Munich, on September 3, 2013; since beginning of 2014 work as a consultant.

Max Ludwig (Dipl.-Phys., Dr.) – Max defended his thesis on Collective quantum effects in optomechanical systems, on February 7, 2013; At the end of October 2013, he joined the consulting company Boston Consulting Group in Munich.

Clemens Neuenhahn (Dipl.-Phys., Dr.) – Clemens defended his thesis on nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems, on December 5, 2012. Since the fall of 2013 he is with the consulting company Roland Berger in Berlin.

Björn Kubala (Postdoc, Dr., Dipl.-Phys.) – Björn moved to the University of Ulm end of 2011.

Huai-Zhi Wu (PhD) – visiting researcher during his PhD, in 2009-2011.

Georg Heinrich (Dr., Dipl.-Phys.) – PhD October 2011: Nanomechanics interacting with light: Dynamics of coupled multimode optomechanical systems. Georg moved to a position with Boston Consulting Group in Hamburg after his PhD and he is now with UBS in Switzerland.

Ferdinand Helmer (Dr., Dipl.-Phys., MSc) – PhD July 2009: Quantum information processing and measurement in circuit quantum electrodynamics at LMU Munich – now with Dr. Neuburger & Partner.

Benjamin Abel (Dr., Dipl.-Phys.) – PhD February 2009: Macroscopic superposition states and decoherence by quantum telegraph noise at LMU Munich.

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