Distinguished PKS Postdoctoral Fellows

Distinguished PKS Postdoctoral Fellows and Junior Professors

Distinguished PKS postdoctoral fellows conduct independent research which complements and adds to the variety of topics currently studied in the field of the physics of complex systems our institute. These positions are limited to three years. PKS fellows often leave the institute for a tenured academic university position worldwide. 

Current Distinguished PKS Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Li Ern Chern
Dr. Gianluca Teza

Former Fellows and their present position

Dr. Suzy Zhang
Assistant Professor, OIST
Dr. Nazmi Burak Budanur
Private Sector
Dr. Stefano Bo
Lecturer, King's College London
Dr. Matthew Eiles
Group Leader, MPI-PKS
Dr. Falko Pientka
Tenure track professor, Goethe University Frankfurt
Dr. Aline Ramires
Group leader, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villingen
Dr. Felix Mackenroth
Private Sector
Dr. Andre Cardoso Barato
Assistant professor, University of Houston
Dr. Edgar Roldan
Associate Research Officer, ICTP Trieste
Dr. Robert Johne
Private Sector
Dr. Alexander Croy
Staff scientist, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Dr. Benjamin Friedrich
Group leader, TU Dresden
Dr. Achilleas Lazarides
Seniour Lecturer, Loughborough University
Dr. Chiu Fan Lee
Reader, Imperial College London
Dr. Emil Bergholtz
Professor, Stockholm Univeristy
Dr. Vitali Averbukh
Professor, Imperial College London
Dr. Masudul Haque
Staff Scientist, TU Dresden
Dr. Balazs Dora
Associate Professor, TU Budapest
Dr. Kay Hamacher
Professor, TU Darmstadt
Dr. Benjamin Lindner
Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin
Dr. Jaroslaw Fabian
Professor, University of Regensburg
Dr. Heike Emmerich
Professor, University of Bayreuth
Dr. Rainer Klages
Reader, Queen Mary University of London
Dr. Manfred Lein
Professor, University of Hannover
Dr. Joachim Brand
Professor, Massey University
Dr. Abhik Basu
Professor, Saha Institute for Nuclear Physics

Junior Professors are appointed jointly by a German university where they teach, and by our institute from which their salary comes and where they conduct their research with access to all our facilities.

Former Junior Professor

Prof. Dr. Ilya Eremin
moved to faculty position at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum