Guests in 2025

December 2025

Prof. Soumya Bera (Mumbai, India) to work for 4 weeks
on ‘Non-equilibrium dynamics’
in the research group ‘Condensed Matter’
office 1 B 09


Mr. Taikang Chen (Vienna, Austria) to do his PhD
on ‘Electronic structure theory of edge states in unconventional magnets’
in the research group ‘Functional Quantum Matter’
office 2 D 10


Prof. Manoj Gopalakrishnan (Palakkad, India) to work for one month
on ‘Active transport in complex media’
in the research group ‘Biological Physics’
office 2 A 15


Prof. Alejandro Mendoza Coto (Florianópolis, Brazil) to work for six months
on 'Beyond mean field properties of supersolid systems'
in the research group 'Finite Systems'
office: 1 A 20


Dr. Peter Schürger (Orsay, France) to work for one year
on 'Light excitation close to conical intersections'
in the research group 'Finite Systems'
office: 2 B 21


Ms. Elisa Vallini (Köln, Germany) to work for three weeks
on ‘Free Probability in Quantum Dynamics’
in the research group ‘Dynamics of Quantum Information’
office: 1 A 24


Dr. Kartik Samanta (Lincoln, USA) to work for four weeks
on ‘Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJs) with altermagnets’
in the research group ‘Functional Quantum Matter’
office: 2 B 23

 

November 2025

Dr. Hoang Anh Le (Seoul, Korea) to work for three months
on 'Floquet engineering of zigzag graphene nanoribbons'
in the research group 'Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics'
office: 2 D 11


Mr. Jacopo Gliozzi (Urbana, USA) to work for one month
on 'The effect of measurements on fragmented and constrained unitary dynamics in hybrid quantum circuits'
in the research group 'Dynamics of Quantum Information'
office: 2 A 18


Prof. Francesco Sorrentino (Albuquerque, USA) to work for nine months
on ‘Control and Prediction in Nonlinear Complex Networks’
in the research group 'Nonlinear Time Series Analysis'
office: 2 A 18


 

October 2025

Mr. Alexander Gavrishev (London, United Kingdom) to do his PhD
on ‘Phase transitions in strongly-correlated electron systems’
in the research group 'Condensed Matter' 
office: 2 A 21


Mr. Moksh Bhateja (Delhi, India) to do his PhD
on ‘Reinforcement Learning for Quantum Many Body Systems with Tensor Networks’
in the research group 'Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics' office 1 A 29


Prof. Abhik Basu (Kolkata, India) to work for 8 weeks
on 'Ordered active matter at interfaces'
in the research group 'Biological Physics'
office 2 A 15


Mr. Lukas Haller (Munich, Germany) to do his PhD
on ‘Quantum information in many-body dynamics’
in the research group 'Condensed Matter' 
office: 2 D 12


Dr. Caroline (Linge) Li (Hefei, Anhui, China) to work for one year
on 'Control of Differences in pH between Coexisting Liquid Phases'
in the research group 'Biological Physics'
office 2 D 17


Dr. Sudip Mukherjee (Kolkata, India) to work for one month
on ‘Odd viscosity and stochastically driven flows in two dimensions’
in the research group 'Biological Physics'
office 2 B 15


Ms. Iris Smokers (Nijmegen, Netherlands) to work for one year
on ‘Unraveling the physicochemical mechanisms of glycolytic condensate formation and function’
in the research group ‘Biological Physics’
office 2 A 05


Dr. Catalin-Mihai Halati (Geneva, Switzerland) to work for two years
on 'Active control of topological quantum matter with cavity-induced interactions'
in the research group ‘Condensed Matter’
office 1 A 29


Ms. Ramita Mondal (Bengaluru, India) do her PhD
on ‘Elastohydrodyamic couplings in active systems’
in the research group ‘Transport and Flows in Complex Environments’
office 1 B 23


Prof. Jörg Götte (Glasgow, United Kingdom) to work for nine months
on ‘Quantum dynamics and topology’
in the research group ‘Finite Systems’
office 2 D 13


Prof. Xenophon Zotos (Heraklion, Greece) to work for one month
on ‘Topological magnetic textures’
in the research group ‘Condensed Matter’
office 1 B 09


Prof. Marco Baiesi (Padova, Italy) to work for two months
on ‘Development of practical methods for quantifying dissipation in noisy systems’
in the research group 'Biological Physics' 
office: 1 B 05 


Prof. Victor Kagalovsky (Beer-Sheva, Israel) to work for one month
on 'Disorder in strongly interacting low-dimensional systems'
in the research group 'Condensed Matter'
office 1 A 20


Dr. Sthitadhi Roy (Bengaluru, India) to work for one month 
on 'Dynamics of quantum many-body systems' 
in the research group 'Condensed Matter'
office 1 B 15

September 2025

Mr. Alexander Jacoby (Princeton, USA) to work for one month
on ‘Dual-Unitarity and Ruelle-Pollicott Resonances’
in the research group 'Dynamics of Quantum Information' 
office: 2 A 09


Dr. Yuriy Dublenych (Lviv, Ukraine) to work for seven weeks
on ‘Ground states of classical spin systems’
in the research group 'Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics' 
office: 0 G 06


Dr. Edmilson Roque dos Santos (São Carlos, Brazil) to work for one year
on 'Learning sparse network dynamics from data'
in the research group 'Nonlinear Time Series Analysis'
office 2 B 03


Dr. Hsiu-Chung Yeh (New York, USA) to work for one year
on 'Quantum Systems Out of Equilibrium'
in the research group 'Condensed Matter'
office 2 D 06


Mr. Tangdi Luan (München, Germany) to do his PhD
on ‘Statistical continuum mechanics of disordered buckling instabilities’
in the research group 'Self-Organization of Multi-cellular Systems' 
office 1 D 13


Dr. Chunhan Feng (New York, USA) to work for 2 years
on 'The Hubbard/Holstein/SSH model, Quantum Monte Carlo methods, strongly correlated systems, and cold atoms'
as Distinguished PKS Postdoctoral Fellow
office 1 A 13


Mr. Mathis Guéneau (Paris, France) to work for 1 year
on 'Diffusing diffusivity models'
in the research group 'Transport and Flows in Complex Environments'
office 2 A 05


Mr. Yuanxing Hao (Jinan, China) to do his PhD
on 'Control of nonequilibrium states of matter'
in the research group 'Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics'
office 2 A 27


Mr. Francesco Martinuzzi (Leipzig, Germany) to work for 1 year
on 'Generalized Learning of Chaotic Dynamics'
in the research group 'Nonlinear Time Series Analysis'
office 2 B 09


Dr. Kush Saha (Jatni, India) to work for 9 months
on 'Ultrafast Phenomena in Dirac Materials'
in the research group 'Condensed Matter'
office 2 D 15


Dr. Yubo Shi (Beijing, China) to work for 1 month
on 'Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics in Non-Hermitian Systems'
in the research group 'Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics'
office 2 A 03


Dr. Josef Willsher (Munich, Germany) to work for 1 year
on 'Dynamics and Stability of Gapless QSLs'
in the research group 'Condensed Matter'
office 2 D 12

August 2025

Dr. Jonas Karcher (Princeton, USA) to work for one year
on ‘Robustness of Topology against perturbations’
in the research group 'Condensed Matter' 
office: 2 B 23


Prof. Charalampos (Haris) Skokos (Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa) to work for five months
on ‘Numerical investigations of chaos in multi-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems’
in the research group 'Condensed Matter' 
office: 1 A 27


Prof. Israel Klich (Charlottesville, USA) to work for one year
on ‘Non equilibirum theoretical physics’
in the research group 'Condensed Matter' 
office: 2 A 23


Ms. Vira Shyta (Dresden, Germany) to work for one year
on ‘Effective fields theories for topological quantum matter’
in the research group 'Correlations and Topology' 
office: 1 D 13


Prof. Marija Vucelja (Charlottesville, USA) to work for one year
on ‘Nonequilibrium statistical physics’
in the research group 'Condensed Matter' 
office: 2 A 19


Dr. Xin-Chi Zhou (Beijing, China) to work for one year
on ‘Quantum simulation based on Rydberg atoms’
in the research group 'Correlations and Transport in Rydberg Matter' 
office: 2 B 19


Mr. Zuo Wang (Guangzhou, China) to work for one and a half years
on 'Application of Geometric Floquet Theory to Floquet topological
under quasi-periodic driving'
in the research group 'Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics'
office: 2 A 07


Prof. Ernesto Estevez Rams (La Habana, Cuba) to work for 7 weeks
on 'Entropic-based measures of complexity in Fourier space'
in the research group 'Nonlinear Time Series Analysis'
office 2 A 18


Dr. Steffen Grosser (Barcelona, Spain) to work for 8 weeks
on 'Optogenetic control of collective cell dynamics in epithelial monolayers'
in the research group 'The Physics of Living Matter'
office 2 D 17

July 2025

Dr. Jaafar Ansari (Fairfax, USA) to work for 1 year on ‘Experimental signatures of Altermagnetic materials’ in the research group ‘Functional Quantum Matter’
office 2 C 11


Prof. Hossein Fazli (Zanjan, Iran) to work for 9 months on ‘Importance of electrostatic interactions on liquid-liquid phase separation of biological macromolecules’ in the research group 'Biological Physics'
office 2 D 08


Prof. Pradeep Kumar Mohanty (Kolkata, India) to work for 3 weeks on ‘Nonreciprocal interactions’ in the research group 'Biological Physics'
office 2 A 15


Christoph Musch (Chemnitz, Germany) to do his PhD on ‘Rydberg excitons in 2 and 3 dimensional materials’ in the research group ‘Correlations and Transport in Rydberg Matter’
office 2 B 17


Prof. Kirill Shtengel (Riverside, USA) to work for 1 month on ‘Frustrated spin systems’ in the research group 'Condensed Matter'
office 1 A 13


Dr. Lidia Stocker (Zurich, Switzerland) to work for 2 years on ‘Impurities in twisted materials at finite temperature’ in the research group ‘Condensed Matter’
office 2 B 5


Prof. Hongzheng Zhao (Beijing, China) to work for 2 months on ‘Non-equilibrium many-body phases of matter’ in the research group 'Condensed Matter’
office 1 A 20


Prof. Mehran Kardar (Cambridge, USA) to work for 3 weeks as a core member of the Advanced Study Group 'Strongly Correlated Extreme Fluctuations'
office 1 A 27


Prof. Ernesto Estevez Rams (La Habana, Cuba) to work for 7 weeks on ‘Entropic-based measures of complexity in Fourier space’ in the research group 'Nonlinear Time Series Analysis'
office 2 A 18


Dr. Steffen Grosser (Barcelona, Spain) to work for 8 weeks on 'Optogenetic control of collective cell dynamics in epithelial monolayers' in the research group ‘The Physics of Living Matter’
office 2 D 17


June 2025

Dr. Tuan Pham (Amsterdam, Netherlands) to work for three months on ' Dynamics of Biological Networks' in the research group 'Biological Physics'
office 2 B 15


Prof. Dibyendu Das (Mumbai, India) to work for one month on ‘Stochastic processes and variable content of mRNAs and proteins in cells’ in the research group ‘Biological Physics’ office 2 A 18


Dr. Zoya Eremenko (Kharkiv, Ukraine) to work for three months on ‘Enhancing the propagation length of graphene surface plasmon polarity in ordinary graphene/AB-stacked bilayer graphene using a metasurface substrate in a near-zero refractive index regime at Thz band’ in the research group ‘Finite Systems’ office 2 D 15


Dr. Amit Kumar Singh (Paris, France) to work for one month on ‘Role of ion transport in organogenesis’ in the research group ‘Biological Physics’ office 2 A 07


Prof. Amitabha Nandi (Mumbai, India) to work for 1 month on ‘Study of active transport during morphogenesis’ in the research group 'Biological Physics'
office 1 B 09


Dr. Somrita Ray (Berhampur, India) to work for 1 month on ‘Trade-off between cost and speed in biophysical processes with stochastic resetting’ in the research group 'Biological Physics'
office 1 B 12


May 2025

Dr. Samudrajit Thapa (Guwahati, India) to work for 2 months on ‘Bayesian inference of change-points for segmented fractional Brownian motion trajectories; Detecting the local and global variations of the long-range dependence in daily temperature data’ in the research group ‘Nonlinear Time Series Analysis’ office 2 D10


Dr. Florette Fobasso (Dschang, Cameroon) to work for one year on ‘Study of Altermagnetic lifting of Kramers spin degeneracy‘ in the research group ’Functional Quantum Matter‘ office 415 (guesthouse)


Prof. Stefan Kettemann (Bremen, Germany) to work for two months on ‘Strong Disorder Renormalization Group Method, Many Body Localization, Quantum Synchronization, Inhomogeneous Superconductivity‘ in the research group ’Condensed Matter‘ office 2 D 13


Prof. Shamik Sen (Mumbai, India) to work for one month on ‘Cellular Potts model for studying the role of glycocalyx heterogeneity in cancer invasion‘ in the research group ’Biological Physics‘ office 1 B 09


Dr. Fengfeng Song (Japan) to work for three weeks on 'Interplay between stripe order and superconductivity‘ in the research group 'Superconductivity and Magnetic Correlations‘ office 1 A 13

April 2025

Han Yan (Tokyo, Japan) to work for three weeks on ‘Generalized Gauge Theories and Lattice Models’ in the research group ‘Condensed Matter’ office 1 A 16


Dr. Yuriy Dublenych (Lviv, Ukraine) to work for six weeks on 'Ground states of frustrated classical spin systems‘ in the research group 'Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics‘ office 0 G 6


Dr. Damian Gabriel Hernandez Lahme (Bariloche, Argentina) to work for two months on 'Estimation of conditional mutual information with few samples: Applications to feature detection in biophysics‘ in the research group 'Biological Physics‘ office 1 D 13


Dr. Marios Michael (Hamburg) to work for two years on 'Equilibrium and dynamics of light-matter hybrids' in the research group 'Condensed Matter‘ office 2 B 23

March 2025

Malte Biehringer to do his PhD on ’Topoligical Dynamics’ In the research group ‚Condensed Matter‘ Office 1 A 11

February 2025

Mr. Leif Peters to work for 3 years on ‘Phoretic Active Matter’ in the research group ‘Transport and Flows in Complex Environments’ office 1 D 07


Dr. Warlley Hudson Campos to work for 1 year on ‘Altermagnetism in cuprates’ in the research group ‘Functional Quantum Matter’ office 0 G 5


Mr. Paul Ebert (Dresden, Germany) to work for 3 years on ‘Advanced Tensor Network Techniques in Strongly-correlated Electron Systems’ in the research group ‘Superconductivity and Magnetic Correlations’ office 1 A 28


Prof. Jean Sire Armand Eyebe Fouda (Yaoundé, Cameroon) to work for 3 monthson ‘A novel Complexity Measure for the Detection of Climate Regime Transitions’ in the research group ‘Nonlinear Time Series Analysis’ office 2 A 18


Prof. Thomas Gorin (Guadalajara, Mexico) to work for 9 months on ‘Classical and quantum stochastic processes’ in the research group ‘Finite Systems’ office 1 D 09


Dr. Luz Marina Reyes Barrera (Guadalajara, Mexico) to work for 9 months on ‘Physical and dynamical properties of evolving neural networks’ in the research group ‘Nonlinear Time Series Analysis’ office 1 D 11

January 2025

Bernardo Barrera Godinez (Boston, US) to work for six weeks on ’The Moving Born-Oppenheimer Approximation’ in the research group ‚Condensed Matter‘ office 1 A 29


Dr. Saraswat Bhattacharyya (Oxford, UK) to work for two years on ‚Energetics and Pressure of Cell Monolayers‘ in the research group ’The Physics of Living Matter’ office 1 B 10


Kshitij Deshpande (Heidelberg, Germany) to work for three years on ‚A single Molecule Perspective on Collective Protein-DNA interactions in the research group ‚Biological Physics‘ office 1 B 21


Prof. Alain Moise Dikande (Buea, Cameroon) to work for three months on ’On a deterministic model for Earthquakes: competition between nonlinear velocity-weakening frictions and anharmonic elastic stresses’ in the research group ’Nonlinear Time Series Analysis’ office 2 D 13


Dr. Matthias Gohlke (Onna-son, Japan) to work for six weeks on ‚Interacting mignons at finite temperature‘ in the research group Superconductivity and Magnetic Correlations’ office 1 A 16


Prof. Sumiran Pujari (Mumbai, India) to work for nine weeks on ‚Quantum Phase Transitions‘ in the research group ‚Condensed Matter‘ office 1 A 13


Shreyas Raman (Boston, US) to work for six weeks on ’Many-Body Mobility Edge in Bath-Coupled Localized Systems’ in the research group ‚Condensed Matter‘ office 1 A 18


Dr. Dmitry Savin (Uxbridge, UK) to work for three months on ‚Random matrix theory approach to scattering and transport in complex systems‘ in the research group ‚Dissipative Quantum Matter‘ office 2 A 15


Prof. Pragya Shukla (Kharakpur, India) to work for four months on ‚Quantum Information in Noisy environments: Applications of system dependent random matrix techniques‘ in the research group ‚Condensed Matter‘ office 1 B 12


Prof. Martin Zirnbauer (Köln, Germany) to work for six weeks on ‚Anderson transitions‘ in the Advanced Study Group ‚Strongly Correlated Extreme Fluctuations‘ office 2 D 08