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Short CV

9/2008-present:	Group Leader "Simulation of Strongly Correlated Systems", Department Condensed Matter, MPI PKS Dresden
10/2006-8/2008:	Chargé de cours (Lecturer), Section de Physique, EPF Lausanne
9/2004-8/2008:	Project Leader at IRRMA, EPF Lausanne
2002-2004:	Postdoc with D. Poilblanc, LPT, UPS Toulouse
1999-2002:	Ph.D. with T.M. Rice and M. Troyer, ETH Zürich
1996-1999:	Undergraduate studies (Theoretical Physics), ETH Zürich
1995-1996:	Exchange student, ENS Paris
1993-1995:	Undergraduate studies (Physics), ETH Zürich
1988-1992:	Matura Typus C, Aarau, Switzerland

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Research Interests

• Strongly correlated electronic systems
• Frustrated quantum spin systems
• Defects and disorder in correlated systems
• Algorithmic advances in computational physics
• Open source tools in computational physics (see the ALPS project)

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Computational Methods:

• Exact Diagonalization
• Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG)
• Contractor Renormalization (CORE) Method
• Quantum Monte Carlo (SSE, Loop Algorithm, Variational MC, Meron Algorithm)
• Perturbation Expansions