Group members

All phone numbers are preceeded by +49-221-470 | E-mail addresses are all @thp.uni-koeln.de.

Simon Trebst (cv)
Group leader
Room: TP 2.12 | Tel: 7420 | email: trebst | skype: simon.trebst | github repository

My interests span a broad range of topics in condensed matter physics. Recent themes include the emergence and stability of topological order in interacting quantum many-body systems, the formation of exotic quantum states in highly-frustrated systems, and the development of numerical approaches to conquer these problems.

Jan Attig
PhD student
Room: 110 | Tel: 4208 | email: jattig | github repository

Spiral spin liquids, topological mechanics, RIXS.

Carsten Bauer
PhD student
Room: TP 2.05 | Tel: 1053 | email: bauer | website | github repository

Competing orders and quantum criticality in metals.

Christoph Berke
PhD student
Room: TP 2.05 | Tel: 1053 | email: berke

Field-driven phenomena in Kitaev spin liquids.

Tim Eschmann
Postdoc
Room: 110 | Tel: 4208 | email: eschmann

Thermodynamics of fractionalization in spin-orbit entangled matter.

Frederic Freyer
PhD student
Room: 110 | Tel: 4208 | email: ffreyer

Interacting many-fermion systems.

Martin Gembé
PhD student
Room: 110 | Tel: 4208 | email: mgembe

Critical speeding up.

Lasse Gresista
Master student
Room: home office

Renormalization group approaches for frustrated magnets.

Dominik Kiese
PhD student
Room: 110 | Tel: 3481 | email: dkiese

Functional renormalization group for frustrated magnets.

Kai Meinerz
PhD student
Room: TP 2.05 | Tel: 4208 | email: kmeinerz

Machine learning.

Chae-Yeun Park
Postdoc
Room: TP 1.10 | Tel: 1043 | email: cypark | website

Quantum machine learning.

Independent junior research group

Ciarán Hickey
Junior research group leader
Room: TP 2.11 | Tel: 1059 | email: chickey | website

Topological order, entanglement, and strong correlations.

Vaishnavi Jayakumar
PhD student (supervised by Ciarán Hickey)
Room: TP 2.05 | Tel: 1053 | email: vj

Neutral metals.

Administrative support

Yasemin Tieben
Room: TP 2.09 | Tel: 5756 | email: tieben

Group alumni

Prof. Maria Hermanns, University of Stockholm
Postdoc, Emmy-Noether group leader 2012-2017

Maria's group in Stockholm

PhD students
Tim Eschmann '20, Finn Lasse Büßen '19, Kevin O'Brien '19 (co-supervised with M. Hermanns),
Peter Bröcker '18, Max Gerlach '17, Johannes Helmes '16, Michael Becker '14
(see also their PhD theses)

Master students
Vaishnavi Jayakumar '20 (co-supervised with C. Hickey), Ankita Negi '20 (co-supervised with V. Dwivedi), Bahar Ghannad '19, Kai Meinerz '18, Dominik Kiese '18, Dennis Wawrzik '17, Tilman Disselkamp '17, Jan Attig '17, Tim Eschmann '16, Finn Lasse Büssen '16, Wilfried Michel '15, Stephanie Matern '15 Kevin O'Brien '14, Stefan Wolff '14, Mascha Baedorf '14, Peter Broecker '13, Stefan Bittihn '13

Bachelor students
Adriane Bastiaens '20, Philip Valder '20, Jan Reuter '19, Florian Michael '18, Jonas Rath '18, Jonas Wassmer '18,
Simon Barton '17, Konstantin Dietrich '17, Frederic Freyer '17, Martin Gembe '17, Felix Henschke '17,
David Lindner '16, Manuel Zohlen '15, Benjamin Heil '15, Tim Eschmann '14, Jan Attig '14,
Dirk Schaefer '14, Finn Lasse Büssen '14, Wilfried Michel '13, Peter Gerliz '13, Oliver Wohak '12

Open positions

If you are interested in joining our group, please contact us.