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 | github repository
Group leader
Room: TP 2.12 | Tel: 7420 | email: 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.

Christoph Berke
Postdoc
Room: TP 2.05 | Tel: 1053 | email: berke
Postdoc
Room: TP 2.05 | Tel: 1053 | email: berke
Many-body localization in transmon arrays.
Field-driven phenomena in Kitaev spin liquids.
Field-driven phenomena in Kitaev spin liquids.

Simon-Dominik Börner
PhD student
Room: TP 2.05 | Tel: 1053
PhD student
Room: TP 2.05 | Tel: 1053
Driven transmon arrays.

Finn Eckstein
Master student
Room: TP 1.10 | Tel: 4208
Master student
Room: TP 1.10 | Tel: 4208
Monitored quantum circuits.


Lasse Gresista
PhD student
Room: 110 | Tel: 4208 | email: gresista
PhD student
Room: 110 | Tel: 4208 | email: gresista
Renormalization group approaches for frustrated magnets.

Theo Haas
Master student
Room: TP 1.10 | Tel: 4208
Master student
Room: TP 1.10 | Tel: 4208
Quantum error correction.

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

Quinten Preiß
Master student
Room: 111
Master student
Room: 111
Monitored quantum circuits.

Malte Pütz
Master student
Room: 111
Master student
Room: 111
Nishimori cat states.


Daniel Simm
Master student
Room: 110
Master student
Room: 110
Clifford circuits.

Yoshito Watanabe
Postdoc
Room: TP 2.11
Postdoc
Room: TP 2.11
Frustrated magnetism.

Guo-Yi Zhu
Postdoc
Room: TP 2.11 | Tel: 1059 | email: gzhu@uni-koeln.de
Postdoc
Room: TP 2.11 | Tel: 1059 | email: gzhu@uni-koeln.de
Topological order, monitored quantum circuits.
Administrative support

Group alumni
PostdocsProf. Ciarán Hickey, University of Dublin ('17-'22, Max Delbrück-Award '22)
Chae-Yeun Park, Xanadu ('20-'21) [github repository]
Prof. Maria Hermanns, University of Stockholm ('12-'17, Emmy-Noether group, Max Delbrück-Award '16)
PhD students
Christoph Berke '23, Dominik Kiese '22, Jan Attig '22, Carsten Bauer '20, Tim Eschmann '20,
Finn Lasse Büßen '19, Kevin O'Brien '19 (with M. Hermanns), Peter Bröcker '18, Max Gerlach '17,
Johannes Helmes '16, Michael Becker '14
(see also their PhD theses)
Master students
Bernhard Wortmann '23, Simon-Dominik Börner '22, Luca Peterlini '22, 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
Bianca Bannenberg '23, Quinten Preiß '21, Daniel Simm '21, Tobias Dörstel '21, Lukas Noth '21, Malte Pütz '21,
Joel Kunkel '21, 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