Thesis projects

Over the years we had the privilege to work with a number of talented PhD students. The cumulation of their work, the submitted thesis, can be found here.



Martin Gembé
PhD, December 2023
Frustrated Magnetism, Monopole Dynamics, and Non-Coplanar Ordering
in Classical Spin Systems
Christoph Berke
PhD, February 2023
Transmon-based Quantum Computers from a Many-Body Perspective
Dominik Kiese (github)
PhD, August 2022
Effective field theories for strongly correlated fermions
Insights from the functional renormalization group
Jan Attig (github)
PhD, March 2022
Electronic Spectra: Topology, Supersymmetry, and Statistics
Carsten Bauer (LinkedIn)
PhD, November 2020
Simulating and machine learning quantum criticality in a nearly antiferromagnetic metal
Tim Eschmann (LinkedIn)
PhD, June 2020
Thermodynamics of Kitaev Spin Liquids
Finn Lasse Büßen (website)
PhD, August 2019
A Functional Renormalization Group Perspective on Quantum Spin Liquids in Three-Dimensional Frustrated Magnets


Ernst-Ising Dissertation Prize 2019
Kevin O'Brien (LinkedIn)
PhD, May 2019
Three-dimensional Kitaev spin liquids
Peter Bröcker (LinkedIn)
PhD, April 2018
Disentangling and machine learning the many-fermion problem
Max Gerlach (LinkedIn)
PhD, January 2017
Quantum Monte Carlo studies of a metallic spin-density wave transition
Johannes Helmes (LinkedIn)
PhD, December 2016
An entanglement perspective on phase transitions, conventional and topological order
Michael Becker (LinkedIn)
PhD, November 2014
Defects in strongly correlated and spin-orbit entangled quantum matter