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To celebrate the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, the University of Göttingen has realized an installation based on our quantum ping-pong paper with Oliver and Dmitry. More information can be found here.

Oliver Diekmann, who works on his PhD in our group, has recently designed several scientific illustrations for journal covers, press releases and conference presentations – not just for our own group but also for several other teams. Have a look at his new website or get in touch with him if you want to learn more.

Funded by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Excellence Cluster “Quantum Science Austria“, Zeyu Kuang joins the group from Yale University, where he did his PhD with Owen Miller. Welcome Zeyu – we all look forward to the collaboration!

Our lecture Quantum Theory I (presented with Oliver Diekmann, David Globosits and Helmut Hörner in the winter semester 23/24) has been selected as one of the top six finalists for the Best Lecture Award of TU Wien. The final decision will be taken on October 3rd during a ceremony in Kuppelsaal. Fingers crossed!

Congratulations to our faculty’s team participating in the university’s Dragon Boat Cup, where we reached the final and came fourth out of fourteen. Particular thanks go to Max and Luca from our group for participating.

Our long-term postdoc and collaborator Ivor Krešić is leaving the group to take up a permanent position at the Institute of Physics in Zagreb and Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero from the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Innsbruck is joining us on a tenure-track position. All the best, Ivor, for your future endeavours – we hope to stay in touch! – and welcome, Carlos – we look forward to the collaboration!

Two of our works, published together with the groups of Matthieu Davy (in Nature) and of Ori Katz (in Science), were selected jointly for the Top 10 breakthroughs of the year 2022 by PhysicsWorld. Thanks to everyone involved!

Ulf Leonhardt from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel is currently visiting us as a guest professor and giving a lecture on the “quantum vacuum” – a topic to which he has made several seminal contributions. Welcome Ulf!

Andrea Pupic, who carried out her Bachelor thesis on “coherent perfect absorbers” with Kevin Pichler in our group, received the poster price for her research at the event “Celebrating Women in Physics” – congratulations!