People at the Max Planck Graduate Center for Quantum Materials

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

Research topics:

• development of ab initio methods for treating correlated electronic systems, including quantum chemical and quantum Monte Carlo methods
• many-body perturbation theories
• superexchange antiferromagnetic coupling in cuprates
• spin chemistry of Fe-porphyrns
• development of time-dependent methods, i.e. time-propagation of correlated electronic systems using a stochastic propagation technique, inspired by the ground-state FCIQMC method

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI-FKF) (starting from April 2026)

Research topics:

• nanofabrication of graphene structures
• quantum transport at ultra-low temperatures
• strong electron interactions in one- and two-dimensional systems
• electron-electron interactions in quantum materials
• the interplay between quantum confinement, non-trivial topology and interaction strength

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University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Research topics:

• effects of hard constraints in classical and quantum systems (dimer, vertex, and colouring models)
• kinematic constraints, out of equilibrium phenomena, freezing and glassiness
• frustrated magnetism, classical and quantum spin liquids
• entanglement, topological order, quantum information and quantum computing
• photoinduced phases of matter

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg

Research Topics:

• physics of strongly correlated electron systems
• light induced superconductivity
• control of magnetism and of correlated-electron (Mott) insulators
• nonlinear THz spectroscopy of Quantum Materials
• Dirac Carrier dynamics

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

Research topics:

• Theory of correlated quantum materials
• Collective electronic behaviour 
• Unconventional superconductivity
• Quantum criticality
• Field theory methods and emergent phenomena

Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Research Topics:

• non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum materials
• coherent control and spectroscopy of quantum materials
• spin-orbit coupling and unconventional superconductivity
• new avenues in charge and spin manipulation at surfaces
• 2D van der Waals materials and oxide heterostructures

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden

Research topics:

• Nanomagnetism
• Magnetic topological textures and their dynamics
• Three-dimensional magnetic nanostructures
• Synchrotron X-ray magnetic microscopy
• Method development for vector imaging techniques

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden

Research topics:

• Heusler compounds with X₂YZ with L2₁ and XYZ with C1_b structure type
• topological insulators, Weyl semimetals, new Fermions
• thermoelectric materials, topological catalysis
• non-centrosymmetric superconductivity

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden

Research topics:

• Correlated quantum materials: unconventional superconductors, Mott insulators, frustrated magnets, low-dimensional magnets
• Strain and pressure tuning
• Thermodynamic and transport measurements
• Elastic properties of quantum materials in the non-linear regime

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

Research topics:

• structure and dynamics of quantum materials
• unconventional superconductivity
• metal-oxide interfaces and heterostructures
• interplay of spin-orbit coupling and correlations
• development of new spectroscopic methods

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

Research topics:

• nanoscale science and technology with a focus on the bottom-up paradigm
• atomic scale phenomena
• molecular engineering & photonics
• quantum materials & devices
• quantum sensing
• quantum dynamics
• nano-bio interfaces

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

Research topics:

• discovery of new functional solids by combining solid-state chemistry, molecular chemistry, and nanochemistry
• 2D materials and heterostructures
• photo(electro)catalysis
• topological materials
• electrochemical energy storage
• stimuli-responsive photonic nanostructures

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden

Research topics:

• low temperature ordered states
• interacting electron mesoscopics
• thermodynamic and transport measurements on interacting electron systems

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

Research topics:

• exploring interfaces in complex electronic materials to create and understand new electronic systems, materials, and novel physical phenomena; investigating them for applications
• synthesizing complex oxide heterostructures on the atomic scale, studying the effects of lateral confinement on the nanometer scale to create lower dimensional, complex electronic systems
• understanding, designing, and using electronic properties of correlated electron systems
• exploring basic properties of matter on the atomic scale by using scanning probe techniques

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

Research topics:

• quantum many-body theory
• strongly correlated electrons
• unconventional superconductivity
• topological quantum matter

Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden

Research topics:

• theory of quantum materials:
• collective phenomena
• new kinds of order 
• quantum dynamics
• active matter, non-reciprocal and non-Hermitian physics

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg

Research topics:

• Correlated and topological systems including heavy fermions, high-Tc and Dirac/Weyl/multifold materials
• 3D structural deformation in crystalline structures and its impact on quantum transport
• Size effects and shapin microstructured crystals
• Physical properties in high magnetic fields;
• Focused Ion Beam fabrication of quantum materials
• Prototyping of novel materials in applications

Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle

Research topics:

• spintronics
• nano-photonics
• topological materials
• neuromorphic devices

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg 

Research Topics:

• Nuclear quantum effects in molecules, solids, liquids and interfaces
• Electron-phonon coupling in organic and inorganic systems
• Advanced simulations of vibrational spectroscopy techniques in liquid and solid state
• Structure search techniques aided by machine learning

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg

Research topics:

• new exotic states of matter out of equilibrium: Topological materials
• QED-Chemistry and Materials
• fundamental aspects of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory and Many-Body Perturbation Theory
• strong light-matter interactions and Optimal control Theory
• electronic and Thermal transport
• nanostructures: 2D materials, nanotubes
• code development: development of the first principles open-sorce project octopus

Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle

Research topics:
Spectroscopy of quantum materials:

• New fermionic quasiparticles in chiral crystals
• Topological materials and interfaces
• Heterostructures for quantum devices

Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden

Research topics:

• Functional quantum, relativistic and topological matter
• Symmetry and first principle theory of electronic structure 
• Unconventional magnetic materials: altermagnets and beyond
• Spintronics and nanoelectronics

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

Research topics:

• Physics of correlated electrons in two-dimensional charge carrier systems
• Interfacial interactions in van der Waals heterostructures
• Electrochemically driven intercalation and ion transport in 2D materials and interfaces
• Topological phenomena in 2D electron systems
• Nuclear spin – electron spin interactions in low dimensional systems

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

Research topics:

• novel superconductors - discovery and mechanisms
• exploration of quantum spin liquids
• charge liquids on geometrically frustrated lattices
• pioneering novel electronic phases induced by spin-orbit interaction
• high performance thermoelectric materials

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden

Research topics:

• electronic structure of strongly correlated systems
• metal-insulator and spin-state transitions, orbital physics
• transition metal oxides and rare-earth/uranium intermetallics
• MBE-grown oxide thin films and topological insulator interfaces
• development of new synchrotron-based x-ray spectroscopies

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden

Research topics:

• quantum sensing techniques for material exploration
• nanoscale scanning magnetometry using nitrogen-vacancy centers
• superconducting quantum circuits
• hybrid quantum circuits with van der Waals heterostructures

Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden

Research topics:

• Exotic states of matter for strongly correlated superconductors
• Frustrated magnetism and quantum spin liquids
• Computational physics, high-performance computing
• Tensor Networks, Exact Diagonalization, Quantum Monte Carlo

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University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart

Research topics:

• quantum spintronics
• nanoscale quantum sensing
• quantum information processing
• solid state quantum optics