About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Marin Bukov's group at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany. I received my PhD in physics from ETH Zurich in 2023.

Currently, I am working on quantum control and the use of quantum information theory to characterize quantum many-body systems. I have also done extensive work on hyperbolic lattices, which are the analogue of periodic structures in the space of constant negative curvature and have potential applications ranging from high-energy physics over cosmology to quantum error correction. In metamaterial experiments, we have shown that hyperbolic lattices enable simulations of negatively curved space and we have developed and applied methods to study their quantum properties. See research interests, projects and publications for more details and past projects.

I am passionate about writing reusable code and thus publish all of my research code and data online. You can find links to data and code repositories in the publication posts, they are hosted either on the Research Collection of ETHZ or on Zenodo. I have also published a large part of the code used for studying hyperbolic lattices in a pair of open-source software packages: HyperCells and HyperBloch.

Short CV

2023 - present

Postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany.

2019 - 2023

PhD in Condensed Matter Theory, ETH Zurich / Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland supervised by Prof. Dr. Tomáš Bzdušek. Associated PhD Student at University of Zurich, Switzerland

2018 - 2019

Master Thesis in Condensed Matter Theory, Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, Caltech, CA USA

2012 - 2019

BSc and MSc in Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Selected Prizes and Awards

• SPS Award in Condensed Matter Physics for PhD thesis (2024)
• ETH Silver Medal for outstanding PhD thesis (2023)
• Gold medal at the International Young Physicists' Tournament as a team leader of the Swiss team (2016)
• Member of the Swiss Study Foundation (2012 - 2021)

Supervision and Teaching

• Benoît Fanton (2024): Master student (École Normale Supérieure - PSL, France), co-supervised by Dr. Marin Bukov
• Marcelo Looser (2023 - 2024): Master student (University of Zurich, Switzerland), co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Tomáš Bzdušek

2022: Solid State Theory (ETH Zurich)
2021: Mechanics of Continua (ETH Zurich)
2020: Solid State Theory (ETH Zurich)
2018: Theory of Heat (ETH Zurich)

Outreach

During my time in Zurich, I was a board member and juror in the association Pro IYPT-CH that organizes the Swiss version of the International Young Physicist's Tournament (IYPT), a high-school physics competition, and prepares students for the international tournament. Previously, I have also mentored students in this competition and have participated as a juror at the IYPT. For more information, please visit www.sypt.ch.