MATTER - Key Persons


Arne Geipel

Job Titles:
  • Bachelor Student
Arne carried out the research for his Bachelor thesis in physics at LMU between October 2022 and January 2023 in our group. He built a spatially incoherent light source for high-quality DMD potentials.

Cady Feng

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant
Cady worked in the group as a research intern from June 2022 to August 2022 as part of the Princeton University Summer Work Program.

Daniel Dux

Job Titles:
  • Masters Student
Daniel is pursuing a Masters of Science in Physics degree at Heidelberg University, where he previously worked in Selim Jochim's lab. He joins the UniRand project as an external Master student. Daniel joined the group in September 2022.

Dr. Philipp Preiss

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator
Philipp obtained his PhD from Harvard University for work in the group of Markus Greiner. From 2016 to 2021, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Selim Jochim at Heidelberg University. He joined MPQ in September 2021. Philipp leads the Atomic Quantum Matter group and is the project leader of FermiQP.

Gaurav Vaidya

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant
Gaurav worked in the group as a research intern from February 2022 July 2022 while on an exchange semester at TUM from IIT Madras.

Jan Wozniak

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant
Jan joined the group as a research assistant from April 2022 to July 2022 while pursuing the QST Master at LMU.

Jonas Kruip

Job Titles:
  • Masters Student
Jonas is persuing his Master of Science in Physics degree at ETH Zurich, where he also completed his bachelor studies. After his exchange semester in Copenhagen this spring, he joined the UniRand group in September 2023

Marcus Culemann

Job Titles:
  • Masters Student
Marcus received his BSc from Ruhr University Bochum and is studying for the Master of Science in Physics degree at LMU. He joined our group in May 2023 and is working on tweezer systems for fast lattice loading.

Naman Jain

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student
Naman did his undergraduate work at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology. For his Masters, he worked at the Cryogenic Storage Ring at MPIK, Heidelberg, studying the quantum dynamics of cold diatomic molecular ions. Later, he worked on a space-based rubidium atomic frequency standard at the Indian Space Research Organisation. Naman joined the group in October 2021.

Soumyadeep Sarkar

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant
Soumya is in the QST Master program and worked with us as a research assistant from August to December 2022.

Xinyi Huang

Job Titles:
  • Masters Student
Xinyi is studying for the Master of Science in Physics degree at LMU and joined our group for his Masters thesis in August 2023. Prior to that, Xinyi was a student at Peking University and workd in Prof. Xuzong Chen's lab. Xinyi will implement an optical accordion lattice.