The Strontium Team is

did his undergraduate work at the university of Erlangen and in Vladan Vuletić’s group at MIT. Valentin started his PhD work with us in April 2020. For his doctoral work in the strontium lab, Valentin received a fellowship from the Hector Fellow Academy.

did his undergraduate work at the university of Würzburg. Felix started his PhD work with us in October 2022.

did his undergraduate work at LMU and started his PhD work with us in November 2023.

did his undergraduate work in Roee Ozeri’s group at Weizmann and started his PhD work with us in April 2024.

did her undergraduate work at NUS, Singapore. Ka Hui started her Masters thesis work with us in October 2023.

did her undergraduate work at LMU. Klavdia started her Masters thesis work with us in October 2023.

did his undergraduate work at LMU. Samuya started his Masters thesis work with us in April 2024.

did his PhD in the group of Prof. Jan Thomsen at the Niels Bohr Institute, where he worked on strontium atoms in optical cavities. Sofus won a competitive DFF International Postdoc Fellowship and joined our team in July 2024.

started the strontium lab in April 2015. Here, he combines his experience with strontium atomic clocks as a PhD student (in Jun Ye’s group at JILA) with high-resolution imaging techniques for fermions developed as a postdoc in Markus Greiner’s group at Harvard. In April 2022, he co-founded planqc, a startup that commercializes the neutral-atom quantum computers. Sebastian is acting as CTO of planqc.

is the director of the Quantum Many Body Physics division at the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics and leads the Quantum Optics Group in the Physics Department at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Alumni

Many of our group members stay in the same field and end up working at all kinds of research labs in many countries. Here is a list of recent lab members:

Sebastian Pucher, PhD
Postdoc 2022 – 2024. Now working for Menlo Systems.
Andreas Schindewolf, PhD
Postdoc 2023 – 2024. Now working in Tim Langen’ group at TU Vienna.
Andreas Meyer, MSc
Master student 2022 – 2023.
Andrew Whimster, MSc
Master student 2022 – 2023.
Ömer Faruk Erşahan, MSc
Master student 2022 – 2023.
Dimitry Yankelev, PhD
Postdoc 2021 – 2023. Now at runs his own group at Rafael, Israel.
Jan Trautmann, PhD
PhD student 2019 – 2022. Now working for Kipu.
Luca Göcke
Intern from TUM, Spring and Summer 2022.
Hugh Christian Skinker
Summer intern from Princeton, Summer 2022
Soham Mukherjee
Summer intern from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, Summer 2022
Daniel Molpereces
Intern from LMU, Spring 2022.
Annie Jihyun Park, PhD
PhD student 2015 – 2021. Now a postdoc in the Ni Group.
Dimitrios Tsevas, MSc
Master student 2020 – 2021.
Yilong Yang, MSc
Master student 2020 – 2021.
André Heinz, PhD
PhD student 2015 – 2020.
Eva Casotti, MSc
Master student 2019 – 2020.
Florian Wallner, MSc
Master student 2019 – 2020.
Neven Šantić, PhD
Postdoc 2018 – 2020. Now runs his own group at the Institute of Physics, Zagreb.
Mateo Kruljac, MSc
Intern from Institute of Physics, Zagreb, Fall 2019.
Rudolf Haindl, MSc
Master student 2018 – 2019.
Etienne Staub, MSc
Master student 2018 – 2019.
Tianli Wang
Summer intern 2019.
Ivan Kokhanovskyi
Bachelor student 2019.
Stepan Snigirev, PhD
Postdoc 2015 – 2018.
Fabian Finger, MSc
Master student 2017 – 2018.
Luisa Eck
Summer intern 2018.
Lucas Kimmig
Intern 2017 – 2018.
Emil Davletov
Summer intern 2017.
Stephan Wissenberg, MSc
Master student 2016 – 2017.
Lukas Homeier, BSc
Bachelor student 2017.
Lev Tepliakov
Summer intern 2016.
Rodrigo González Escudero, MSc
Master student 2015 – 2016.
Nejc Janša, MSc
Master student 2015 – 2016.
Pradyumna Paranjape, MSc
Intern 2015 – 2016.
Zhichao Guo
Summer intern 2015.
Yunpeng Ji
Summer intern 2015.
Qing Fang
Summer intern 2015.