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The research at the International Max Planck Research School for Condensed Matter Science (IMPRS-CMS) at the Stuttgart Campus (University of Stuttgart and Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research) hosts an extraordinary array of research groups with a wide spectrum of expertise in fundamental condensed matter science.
Every company or institution can only be as good as the people working for it. Therefore we take great care to select excellent researchers with the right team spirit. The picture shows some of our Alumni on the first level of their professional career as Ph.D. student. Now all of them are pursuing successful careers in academia or industry. Have a look on the pages inside to meet some of our Principal Investigators, current students and Alumni in person.
Congratulations Philip!
We are delighted to congratulate Philip Haupt on the successful defence of his thesis “Development of the Transcorrelated Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo Method“ on 30th April 2025!
Wishing you all the best as your embark on the next chapter of your journey!
Photo © C.Khor
Congratulations Yu-Jung!
Congratulations to Yu-Jung Wu who has defended her thesis on “Opening New Perspectives in Nanotechnology: Symmetry Forbidden Interfaces, Vector Substrates and Self-assembled Nanocrystals" on 4th of February 2025.
Well done Yu-Jung! We wish you all the best and much success in your future endeavours!
Photo © Renate Zimmermann
Alumna Eva Zurek has been named a SUNY Distinguished Professor
Congratulations!
Eva Zurek was one of the first students of the IMPRS-AM, (the predecessor of IMPRS-CMS). One month ago, she was appointed as a SUNY Distinguished Professor, the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system. She has also been nominated as a finalist for the upcoming Falling Walls Science Sumit in the Physical Sciences category.
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Alumnus Pietro Maria Bonetti honored with Otto Hahn Medal
The Max Planck Society awards Pietro Maria Bonetti with the Otto Hahn Medal, for his outstanding achievements for his dissertations on the derivation of exact Ward identities in antiferromagnets and their application to a gauge theory of the pseudogap phase in high temperature superconductors.
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Congratulations Lukas!
A toast to Lukas Debbeler, a fellow student of the Max Planck Graduate Center for Quantum Materials, who has defended his thesis “Quantum critical fluctuations at the onset of incommensurate density wave order with flat hot spots in two-dimensional metals” on 8th August 2024!
Congratulations and we wish you the best of luck in your future pursuits!
Photo © Lukas Debbeler
Congratulations Kirill!
Heartfelt congratulations to Kirill Alpin for defending his thesis “From Topological Nodal Planes and Multifold Crossings in 3D to Strong Correlations in 2D” on 6th August 2024.
Wishing you all the best as your embark on the next chapter of your journey!
Photo © Z.Gattin
Congratulations Zichen!
Kudos to Zichen Yang, a fellow student of the Max Planck Graduate Center for Quantum Materials, on the successful defense of his thesis “Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering Study of Kitaev Spin Liquid Candidates” on 2nd of July 2024!
We wish you all the best as your embark on the next chapter of your journey!
Photo © C.Khor
Congratulations Lena!
Congratulations to Lena Nadine Majer who has defended her thesis on “Exploring the Growth of Refractory Metal and Sapphire Films" on 17th of June 2024.
Well done Lena! We wish you all the best and much success in your future endeavours!
Photo © Lena Nadine Majer
Congratulations Shravan!
Hats off to Shravan Ravishankar Kousik who has defended his thesis on “Nanostructured Oxide Materials as Catalyst Supports for Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis under Confinement: Design, Synthesis & Characterization” on 5th of June 2024!
Congratulations and we wish you all the best in your future pursuits!
Photo © Shravan Ravishankar Kousik
Congratulations Oskar!
Cheers to Oskar Weser for successfully defending his thesis “Novel Stochastic Methods in Electronic Structure Theory” on 10th of April 2024!
We wish you continued success in all of your future projects and career!
Photo © Oskar Weser