Current members
Jun.-Prof. Urban F. P. Seifert
Group leader
Email: urban.seifert [at] uni-koeln.de
Web: > Google Scholar, > Personal Webpage
Office: 2.01, THP, Univ. of Cologne (> Directions)
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Research interests: Frustrated magnets and quantum spin liquids, van der Waals (moiré) heterostructures, pump-probe spectroscopy and driven systems
Brief bio:
2025 - now:Junior Professor, Univ. of Cologne2024 - now:Emmy Noether group leader, Univ. of Cologne2021 - 2024:Postdoc, KITP Santa Barbara2020 - 2021:Postdoc, ENS Lyon2016 - 2019:PhD student, TU Dresden
Haoyang Tian
PhD student
Email: haoyang.tian [at] uni-koeln.de
Office: 2.10, THP, Univ. of Cologne (> Directions)
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Research interests: Moiré Heterostructures, Quantum Magnetism, Nonequilibrium Systems
Brief bio:
since 2024:PhD student, Univ. of Cologne2021 - 2024:Master’s student, FU Berlin2017 - 2021:Bachelor’s student, China University of Petroleum (East China)
Ruben Burkard
PhD student
Email: rburkard [at] thp.uni-koeln.de
Office: 2.10, THP, Univ. of Cologne (> Directions)
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Research interests: Quantum spin liquids, non-equilibrium dynamics and control
Brief bio:
since 2025:PhD Student, Univ. of Cologne2017 - 2022:B. Sc. and M. Sc. in Physics, Univ. Tübingen2023:Semester Abroad, Univ. of Oslo
Partha Sarker
Master's student
Email: psarker1 [at] uni-koeln.de
Web: > Google Scholar
Office: 2.10, THP, Univ. of Cologne (> Directions)
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Research interests: Frustrated magnetism, multipolar orders
Brief bio:
since 2023:Master's student, Univ. of Cologne2018 - 2022:B.Sc. in Physics, Univ. of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Mark Hannappel
Bachelor's student
Email: mark [at] gohpl.de
Office: 112b, THP, Univ. of Cologne (> Directions)
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Research interests: Electronic transport in spin textures
Brief bio:
since 2022:B. Sc. in Physics, Univ. of Cologne
Join us!
We have open PhD positions and also enjoy working with talented Master and Bachelor students. If you are interested, check out our > research and send an > email to Urban.