Team

Who we are and how to contact us.

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)

Details

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 Cologne

  • 2024 - now: Emmy Noether group leader, Univ. of Cologne

  • 2021 - 2024: Postdoc, KITP Santa Barbara

  • 2020 - 2021: Postdoc, ENS Lyon

  • 2016 - 2019: PhD student, TU Dresden

Haoyang Tian

PhD student

Email: haoyang.tian [at] uni-koeln.de

Office: 2.10, THP, Univ. of Cologne (> Directions)

Details

Research interests: Moiré Heterostructures, Quantum Magnetism, Nonequilibrium Systems

Brief bio:

  • since 2024: PhD student, Univ. of Cologne

  • 2021 - 2024: Master’s student, FU Berlin

  • 2017 - 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)

Details

Research interests: Quantum spin liquids, non-equilibrium dynamics and control

Brief bio:

  • since 2025: PhD Student, Univ. of Cologne

  • 2017 - 2025: B. Sc. and M. Sc. in Physics, Univ. Tübingen

  • 2023: Semester Abroad, Univ. of Oslo

Partha Sarker

PhD student

Email: psarker1 [at] uni-koeln.de

Web: > Google Scholar

Office: 2.10, THP, Univ. of Cologne (> Directions)

Details

Research interests: Frustrated magnetism, multipolar orders

Brief bio:

  • since 2025: PhD student, Univ. of Cologne

  • 2023-2025: M.Sc. in physics, Univ. of Cologne

  • 2018 - 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)

Details

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.