At Jena University, we collaborate closely with René Sondenheimer, Ulf Peschel, Fabian Steinlechner, Xuemei Gu, and many others.

External Collaborators:

• Tobias Haas (Ulm) on optical quantum simulation of quantum-field theories.
• Markus Schmitt (Regensburg) on neural quantum states.
• Annabelle Bohrdt (Munich) on machine-learning assisted methods for quantum-state certification.
• Otfried Gühne (Siegen) and Matthias Kleinmann (Münster) on entanglement detection.
• Jan Sperling and Tim Bartley (Paderborn) on methods for detecting optical non-classicality.
• Tilmann Pfau and Hans Peter Büchler (Stuttgart) on quantum computing and simulation with Rydberg atoms.
• Patrick Emonts (Ulm) on adiabatic and variational methods for ground-state search.
• Christof Weitenberg (Dortmund) on machine-learning assisted readout methods for cold-atom quantum simulators.
• Sina Saravi (Paderborn) on the preparation of non-classical states in atom-cavity hybrid systems.

Former collaborators: Matthias Weidemüller, Markus Oberthaler, Alexey Ustinov, Christoph Schnörr, and many more …

• Adrian Aasen (PhD January 2026)
• Javad Vahedi
• Maike Reckermann (Master August 2025)
• Adrian Braemer (PhD November 2024), now at TNG in Karlsruhe
• Moritz Reh (PhD April 2024), now at d-fine in Hamburg
• Sebastian Schmidt (Intern April 2023 - September 2023)
• András Czégel (Intern August 2022 - April 2023)
• Etienne Stock (Bachelor March 2023)
• Luca Benn (Bachelor March 2023)
• Mohammed Sinan (Master February 2023), now in Barcelona
• Maximilian Müllenbach (Master January 2023, co-supervision with M. Weidemüller), now PhD in Strasbourg in the group of Shannon Whitlock
• Maximilian Rieger (Bachelor September 2022), now master student in Heidelberg
• Johannes Noll (Bachelor September 2022), now master student in Heidelberg
• Oliver Stockdale, PhD student until May 2022
• Tim Rein (Bachelor March 2022), now master student at Cambridge University
• Tobias Schmale (Master October 2021), now at Hannover University
• Robert Klassert (Master September 2021)
• Sebastian Syrkowski (Master June 2021)
• Moritz Epping (Bachelor March 2021), now master student in Heidelberg
• Peter Kaposvari (Master January 2021)
• Bjarne Bergh (Master October 2020), now at Cambridge University
• Leander Haase (Bachelor September 2020), now master student in Heidelberg
• Linda Shen (PhD 2020, co-supervision with J. Berges), now at RWE
• Stefanie Czischek (PhD 2019, co-supervision with T. Gasenzer), now at University of Waterloo
• Marcel Neugebauer (Master March 2020, co-supervision with M. Weidemüller), now at SAP
• Jan Philipp Klinger (Bachelor July 2019), now master student in Heidelberg
• Michael Straub (Bachelor March 2019), now master student in Heidelberg
• Boxi Li (Bachelor July 2018), now at ETH Zürich
• Michael Rautenberg (Bachelor July 2018), now master student in Heidelberg