I'm a third-year PhD student at LMU Munich (Germany) working on fractional Chern insulators, which are lattice analogs of fractional quantum Hall states.

In my research, I mainly use DMRG simulations and analytical tools. I'm especially interested in possible realizations of FCIs in cold atom experiments and aim to provide those experiments with the necessary theory background.

My broader research interests are:

• strongly correlated many-body states
• exotic states of matter and topological order
• ultracold quantum gases
• quantum field theory
• differential geometry and topology, especially its applications to condensed matter physics

I did my Master thesis on quantum phase transitions of spin liquid states using analytical QFT methods. I've got a Bachelor degree in physics from LMU Munich (title of my thesis: 'Aspects of Spacetime Geometry in Bosonic String Theory') and in mathematics from the University of Göttingen (Germany) (title of my thesis: 'Geometry of Orbifolds - Euler Characteristic and Gauss-Bonnet Theorem').