Team
Group members
The research group consists of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral students, as well as postdoctoral researchers at the Institute for Quantum Gravity who work with us on research projects.
Team
Kristina Giesel
Research group Leader
Canonical Quantum Gravity, Physical (Quantum) Reference Frames, Quantum Cosmology and Quantum Gravitational Collapse, Gravitational Decoherence and applications in astroparticle physics
Renata Ferrero
Postdoctoral ReSearcher
Quantum Gravity, Asymptotic Safety, Relational formalism, Canonical Quantisation, Gravitational Decoherence
Michael Kobler
Doctoral StudeNt
Gravitationally induced decoherence and open quantum systems in polymere quantum mechanics
Roman Kemper
Doctoral StudeNt
Gravitationally induced decoherence in neutrino oscillations, reference frames in open quantum systems.
Eric Rullit
DOCTORAL StudeNt
Quantum Gravitational Collapse in Canonical Quantum Gravity
Paul Hartung
MASTER StudeNt
Decoherence Models in the Context of Cosmological Perturbations and time-dependent Hamiltonians.
Kai Langer
Bachelor Student
Investigating the CMB Power Spectrum in the Context of Loop Quantum Cosmology
Stefan Weigl
Doctoral StudeNt
Effective LTB models, regular black black holes and their relation to extended mimetic gravity models
Ashay Sathe
Doctoral StudeNt
Quantum reference frames in open quantum systems and applications to open systems including gravity.
Alexander Kulyabin
Master StudeNt
Quantum Cosmological Models and Decoherence in these Models
Niklas Rodenbücher
Master StudeNt
Investigating the CMB Power Spectrum in the Context of Loop Quantum Cosmology
Current and recent Visitors
Giulia Maniccia
Postdoctoral Researcher (01.03.-31.12.2024)
Sapienza Università di Roma
Michał Bobula
PhD student (01.05. – 31.05.2025)
University of Wrocław
Matteo Bruno
PhD student (01.04. – 30.06.2025)
Sapienza Università di Roma
Current Collaborators
- Alba Domi, Thomas Eberl and Claudio Kopper, FAU, ECAP, experimental neutrino physics, Germany.
- Oliver Friedrich and Varun Kushwaha, Universitätssternwarte LMU, München, Germany.
- Lavinia Heisenberg and Jingqian Gou, Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Germany,
- Viktoria Kabel Quantum Information Theory Group, ETH Zürich, and Wolfgang Wieland IQG, FAU.
- Guillermo Mena-Marugan and Almudena Guillen Sanchez, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (IEM), CSIC, Madrid.
- Hongguang Liu, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China.
- Parampreet Singh, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, US, joint DFG-NSF grant: investigations on physical implications of canonical quantum gravity.
Former members
- Hongguang Liu, IQG postdoctoral researcher, 2020-2024. Now Assistant Professor at Westlake University, Hangzhou, China.
- Alexander Seifert, bachelor student 2024.
- Max Joseph Fahn, master student 2020 and PhD student until 2024. Now postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bologna, Italy.
- Tobias Iding, bachelor student 2024.
- David Winnekens, master student 2014 and PhD student until 2023.
- Marvin Banarescu, bachelor student 2022.
- Kevin Haas, bachelor student 2022.
- Almut Vetter (geb. Oelmann), PhD student until 2021.
- Laura Herold, master student 2019. Now postdoctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US.
- Ernst-Albrecht Zwicknagel, bachelor student 2018.
- Bystrik Matas, bachelor student 2018.
- Andreas Leitherer, master student 2017. Now postdoctoral researcher at the ICFO, Barcelona, Spain.
- Julius Gohrich, bachelor student 2017.
- Adrian Herzog, bachelor student 2014 and master student 2017.
- Benedikt Böhm, master student 2015.
- Nils Alex, master student 2015.
- Carolin Zöblein, bachelor student 2013.
- Thorsten Reichert, master student 2013.
- Thomas Zilker, master student in 2013.