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For the fall of 2026 our group has an opening for a postdoctoral position, based at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Interested candidates can read more ánd apply at AcademicJobsOnline: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31696The deadline is Tuesday 17 March, but exceptional candidates...

On Thursday 23 January, our group member Dario Rossi successfully defended his PhD thesis "Quantum Magnetism in Synthetic Systems". Dario was jointly supervised by Louk Rademaker and Dima Abanin from Princeton. His work spans two major experimental platforms — moiré materials and quantum...

Vincent Lombardo, who wrote his Master thesis "Single-particle spectral function of a fractionalChern insulator using exact diagonalization" in our group, has received the Prix Jean Würth for best Master thesis of the Physics Section. During the Ceremony to honor the graduates of 2025 he received ...

I received an SNSF Starting Grant for the project « Quantum Matter with a Twist – The Interplay of Correlations and Topology in Moiré Materials ». This means I will be an SNSF Professor at the Department of Quantum Matter Physics starting in 2023. Needless to say, I'm very excited about ...

Furthermore, there has been some press coverage of the defense.

Today my supervisor Hans Hilgenkamp got appointed as professor in Experimental Physics at Leiden University. In the corresponding press release (in Dutch) I'm mentioned in the third paragraph, as I'm his only PhD-student in Leiden. The press release describes briefly the main focus of our...

In september 2008 I received my Masters degree in Theoretical Physics cum laude, with the research I did under supervision of Koenraad Schalm at the Leiden University. My Masters thesis was titled "Phase Transitions in Matrix Models" and can be downloaded here (pdf, 716 kB). The summary of the...