Group members

Meet the current group members and the group's alumni

Current group members

  • Andreas O. Pedersen (master student)
  • Benjamin Knorr (senior postdoc)
  • Daniele Berruti (master student)
  • Fabian Homburg (bachelor student)
  • Fabian Wagner (postdoc)
  • Fabian Willaschek (master student)
  • Lidia Marino (master student)
  • Lukas Bauer (master student)
  • Moritz Gessner (master student)
  • Pedro Fernandes (postdoc)
  • Tim Eckert (master student)
  • Vanessa Hollmeier (master student)
  • Zois Gyftopoulos (PhD student)

Past group members

PhD students

  • Aaron Held (PhD 2019, winner of a DPG thesis prize in 2021; now junior research chair at ENS Paris)
  • Fleur Versteegen (PhD 2019, now at ASML)
  • Héloïse Delaporte (PhD 2024)
  • Johannes Lumma (PhD 2020, now at Alan-Turing institute)
  • Marc Schiffer (PhD 2021, winner of the 2025 Bergmann-Wheeler thesis prize of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation
    now postdoc at Radboud University Nijmegen)
  • Martin Pauly (PhD 2021, now at Exnaton)
  • Rafael R. Lino dos Santos (PhD 2023, now at Warsaw University)

Postdocs

  • Alessia Platania (now group leader at NBI)
  • Andreas Pithis (now postdoc at University of Jena)
  • Antonio Pereira (now assistant professor at Fluminense Federal University Brazil)
  • Gustavo P. de Brito (now assistant professor at Sao Paolo State University)
  • Nicolai Christiansen
  • Raúl Carballo-Rubio (soon associate professor at University of Granada)
  • Shouryya Ray (now assistant professor at University of Faroe Islands)

Master and bachelor students

  • Ademola Adeifeoba
  • Artiom Zaitev
  • Christopher Pfeiffer
  • Giovanni Biondo
  • Jan Engelhardt
  • Johanna Borissova
  • Johannes Lumma
  • Ludivine Fausten
  • Marc Schiffer
  • Peter Vander Griend
  • Philipp Johannsen
  • Sergio Hernan
  • Sidsel Gervig

Would you like to join us?

Open PhD and postdoc positions will be announced here.
If you would like to join the group with your own research funding, we welcome and support applications for PhD scholarships with the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and postdoc applications with DFG, DAAD, Humboldt foundation, Marie-Skłodowska-Curie actions and other research funders. 
Please get in touch very well in advance before the relevant deadlines.

If you would like to write your bachelor or master thesis as a member of our group, please get in touch with Astrid Eichhorn.