Research Group
Interested in a thesis? We are very happy to offer bachelor, master, and PhD thesis projects at the boundaries of modern machine learning and particle theory.
Just send me an email and join us for lunch or coffee. We require is a reasonable set of lectures, motivation to do cutting-edge research, and excitement for physics. Standard lectures include Particle Physics 1+2, Quantum Field Theory I+II, Machine Learning and Physics, plus some of our cool advanced lectures and seminars here in Heidelberg.
If you are an experimentalist or an ML-expert and you would like to switch to ML-theory, we will make this possible. As you will see, particle physics and AI is worth switching to!
Group Leaders
- Tilman Plehn
- Anja Butter [2019-] (permanent staff Paris, group in Heidelberg)
Postdocs
- Henning Bahl [2023-] (Humboldt fellow)
- Ranit Das [2025-] (Humboldt fellow)
- Ayodele Ore [2023-]
PhD Students
- Giovanni De Crescenzo [2023-]
- Suprio Dubey [2025-] (jointly with Anja Butter and Jürgen Hesser)
- Florian Ernst [2023-] (jointly with Michael Dührssen-Debling)
- Antoine Petitjean [2024-]
- Rebecca Revelli [2025-]
- Daniel Schiller [2024-]
- Nikita Schmal [2023-]
- Sophia Vent [2025-]
- Javier Villadamigo [2023-] (with Anja Butter)
- Lorenz Vogel [2025-]
Master Students
- Susie Kim [2025-]
- Raship Plaha [2025-]
- Thanush Sivagnanalingam [2025-]
Bachelor Students
- Paula Schuchard [2024-]
Former Heidelberg Group Members, now faculty or staff
- Martin Bauer [ITP fellow, 2014-2018, faculty Durham]
- Anke Biekötter [PhD 2019, junior professor and TT-Helmholtz group leader, KIT]
- Ilaria Brivio [ITP fellow, 2019-2022, faculty Bologna]
- Anja Butter [bachelor 2012, master 2013-2014, PhD 2014-2017, ITP & staff Paris]
- Barry Dillon [Humboldt fellow, postdoc 2020-2023, faculty Ulster University]
- Christoph Englert [postdoc 2010-2011, faculty Manchester]
- Claudius Krause [ITP fellow 2022-2024, staff OAW Vienna]
- Kentarou Mawatari [postdoc 2008-2010, faculty Iwate]
- Tanmoy Modak [postdoc, Humboldt fellow, 2020-2023, faculty IISER Behrampur]
- Dorival Goncalves Netto [PhD 2009-2012, faculty Oklahoma State]
- Steffen Schumann [postdoc 2008-2011, faculty Göttingen]
- Michihisa Takeuchi [postdoc 2009-2012, faculty Zhuhai]
- Susanne Westhoff [Carl Zeiss junior professor 2015-2022, faculty Nijmegen]
- Ramon Winterhalder [PhD 2020, TT-faculty Milano]
Former Heidelberg Group Members
- Jona Ackerschott [master 2023, PhD student ATLAS Geneva]
- Mathias Backes [bachelor 2020, master student ATLAS Heidelberg]
- Marco Bellagente [PhD 2022 with Jan Pawlowski]
- Benjamin Bentner [master 2025] (with Jürgen Hesser)
- Cathy Bernaciak [postdoc 2011-2014, big data]
- Elias Bernreuther [master 2018, PhD Aachen, postdoc]
- Sebastian Bieringer [master 2020, PhD student Hamburg]
- Lukas Blecher [bachelor 2020]
- Sebastian Bock [diploma 2010, PhD ultracold atoms]
- Katja Böhnke [PhD student 2016-2017] (with Susanne Westhoff)
- Victor Breso [postdoc 2023-2025, Harvard] (with Anja Butter)
- Johann Brehmer [master 2014, PhD 2017, postdoc NYU, Qualcomm AI]
- Sebastian Bruggisser [postdoc 2018-2022, physics education software]
- Malte Buschmann [bachelor 2012, master 2014, PhD Mainz, postdoc]
- Thorsten Buss [master 2010, PhD student Hamburg]
- Nishita Desai [Humboldt fellow, postdoc 2013-2016, staff Tata Institute, UBS]
- Sascha Diefenbacher [bachelor 2017, master 2019, PhD Hamburg, postdoc Berkeley]
- Nathanael Ediger [bachelor 2023]
- Nina Elmer [master 2022, PhD 2025, postdoc Cambridge]
- Florian Ernst [master 2023, PhD student CERN]
- Luigi Favaro [PhD 2024, Postdoc Delphes]
- Friedrich Feiden [bachelor 2021]
- Anastasia Filimonova [PhD 2020] (with Susanne Westhoff)
- Karin Firnkes [bachelor 2011, master 2014, SAP]
- Patrick Foldenauer [PhD 2019, postdoc]
- Juan Gonzalez-Fraile [postdoc 2014-2017, big data]
- Emma Geoffray [PhD 2023, academic consulting]
- Erik Gerwick [PhD Edinburgh 2011, postdoc Göttingen, automotive data consulting]
- Josua Göcking [bachelor 2015, master 2017, e.solutions]
- Fabian Gross [diploma 2011]
- Theo Heimel [bachelor 2018, master 2020, PhD 2024]
- Jamil Hetzel [PhD 2015, SAP]
- Andreas Hölzl [bachelor 2024]
- Jan Horak [bachelor 2017, PhD Heidelberg]
- Sander Hummerich [bachelor 2021]
- Nathan Hütsch [PhD 2025] (with Anja Butter)
- Martin Jankowiak [postdoc 2012-2014, CUSP New York University]
- Fabian Keilbach [bachelor 2017, master 2020]
- Nicolas Kiefer [bachelor 2018]
- Jennifer Kieselmann [bachelor 2012, master London]
- Fabrizio Klassen [bachelor 2022]
- Martin Klassen [master 2017 with Martin Bauer, PhD ATLAS Heidelberg]
- Felix Kling [master 2012, PhD Arizona, postdoc DESY]
- Joran Köhler [bachelor 2022]
- Tobias Krebs [bachelor 2021]
- Noah Kriesch [bachelor 2023]
- Rabea Link [bachelor 2016]
- David Lopez-Val [postdoc 2010-2013, physics teacher]
- Thomas Lübbert [diploma 2010, PhD Zurich, postdoc Hamburg]
- Christopher Lüken-Winkels [bachelor 2020]
- Michel Luchmann [master 2019, PhD 2023, data science]
- Maeve Madigan [Humboldt fellow 2023-2024, data science industry]
- Georg Manten [bachelor 2015]
- Luminita Mihaila [Heisenberg fellow 2015-2018, quantum computing research]
- Charlotte Neitzel [bachelor 2017]
- Rhea Moutafis (now Ari Joury) [bachelor 2017, master (Orsay) 2019, PhD Paris]
- Pit Neitemeier [master 2024] (at Aleph Alpha)
- Aaron Nordmann [bachelor 2024]
- Bob McElrath [postdoc 2010-2011]
- Hans Olischläger [bachelor 2021]
- Tobias Ostermann [bachelor 2012]
- Sofia Palacios Schweitzer [PhD 2025, postdoc Rutgers] (with Anja Butter)
- Simon Pijahn [bachelor 2022]
- Sebastian Pitz [bachelor 2021, master 2025, PhD student Paris]
- Peter Reimitz [bachelor 2015, master 2017, PhD 2020, postdoc Sao Paulo]
- Lennart Röver [master 2021]
- Armand Rousselot [bachelor 2020, master student computer science]
- Jan Rüschkamp [bachelor 2023]
- Michael Russell [postdoc 2017-2018, big data]
- Torben Schell [master 2013, PhD 2016, Daimler]
- Peter Schichtel [diploma 2011, PhD 2014, big data]
- Nikita Schmal [master 2023, PhD student]
- Benedikt Schosser [master 2023, PhD student cosmology]
- Linda Shen [bachelor 2015, PhD Heidelberg]
- Peter Sorrenson [PhD (with Ullrich Köthe) 2025]
- Natalie Soybelman [master 2021, PhD student Weizmann]
- Jonas Spinner [PhD 2025, postdoc Durham]
- Jamie Tattersall [postdoc 2013-2015, junior professor Aachen, self-driving cars]
- Valentin Tenorth [master 2017, PhD MPI-K]
- Jennifer Thompson [postdoc 2016-2019, Bosch]
- Philip Velie [Fulbright fellow 2023-2024]
- Sophia Vent [bachelor 2021, master 2025]
- Lorenz Vogel [bachelor 2021]
- Daniel Wiegand [master 2013, PhD Pittsburgh, postdoc Argonne]
- Ioan Wigmore [PhD Edinburgh 2013, Petroleum GeoServices]
- Nikolai Zerf [postdoc 2015-2017, postdoc Berlin]
Junior Collaborators from the Old Days
- Michael Spannowsky [PhD student in Munich days, faculty Durham]
- Alexandre Alves [PhD student in Madison/Sao Paulo days, faculty Sao Paulo]
