Group members

Meet the current group members and the group's alumni

Current group members

  • Alicia Castro (postdoc)
  • Benjamin Knorr (junior group leader)
  • Daniele Berruti (master student)
  • Diego Buccio (postdoc)
  • Fabian Wagner (postdoc)
  • Fabian Willaschek (PhD student)
  • Irmeli Nix (master student)
  • Jacopo Mazza (postdoc)
  • Lidia Marino (PhD student)
  • Lutz Leimenstoll (master student)
  • Marie Sommerfeld (master student)
  • Moritz Geßner (PhD student)
  • Pedro Gamito (master student)
  • Sylvester Danso (master student)
  • Verena Köder (master student)
  • Zois Gyftopoulos (PhD student)

Past group members

PhD students

  • Aaron Held (PhD 2019, winner of a DPG thesis prize in 2021; currently junior research chair, soon CNRS permanent researcher)
  • Fleur Versteegen (PhD 2019, now at ASML)
  • Héloïse Delaporte (PhD 2024, now at University of Krakow)
  • 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, soon junior position at University of Graz)
  • Martin Pauly (PhD 2021, now at Exnaton)
  • Rafael R. Lino dos Santos (PhD 2023)

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
  • Pedro Fernandes (now at Instituto Tecnico Superior, Lisbon)
  • Raúl Carballo-Rubio (now associate professor at University of Granada)
  • Shouryya Ray (now assistant professor at University of Faroe Islands)

Master and bachelor students

  • Ademola Adeifeoba
  • Andreas O. Pedersen
  • Artiom Zaitev
  • Charlotte Schulze-Brüggemann
  • Christopher Pfeiffer
  • Fabian Homburg 
  • Gita Palizban
  • Giovanni Biondo
  • Jan Engelhardt
  • Johanna Borissova
  • Johannes Brütt
  • Johannes Lumma
  • Lara Wollert
  • Ludivine Fausten
  • Lukas Bauer
  • Marc Schiffer
  • Nawder Stokes
  • Peter Vander Griend
  • Philipp Johannsen
  • Sergio Hernan
  • Sidsel Gervig
  • Tim Eckert
  • Vanessa Hollmeier (master student)

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. 
We are happy to host applications for ERC starting grants or Emmy Noether junior group leader positions and provide mentoring to excellent candidates. Additional support for such positions comes from Heidelberg University's bridging funding.  

Please get in touch very well in advance before the relevant deadlines.

There are currently no further openings for master and/or bachelor thesis available in the group.