i am a research associate in plenio's group at ulm university and was a research associate at the institute for mathematical sciences at imperial college london. I did my phd in the quantum optics group at the university of potsdam and studied physics at philipps university in marburg and the optical sciences center in tucson, arizona. research-wise i am mainly interested in quantum many-body systems and their fundamental equilibrium and dynamical properties.

i have worked on entanglement scaling in critical and non-critical systems,

• area laws for the entanglement entropy -- a review,
  rmp 82, 277 (2010), arxiv:0808.3773,

on dynamical properties, including relaxation after a sudden quench (lieb-robinson bounds, quantum central limit theorems),

• exploring local quantum many-body relaxation by atoms in optical superlattices,
  prl 101, 063001 (2008), arxiv:0805.0798,
• exact relaxation in a class of nonequilibrium quantum lattice systems,
  prl 100, 030602 (2008), arxiv:cond-mat/0703314,
• locality of dynamics in general harmonic quantum systems,
  in "quantum information and many body quantum systems" (edizioni della normale, pisa 2008), arxiv:0803.0890,

on ground and thermal states of ultracold atoms in optical lattices (superfluid - mott insulator transitions, adiabatic heating and cooling), in particular mixtures of fermionic and bosonic atoms,

• do mixtures of bosonic and fermionic atoms adiabatically heat up in optical lattices?
  prl 100, 140409 (2008), arxiv:0707.3633,
• inhomogeneous atomic bose-fermi mixtures in cubic lattices,
  prl 93, 190405 (2004), arxiv:cond-mat/0310705,

and became recently interested in quantum state tomography (compressed sensing, singular value thresholding),

• reconstructing quantum states efficiently,
  arXiv:1002.3780.

a complete list of my work can be found under the link publications on the top of the page.