My research is mainly concerned with the observation of quantum effects and quantum driven phenomena in condensed matter systems. The two main current areas of research are quantum transport in topological insulators, and dynamics and characterization of the many-body localized phase.
Further details of the research of the group can by found here.
2013 - present | Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany. |
2012 - 2013: | Postdoctoral Fellow at the Condensed Matter Theory Center, University of California, Berkeley. |
2009 - 2012: | Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, in the group of Prof. Joel E. Moore. |
2008 - 2009: | Postdoctoral Associate in the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University Advisor, in the group of Prof. Piet W. Brouwer. |
2008 | Ph.D. in theoretical physics, University of Leiden. Advisor: Prof. Carlo W. J. Beenakker. |
2004 | M.Sc. in physics, University of Iceland. Advisor: Prof. Vidar Gudmundsson. |
2002 | B.Sc. in physics, University of Iceland. |