URBAN SEIFERT

Hello! I am a theoretical physicist.

Contact

Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne
Zülpicher Str. 77a, 50937 Cologne, Germany

Email: ->urban.seifert@uni-koeln.de

Research group

I am leading an Emmy Noether research group at the University of Cologne.

Please visit ->our group website  for details.

Research and publications

My work is concerned with understanding new collective phenomena that arise in interacting many-body systems.

I am particularly interested in frustrated magnetism and spin liquids, quantum matter in (moiré) van der Waals heterostructures, and non-equilibrium phenomena in optically driven matter.

A list of my publications can be found on ->Google Scholar and the ->arXiv.

Teaching and outreach

I enjoy sharing my passion for physics.

In the years 2016-2019, I have taught classes on contemporary topics of theoretical physics at the ->Deutsche SchülerAkademie, a summer school for gifted high school students.

I have given several public science talks, for example in the ->Skype a Scientist program and at the ->Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Short CV

2024-nowGroup leader, University of Cologne
2021-2024Postdoc, KITP Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
2020-2021Postdoc, ENS Lyon, France
2016-2019PhD Student, TU Dresden
2015-2016MASt in Theoretical Physics (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos), Univ. of Cambridge
2013-2015B. Sc. in Physics, TU Dortmund

Funding and awards

2024Emmy Noether Grant, DFG ->more…
2024Project leader, CRC 1238, DFG ->more…
2021Walter-Benjamin-Fellowship, DFG
2021George-Helm-Medal, TU Dresden ->more…
2020Dissertation Prize Physics, TU Dresden ->more…
2016Thatcher Prize and Honorary 1912 Senior Scholar, Fitzwilliam College, Univ. of Cambridge
2015Graduate Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)