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Former members

Many people have contributed to our research, both here in Hamburg and earlier at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), where the group started.

Affiliations below were checked in Oktober 2026.
If yours is missing or out of date, please write to webmaster.quantum (@tuhh.de) and we will correct it.

Former postdocs

Dr. Markus Heinrich (HHU)
Former postdoc

Dr. Markus Heinrich (HHU)

Now Senior Researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, where he leads the Quantum Randomness group.

Dr. Christopher Cedzich (HHU)
Former postdoc

Dr. Christopher Cedzich (HHU)

Now at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, FernUniversität in Hagen, working on quantum walks and spectral theory.

Dr. Nikolai Miklin (HHU -> TUHH)
Former postdoc

Dr. Nikolai Miklin (HHU -> TUHH)

Now postdoc in the Department of Physics, Technical University of Darmstadt.

Dr. Maximilian Stahlberg (TUHH)
Former postdoc

Dr. Maximilian Stahlberg (TUHH)

Now postdoc in the Combinatorial Optimization and Logistics group at the University of Bremen, and maintainer of the PICOS optimization library.

Former PhD students

Lennart Bittel (HHU)
Former PhD student

Lennart Bittel (HHU)

Now postdoc at the Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Freie Universität Berlin (Eisert group).

Thomas Wagner (co-supervised PhD student from Dagmar Bruß' group, HHU)
Former PhD student

Thomas Wagner (co-supervised PhD student from Dagmar Bruß' group, HHU)

Now working on machine learning at Axa.

Raphael Brieger (HHU)
Former PhD student

Raphael Brieger (HHU)

Now Quantum Engineer for characterization and benchmarking at IQM, Germany.

Pascal Baßler (HHU)
Former PhD student

Pascal Baßler (HHU)

"Hamiltonian Engineering and Quantum Compilation" is archived at https://docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-77602/.

Alexander Gresch (HHU)
Former PhD student

Alexander Gresch (HHU)

Now working at eleQtron.

Mirko Arienzo
Former PhD student

Mirko Arienzo

Now Postdoctoral Researcher at Helsinki University, Particle Physics and Astrophysics

Former students

MSc students

MSc students

  • Alexander Gresch (HHU), continued as PhD student in our group
  • Sebastian Becker (HHU)
  • Haralambos Mitroglou (HHU)
  • Kai Rose (HHU)
  • Juan Henning (HHU), now a PhD student at our institute.
  • Jonathan Schluck (HHU)
  • Michel Krispin, now a PhD student at our institute.
  • Abbas Ebadi, now working as a short-term Researcher in our institute.
MSc research project students

MSc research project students

  • Abbas Ebadi, continued as MSc thesis student at our institute.
  • Sargunpreet Kaur
BSc students

BSc students

  • Dawid Al-Bazaz (HHU)
  • Sara Benjadi (HHU)
  • Henrik Bormann
  • Leon Degel-Köhn
  • Schimon Dieseler (HHU)
  • Michael Duller (HHU)
  • Jonathan Durst (HHU)
  • Calivin Fabricius
  • Paul Flach
  • Nia Galinova Genadieva
  • Per Ole Hoyer
  • Philipp Kammann (HHU)
  • Julian Lindemann
  • Marie Meynen
  • Larissa Saskia Rehm
  • Bjarne Rentz
  • Uğur Tepe (HHU)
  • Jens Watty (BSc and project student, HHU)
  • Marten Winkler
  • Thomas Friese, continuing as master student at the TUHH and research student at the institute.

Former office and administration

Kathleen Potzahr
Former office assistant

Kathleen Potzahr

Kathleen Potzahr (office assistant), ran the institute office from May 2023 until March 2025.

Kerstin Schaadt
Former office assistant

Kerstin Schaadt

Kerstin Schaadt (office assistant), ran the institute office from March 2025 until September 2026.

Former apprentices

Steven Gamaruk
Former IT apprentice

Steven Gamaruk

Steven Gamaruk, IT apprentice at the institut from August 2023 to June 2026, now at TUHH Computer Center.

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