Prof. Dr. Holger Gies

Computation

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Main research areas

Our focus is on systems of elementary-particle or many-body physics where relevant macroscopic properties are governed by microscopic fluctuations. Our goal is to determine experimentally accessible phenomena of Nature from first fundamental principles and to make quantitative predictions for properties that have remained unobserved so far. Specific research areas are:

strongly correlated quantum field theories of high-energy or many-body physics
quantum electrodynamics (QED) in strong fields
quantum field theories at the interface to gravity

Curriculum Vitae

1996 diploma, Tübingen University
1999 PhD, Tübingen University
1999 – 2000 research assistant, Tübingen University
2001 – 2003 Emmy-Noether Fellow, CERN, Geneva
2003 – 2008 Emmy-Noether junior research group leader, Heidelberg University
2005 Habilitation, Heidelberg University
2008 – 2014 Heisenberg Professorship for Quantum Field Theory, FSU Jena
since 2009 Founding member of the Helmholtz Institute Jena
since 2012 Professorship for Quantum Theory, FSU Jena
since 2019 Speaker of the DFG-Forschungsgruppe "Probing the Quantum VacuumExternal link" and Speaker of the DFG Research Training Group "Dynamics and Criticality of Quantum and Gravitational SystemsExternal link"