Team

Group members

The research group consists of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral students, as well as postdoctoral researchers at the Institute for Quantum Gravity who work with us on research projects.

Kristina Giesel

Research group Leader

Canonical Quantum Gravity, Physical (Quantum) Reference Frames, Quantum Cosmology and Quantum Gravitational Collapse, Gravitational Decoherence and applications in astroparticle physics

Postdoctoral ReSearcher

Quantum Gravity, Asymptotic Safety, Relational formalism, Canonical Quantisation, Gravitational Decoherence

Michael Kobler

Doctoral StudeNt

Gravitationally induced decoherence and open quantum systems in polymere quantum mechanics

Roman Kemper

Doctoral StudeNt

Gravitationally induced decoherence in the context of neutrino oscillations, reference frames in open quantum systems.

Eric Rullit

DOCTORAL StudeNt

Quantum Gravitational Collapse in Canonical Quantum Gravity

Paul Hartung

MASTSER StudeNt

Decoherence models in the context of cosmological perturbations

Kai Langer

Bachelor Student

Investigating the CMB power spectrum in the context of loop quantum cosmology

Stefan Weigl

Doctoral StudeNt

Gravitationally induced decoherence and open quantum systems in polymere quantum mechanics

Ashay Sathe

Doctoral StudeNt

Classical and quantum reference frames in open quantum systems with constraints and applications to open systems including gravity.

Alexander Kulyabin

Master StudeNt

Quantum Cosmological Models and Decoherence in these models

Niklas Rodenbücher

Master StudeNt

Investigating the CMB power spectrum in the context of loop quantum cosmology

Current and recent Visitors

Matteo Bruno

PhD student (01.04. – 30.06.2025)

Sapienza Università di Roma

Giulia Maniccia

Postdoctoral Researcher (01.03.-31.12.2024)

Sapienza Università di Roma

Current Collaborators

Former members

  • Hongguang Liu, IQG postdoctoral researcher, 2020-2024. Now Assistant Professor at Westlake University, Hangzhou, China.
  • Alexander Seifert, bachelor student 2024.
  • Max Joseph Fahn, master student 2020 and PhD student until 2024. Now postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bologna, Italy.
  • Tobias Iding, bachelor student 2024.
  • David Winnekens, master student 2014 and PhD student until 2023.
  • Marvin Banarescu, bachelor student 2022.
  • Kevin Haas, bachelor student 2022.
  • Almut Vetter (geb. Oelmann), PhD student until 2021.
  • Laura Herold, master student 2019. Now postdoctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US.
  • Ernst-Albrecht Zwicknagel, bachelor student 2018.
  • Bystrik Matas, bachelor student 2018.
  • Andreas Leitherer, master student 2017. Now postdoctoral researcher at the ICFO, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Julius Gohrich, bachelor student 2017.
  • Adrian Herzog, bachelor student 2014 and master student 2017.
  • Benedikt Böhm, master student 2015.
  • Nils Alex, master student 2015.
  • Carolin Zöblein, bachelor student 2013.
  • Thorsten Reichert, master student 2013.
  • Thomas Zilker, master student in 2013.