Michael Knap

Michael Knap

Education and Academic Career

2021 - presentAssociate Professor at Technical University of Munich, Germany.
2015 - 2021Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at Technical University of Munich, Germany.
2012 - 2015Postdoctoral Fellow at the Condensed Matter Theory Group, Harvard University, USA,
collaborations with Prof. Eugene Demler, Prof. Bertrand I. Halperin, Prof. Mikhail D. Lukin.
2011 - 2012Research stay in the group of Prof. Eugene Demler, Condensed Matter Theory, Harvard University, USA.
2009 - 2012Ph.D., Graz University of Technology, Austria, supervisor Prof. Wolfgang von der Linden
Doctoral thesis: Collective Modes and Dynamics in Strongly Correlated Many-Body Systems: a Variational Cluster Approach.
2007 - 2009Master's Studies: Technical Physics at Graz University of Technology, Austria
Master's thesis: Quantum many body properties of strongly correlated lattice bosons and polaritons.
2004 - 2007Bachelor's Studies: Technical Physics at Graz University of Technology, Austria
Bachelor's thesis: Jackknife and Bootstrap.

Awards and Honors

2024ERC Consolidator Grant
2019Hans and Walter Thirring award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2019ERC Starting Grant
2019Teaching Award from the TUM Physics Department
2018Supervisory Award from the TUM Physics Department
2015Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Assistant Professorship
2013Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP), Harvard University
2013Promotion sub auspiciis Praesidentis

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