Michael Knap
Education and Academic Career
2021 - present | Associate Professor at Technical University of Munich, Germany. |
2015 - 2021 | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at Technical University of Munich, Germany. |
2012 - 2015 | Postdoctoral Fellow at the Condensed Matter Theory Group, Harvard University, USA, collaborations with Prof. Eugene Demler, Prof. Bertrand I. Halperin, Prof. Mikhail D. Lukin. |
2011 - 2012 | Research stay in the group of Prof. Eugene Demler, Condensed Matter Theory, Harvard University, USA. |
2009 - 2012 | Ph.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 - 2009 | Master'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 - 2007 | Bachelor's Studies: Technical Physics at Graz University of Technology, Austria Bachelor's thesis: Jackknife and Bootstrap. |
Awards and Honors
2024 | ERC Consolidator Grant |
2019 | Hans and Walter Thirring award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
2019 | ERC Starting Grant |
2019 | Teaching Award from the TUM Physics Department |
2018 | Supervisory Award from the TUM Physics Department |
2015 | Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Assistant Professorship |
2013 | Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP), Harvard University |
2013 | Promotion sub auspiciis Praesidentis |