About Me

I'm a junior research group leader funded by an Emmy Noether Grant at the Chair of Analysis at TU Munich. Prior to moving to Munich, I worked at the Laboratory for Simulation and Modelling (LSM) at the Paul Scherrer Insitute, and did post-docs at the Insitute of Mathematics at EPFL (under Laura Grigori) and the Laboratoire Jacques Louis Lions at Sorbonne Université (under Yvon Maday). I wrote my Phd Dissertation under Benjamin Stamm at RWTH Aachen, and before that my MS thesis under Sid Mishra at ETH Zürich.

Research Interests

The main part of my research involves the numerical analysis of state-of-the-art wave-function methods that are used to solve the electronic Schrödinger equation. My post-doc at EPFL involved the analysis of the DMRG algorithm for computing the ground states of strongly correlated molecules while my post-doc at the LJLL focused on the analysis of coupled cluster methods for computing the ground states of dynamically correlated molecules.

In a joint project with Eric Cancès and some colleagues at CERMICS (Ecole des Ponts), I also work on band structure calculations of crystalline materials. Additionally, together with Jean-Philip Piquemal and my former colleagues at the Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique (Sorbonne Université), I work on hybrid quantum/classical algorithms.

During my Phd, I mostly worked on the mathematical analysis of boundary integral equations and domain decomposition methods with applications in polarisable electrostatics.

A list of my research publications including preprints can be found here.

News and Updates

 

March 2026

With Benjamin Stamm (Universität Stuttgart), I am organising the ``Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Molecular Systems" section at the 2026 GAMM Annual Meeting. The meeting will take place at the Universität Stuttgart from March 16th to 20th. Check out the conference website here!

 

November 2025

Together with Gero Friesecke (TU Munich), I am organising the 2025 Annual Meeting of the ``Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Molecular Systems" GAMM activity group. The meeting will take place at the TUM Insitute for Advanced Study on November 20th and 21st. Registrations are closed but you're welcome to sneak in to any of the talks that pique your interest! More information is available here.

 

October 2025

I have an open Phd position! If you have a solid background in numerical analysis or analysis of PDEs and are interested in computational quantum mechanics, please take a look at the announcement!

 

October 2025

I'm very happy to have Alfred Kirsch join me as a post-doctoral researcher! Alfred has worked on the mathematical analysis of embedding methods such as Density Matrix Embedding Theory (DMET) and Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) for interacting quantum systems. Here at TUM, Alfred and I will collaborate on electronic structure for crystalline materials.

 

January 2025

I've had the good fortune to win an Emmy Noether grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The grant has been awarded in support of a project I proposed titled "Numerical Analysis of Electronic Structure Methods for Molecules and Materials". The project abstract can be found on the DFG webpage here.

 

May 2024

I was a lecturer at the 6th edition of the GDR NBODY Mini-school on mathematics for theoretical chemistry and physics. The school took place from the 28th to 31st of May 2024 at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions at Sorbonne Université Paris. More information can be found here.

 

March 2024

I had the pleasure of hosting a workshop on electronic structure theory for solids in March 2024. More information can be found here.