Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Frank Pollmann
My research interests are in theoretical condensed matter physics and in particular in systems with strongly correlated electrons
Academic Appointments
| Since 2022 - | Full Professor (W3) Physics Department, Technical University Munich |
| 2017 – 2022 | Associate Professor (W3) Physics Department, Technical University Munich |
| 2011 – 2016 | Research Group Leader (W2) Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden |
| 2010 | Visiting Scholar Academia Sinica, Taipei |
| 2008 – 2010 | Postdoc Group of Prof. J. E. Moore at the University of California, Berkeley |
| 2006 – 2007 | Postdoc Group of Prof. P. Fulde at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden |
Education
| May 2004 – Oct. 2006 | Dr. rer. nat. Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden / Technical University Ilmenau, final grade: summa cum laude. Thesis advisors: Prof. P. Fulde and Prof. E. Runge Title of the thesis:“Charge degrees of freedom on frustrated lattices” |
| Oct. 1998 – Mar. 2004 | Diploma in Physics Technical University Braunschweig / Royal Institute of Technology / Stockholms Universitet, final grade: very good. Thesis advisor: Prof. G. Zwicknagl Title of the thesis: “Partial localization in strongly correlated 5f orbitals” |
Awards
| 2026 | Leibniz Prize |
| 2017 | ERC Consolidator Grant |
| 2015 | Walter Schottky Prize |
| 2007 | Otto-Hahn Medal |