Dr Dirk Schuricht - Physikzentrum der RWTH Aachen - RWTH ...

Dr Dirk Schuricht
Date of birth 28 November 1978
Place of birth Zeulenroda, Germany
Nationality german
Marital status married, three children
Languages
German, English
Address
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University
Minnaertgebouw, Leuvenlaan 4
3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands
Postal address Postbus 80.195, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands
Telephone +31 (0)30 253 2805
Fax +31 (0)30 253 5937
Email
d.schuricht@uu.nl
Scientific Career
10/2013 Universitair docent (Assistant Professor)
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
11/2010–9/2013 Emmy-Noether junior group leader
Institute for Theory of Statistical Physics
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
10/2008–10/2010 Research assistant (post doc)
Institute for Theoretical Physics A
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
10/2006–9/2008 Leopoldina Research Fellow (post doc)
The Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics
University of Oxford, United Kindom
5/2006–9/2006 Research assistant (post doc)
Center for Functional Nanostructures Karlsruhe, Germany
1/2006 Dr. rer. nat. (equivalent to PhD) in Physics
University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Supervisors: Dr Martin Greiter, Prof Peter Wölfle
Thesis title: Fractional quantization and Yangian
symmetry in SU(n) spin chains
5/2003–4/2006 PhD-Fellow of the German Research Foundation (GK 284)
Institute for Condensed Matter Theory
University of Karlsruhe, Germany
3/2003 Diploma (comparable to MS) in Physics
University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Supervisors: Dr Martin Greiter, Prof Peter Wölfle
Thesis title: The Haldane–Shastry model, its Yangian,
and the dynamical spin correlations
10/1998–3/2003 Study of Physics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Research interests
Strongly correlated electron systems
Low-dimensional magnetic and electronic systems
Transport through quantum dots and nanostructures
Relaxation processes in quantum dots
Time evolution and quenches in strongly correlated systems
Field theory and renormalisation group methods
External funding
1/2013–12/2013 RWTH-Seed Fund (with Fabian Hassler)
3/2012 Grant of the ESF-Program “Quantum Spin Coherence
and Electronics” to co-fund the workshop “Spin-orbit and
interaction effects in nano-electronics” (with Sabine
Andergassen, Fabian Hassler and Maarten Wegewijs)
since 11/2010 Emmy-Noether-Fellowship of the German Research
Foundation (DFG)
10/2006–9/2008 Research Scholarship of the German Academy of Sciences
Leopoldina
Teaching experience
10/2012–3/2013 Lecture ”Special relativity”
10/2011–3/2012 Lecture ”Low-dimensional magnetic and electronic systems”
4/2011–9/2011 Problem sets in Classical Mechanics
10/2009–3/2010 Problem sets in Statistical Mechanics
4/2009–9/2009 Problem sets in Classical Mechanics
10/2008–3/2009 Problem sets in Introduction to Theoretical Physics
Supervision of students seminar on low-dimensional
quantum systems
11/2007–12/2007 Tutorial in Condensed Matter Theory
4/2006–9/2006 Problem sets in Mathematical Foundations of Physics
10/2005–3/2006 Tutorial in Classical Electrodynamics
4/2004–9/2005 Problem sets in Condensed Matter Theory
10/2003–3/2004 Tutorial in Classical Electrodynamics
4/2002–9/2003 Tutorial in Classical Mechanics
4/2000–3/2002 Tutorial in Analysis and Linear Algebra

(Co-)Supervised scientific theses
Bachelor’s theses
5/2013–8/2013 Nicholas Ohs, Time evolution in the Tomonaga-Luttinger model
after a linear quantum quench, Bachelor Physics, RWTH Aachen
University
5/2011–8/2011 Anne Cornelie Koop, Untersuchung der Anregungslücke in
S=1 Spinketten, Bachelor Physics, RWTH Aachen University
Master’s and diploma theses
10/2012–9/2013 Niklas M Gergs, Non-equilibrium thermotransport through an
Anderson quantum dot: Second order perturbation theory in the
tunnel coupling, Master Physics, RWTH Aachen University
(with Maarten Wegewijs)
9/2010–6/2011 Stefan Göttel, Funktionale Renormierungsgruppe für Spinketten,
Master Physics, RWTH Aachen University (with Sabine
Andergassen)
2/2010–1/2011 Christoph B M Hörig, Renormalization-group analysis of a
spin-1 Kondo dot out of equilibrium, Diploma Physics,
RWTH Aachen University (with Sabine Andergassen)
5/2009–4/2010 Sarah Y Müller, Nichtgleichgewichtstransport durch einen
Quantenpunkt mit zwei Energieniveaus: eine Renormierungsgruppenanalyse,
Diploma Physics, RWTH Aachen University
(with Sabine Andergassen)
PhD theses
since 10/2013
since 12/2012
since 4/2011
since 5/2010
Niklas M Gergs, Utrecht University
Jasha Ulrich, RWTH Aachen University (with Fabian Hassler)
Christoph B M Hörig, RWTH Aachen University and Utrecht
University
Sarah Y Müller, RWTH Aachen University and Vienna
University (with Sabine Andergassen)

Other professional activities
since 4/2013 Referee for the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the
Baden-Württemberg Foundation
3/2012–3/2013 Co-Organiser of the workshop “Spin-orbit and interaction
effects in nano-electronics” (with Sabine Andergassen, Fabian
Hassler and Maarten Wegewijs)
4/2009–6/2011 Member of several search committees at the RWTH Aachen
University
since 6/2008 Referee for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B,
Physical Review E, Journal of Mathematical Physics,
European Physical Journal B, Physica E, and Journal
of Statistical Mechanics
4/2007–9/2007 Local Organiser of the INSTANS summer school in Oxford
Miscellaneous
21/11/2011 Training: Organisation of lecture courses
3/11/2011 Training: Conflict management
1/6/2011 Training: Rhetoric
17/6/2010 Training: Time- and Selfmanagement
10/2007–9/2008 Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College Oxford, United Kingdom
6-7/4/2004 Training: Scientific knowledge—intelligible to layman
8/1997–8/1998 Alternative Civilian Service