Research

One of the major changes in our understanding of the physical world has been the introduction of quantum mechanics. Since my bachelor studies, I have been fascinated by the quantum description of electrons and have focused on wavefunction-based methods for the study of molecular systems.

During my master thesis, carried out under the supervision of Prof. Henrik Koch, I explored the emerging field of quantum electrodynamics (QED) in optical cavities. In particular, I investigated how the interaction between circularly polarized light and chiral molecules can provide signatures for enantiomer discrimination.

For my PhD, I joined the groups of Prof. Jürgen Gauß and Prof. Stella Stopkowicz at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, where I developed new approaches for the description of molecular wavefunctions within the framework of Unitary Coupled-Cluster theory. These methods were applied to the calculation of molecular energies, properties, and spectra in the presence of external magnetic fields.

In order to further strengthen my mathematical background, I moved to CERMICS at École des Ponts for a postdoctoral position with Prof. Eric Cancès. My current research focuses on the description of excited states within variational theories. In particular, we exploit concepts from differential geometry to derive a systematic framework for excitation energies based on the structure of Kähler manifolds.

In the future, I aim to extend these geometric approaches beyond variational methods, with a particular interest in their application to non-variational theories such as Coupled-Cluster methods.