Corinna Kollath

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Corinna Susan Kollath (born 21 April 1976) is a Scottish-born German theoretical and computational physicist whose research involves ultracold gases, the many-body problem, and out-of-equilibrium low dimensional correlated systems in quantum mechanics. She is a professor at the University of Bonn [1]

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Education and career

Kollath was born on 21 April 1976 in Stirling. [1] [2] She studied physics at the University of Cologne, [3] with a year at the University of Glasgow where she earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1998, with first-class honours. [4] Returning to Cologne, she completed a diploma in 2001 under the supervision of Martin Zirnbauer. Next, she did doctoral research at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with Jan von Delft  [ de ] and Ulrich Schollwöck  [ de ], but completed her doctorate at RWTH Aachen University in 2005. [3]

She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva and the École polytechnique in France, [1] in 2008 continuing at the École polytechnique as a researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She took an associate professorship at the University of Geneva in 2011 [3] and in 2013 moved to her present position as a full professor of theoretical quantum physics at the University of Bonn. [1]

Recognition

Kollath was the 2009 winner of the Hertha Sponer Prize  [ de ] of the German Physical Society for her research on ultracold gases. [5] In 2010 the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities gave her their physics prize. [6]

In 2020 she was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, "for studies of low dimensional correlated systems, in particular out of equilibrium, using a combination of analytic and novel numerical approaches". [1] [7]

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  2. ↑ Millionenförderung für Forscher der Uni Bonn: Prof. Dr. Corinna Kollath und Prof. Dr. Veit Hornung erhalten ERC Consolidator Grants, University of Bonn, 1 April 2015, retrieved 2022-11-07
  3. 1 2 3 "Prof. Corinna Kollath", Staff profile and short cv, University of Bonn, retrieved 2022-11-07
  4. ↑ "Glasgow University", The Herald (Glasgow) , 14 July 1998, retrieved 2022-11-07
  5. ↑ "Preisträgerinnen" [Prize winners], Hertha-Sponer-Preis, German Physical Society, retrieved 2022-11-07
  6. ↑ Kollath, Corinna (2011), "Dynamik in ultrakalten Atomgasen (Physik-Preis-Preisträgerin des Berichtsjahres 2010)", Jahrbuch der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2010 (in German), Walter de Gruyter GmbH, pp. 218–223, doi:10.26015/adwdocs-405, hdl:11858/00-001S-0000-0023-99EA-E, ISBN   978-3-11-023676-7
  7. ↑ "Fellows nominated in 2020 by the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2022-11-07
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