Jonathan Classen-Howes, DPhil 2024 (co-supervised w/ Paul Fendley)
Research Topics: Hilbert-space fragmentation in exactly-solvable models [Joint Publication]
Thesis: Quantum and Classical Hilbert-Space Fragmentation
Current Position: seeking jobs in finance and consulting
Minghao Li, DPhil 2024.
Research Topics: crystal symmetry and topology; fractionalized phases; tensor networks [Joint Publications]
Thesis: Three Studies on Quantum Phases of Matter.
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland.
Yves Kwan, DPhil 2022.
Research Topics: correlations in moiré heterostructures; topological phases [Joint Publications]
Thesis: Topology and Correlations in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Trajectory after Oxford: Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science (2022-25); Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Dallas (2025-).
Michele Fava, DPhil 2022.
Research Topics: quantum dynamics in low-dimensional systems [Joint Publications]
Thesis: Dynamics and Correlations in Quantum Many-Body Systems
Trajectory after Oxford: Junior Research Chair, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (2022-24); left academia for quantitative finance at Tudor Investments.
*Aaron Friedman, PhD 2019 (UC Irvine).
Research Topics: non-equilibrium dynamics and many-body localization protected orders [Joint Publications]
Trajectory: postdoctoral researcher, UT Austin (2020); CU Boulder (2020-24); NIST Associate (2024-).
Dr. Abhishodh Prakash, postdoctoral researcher, 2021-24. Current position: Reader, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India (2024-).
Dr. Alessio Lerose, Leverhulme-Peierls Fellow 2023-24. Current Position: Assistant Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium (2024-)
Dr. Yuchi He, postdoctoral researcher, 2022-24. Current position: postdoctoral researcher, Ghent University (2024-).
Dr. Carolin Wille, postdoctoral researcher, 2021-23. Current position: Postdoctoral researcher, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, Department of Mathematics, University of Cambridge (2023-).
Dr. Nick Bultinck, visiting researcher, FWO Fellow (2020-22), and Royal Society University Research Fellow (from 2022), 2020-2023. Current position: Professor, Ghent University (2023-).
Dr. Attila Szabo, Keeley-Rutherford Junior Research Fellow (2020-23). Current position: postdoctoral researcher, MPI-PKS Dresden (2023-24) and Ambizione Fellow, Universität Zürich (from 2024).
Dr. Yizhi You, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (2020-22). Current position: Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, USA (2022-).
Dr. Max McGinley, postdoctoral researcher, 2020-22. Current position: Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge and postdoctoral member of TCM group, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge (2022-26); Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, from Autumn 2026.
Dr. Sounak Biswas, postdoctoral researcher, 2019-22. Current position: postdoctoral researcher, Assaad group, University of Würzburg (2022-).
Dr. Henrik Dreyer, postdoctoral researcher, 2020-21. Current position: Managing Director, Quantinuum GmBH/Cambridge Quantum Computing (2021-).
Dr. Yichen Hu, postdoctoral researcher, 2019-21. Current position: Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University( 2023-); previously postdoctoral researcher, Lian group, Princeton (2021-).
Dr. Brayden Ware, postdoctoral researcher, 2017-18. Current position: staff scientist, Google Quantum AI (2023-); previously postdoctoral researcher, Vasseur Group, UMass Amherst, 2018-21; postdoctoral researcher, Univ. of Maryland (2021-23) ;
*Dr. SungBin Lee, postdoctoral researcher 2014-2016. Current position: Associate Professor, KAIST, Korea (2016-)
*Dr. Pramod Padmanabhan, Visiting FAPESP Fellow, 2015-2016. Current position: Assistant Professor, IIT Bhubhaneshwar, India (2021-); previously, postdoctoral Fellow, IBS, Korea (2016-21).
*Dr. Kush Saha, CAIQuE Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2016. Current position: Reader, NISER Jatni, Odisha, India (2018-).
Evan Chandran, Summer UROP student, June-August 2022. Current position: undergraduate at Princeton University, 2019-.
Patrick Wilhelm, Visiting Graduate Student, Oxford, January-May 2022. Current position: Graduate student, University of Innsbruck, Austria (Advisor: Prof. Andreas Laüchli) (2019-.)
Raphael Kozlovsky, Visiting Graduate Student, Oxford, August 2017 - February 2018. Current position: Graduate student, University of Regensburg, Germany (Advisor: Prof. Klaus Richter) (2015-)
Yves Kwan, research intern, Oxford, September -December 2017. Current position: PCTS Fellow, Princeton University (2022-).
*Kevin Ly, undergraduate student researcher. (May 2016-May 2017). Current position: Graduate student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2017-)
*indicates group alumni from UC Irvine.