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Many-body Quantum Dynamics

Cavendish Laboratory
 

Group leader

Prof Ulrich Schneider

Principal investigator 

Professor of Many-body physics

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.070
Phone +44 (0) 1223 337239
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 Postdoctoral Research Associates

Dr Tiffany Harte

Senior Research Associate

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.072
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Dr Shengnan Zhang

Postdoc

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.088
Email 

 

Dr Yong-Guang Zheng

Postdoc

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.006
Phone +44 (0) 1223 766462
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Dr Jeremiah Mitchell

Postdoc

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.072
Email 

 

Dr Luca Donini

Postdoc

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.034
Phone +44 (0) 1223 766298
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Dr Sompob Shanokprasith

Postdoc

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.034
Phone +44 (0) 1223 766298
Email

 PhD students

 

Leanne Reeve

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.006
Phone +44 (0) 1223 766464
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Daniel Braund

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.034
Phone +44 (0) 1223 766298
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Michael Hsu

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.086
Email

Tobias Marozsak

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.034
Phone +44 (0) 1223 766298
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Mariame Karzazi

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.088
Email

 

Noam Mouelle

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.086
Email

Chelsea (Zhuoxian) Ou

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.006
Phone +44 (0) 1223 766462
Email

Yijun Tang

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.086
Email

Jiajun Chen

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.086
Email

 

Julian Scheper

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.088
Email

 

Qijun (Michael) Wu

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.006
Phone +44 (0) 1223 766462
Email

Liam Crane

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.034
Phone +44 (0) 1223 766298
Email

Ben Millward

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.088
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Baptiste Lerat

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.006
Email

Georgios Xenikakis

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.034
Email

Yuchen Zhang

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.006
Email

 

Isaac Nicol

PhD student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.008
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 Master's and Visiting students

Chen Lu

MPhil student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.086
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Jinhuang (John) Chen

MPhil student

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre B3.086
Email

 Technical Staff

  

Dr Stephen Topliss

Electronics Workshop Technician

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Lab, AMOP group
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0US, UK

Office Ray Dolby Centre E1.009
Phone +44 (0) 1223 766761
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Former members

Postdoctoral Research Associates

  Current affiliation Contact
Dr Kimberly Tkalcec    
Dr Mehedi Hasan    
Dr Bo Song    

PhD Students

  Current affiliation Contact
Dr Emmanuel Gottlob    
Dr Georgia Nixon    
Dr Jr-Chiun Yu    
Dr Shaurya Bhave    
Dr Dan Reed ColdQuanta UK Website
Dr Max Melchner Postdoc in the Bloch group at MPI for quantum optics Website
Dr Ed Carter Trainee patent attorney at Marks & Clerk Website
Dr Matteo Sbroscia Postdoc at Jet Propulsion Laboratory

 & Website

Dr Konrad Viebahn  

Postdoc in the Esslinger group at ETH Zurich  Website

Master's Students

  Current affiliation Contact
Bhavana Panchumarthi    
David Gröters    
Moritz Epping    
Tim Rein    
Brian Bostwick    
Zach Eyler    
Xintong Su PhD student in the Groß group at Tübingen University Website
Maurice Zeuner    
Vanessa Koh Research Assistant at CQT, Singapore Website
Damien Bloch PhD student in the Browaeys group at Institut d'optique Website
Florian Störtz PhD student in the Minary Group at Oxford University Website
Michael Höse    PhD student in the Kubanek Group at Ulm University Website
Hendrik von Raven    PhD student at LMU Munich/MPQ (Germany) Website
Oliver Brix    

Latest news

Thirty years of Bose–Einstein condensation

1 December 2025

It was 30 years ago that the first BECs were created in alkali atoms. This was not only the culmination of decades of work and development, for instance in laser cooling, but was the beginning of our exciting and still-growing field! We congratulate and celebrate in this News & Views for Nature: Nature 647 , 860-861 (...

PRX Quantum: Quantized Transport in Disordered Systems Without Gaps

28 June 2025

Topology in condensed matter physics refers to global properties of a system’s quantum states that remain stable under continuous deformations, like stretching or bending — but not tearing. Unlike conventional phases of matter, topological phases are protected by more abstract, global properties, such as Chern numbers...

Nature: Observing the 2D Bose glass

13 September 2024

Our work on observing the 2D Bose glass in our optical quasicrystal has been published in Nature: Observing the two-dimensional Bose glass in an optical quasicrystal Jr-Chiun Yu, Shaurya Bhave, Lee reeve, Bo Song, Ulrich Schneider Nature 633 , 338–343 (2024). Press release on the Department of Physics Webpage : Physicists...

Individual tunnelling control in optical lattices

9 September 2024

Optical lattices are power quantum simulators with many applications in e.g. strongly-correlated and topological systems. However, up to now, they were limited in programmability since typically all tunnelling links were of the same strength. In this new paper, we show theoretically how local control over individual...

Cold atoms and molecules for fundamental physics Conference

1 August 2024

Last week we had the pleasure of hosting 85 scientists for our ICAP satellite conference on Cold Atoms and Molecules for Fundamental Physics in Cambridge. Many thanks to all the speakers, poster presenters and participants for 3 days of inspiring discussions! Cold atoms and molecules for fundamental physics - ICAP satellite