Kai Phillip Schmidt
Career
| From 11/23 | Chair for Theoretical Physics |
| From 07/23 | Speaker of the FAU Profile Center Light.Matter.QuantumTechnologies |
| 10/22-09/24 | Deputy Head of the Department Physik at FAU |
| From 01/21 | Vice-Speaker of the CRC-TR 306 QuCoLiMa |
| From 01/21 | Head Integrated Research Training Group of the CRC-TR 306 QuCoLiMa |
| 10/20-09/22 | Head of the Department Physik at FAU |
| 2019 | Co-Founder of the Physics Diversity Network (PHYDINE) |
| 10/18-09/19 | Women Representative of the Department Physik at FAU |
| From 04/16 | Professor for Theoretical Physics at FAU |
| 02/08-03/16 | EURYI Fellow at the TU Dortmund |
| 09/05-01/08 | Postdoc at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne with Dr. A. Läuchli and Prof. F. Mila |
| 11/04-09/05 | Postdoc at the Universität zu Köln with Prof. G.S. Uhrig (Universität Dortmund) and Prof. E. Müller-Hartmann |
| 11/04 | PhD thesis; Title:„Spectral Properties of Quasi One-dimensional Quantum Antiferromagnets – Perturbative Continuous Unitary Transformations“ supervised by Prof. G.S. Uhrig, Universität zu Köln |
Scholarships, Awards and Fellowships
| 2025 | Teaching Award (Preis für gute Lehre), Department Physik, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 2024 | Teaching Award of the Faculty of Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 2023 | Renate-Wittern-Sterzel-Prize 2023 as Co-Organisator of the DIPHER22 conference, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 2018 | Teaching Award (Preis für gute Lehre), Department Physik, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 2014 | Teaching Award (Lehrpreis) 2014 der TU Dortmund |
| 2009 | Innovationspreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen |
| 2009 | Board member of the Junges Kolleg der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste |
| 2007 | European Young Investigator (EURYI) Award |
| 1997 | DAAD scholarship to study at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
Studies
| 2000 | Diploma; Title of the Diploma thesis:“Magnetically Driven Quantum Phase Transitions In Itinerant Electron Systems“ under the supervision of Professor Hartmut Monien |
| 1997 | Physics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 1996 | Prediploma in Physics |
| 1995 | Mathematics at the Friedrich-Wilhelm Universität Bonn |
| 1994 | Physics at the Friedrich-Wilhelm Universität Bonn |